Laurel Collins has always wanted to write books and travel in time. Writing historical fiction allows her to do both. She is the author of a dozen traditionally-published historical romance titles, which includes three under her “Catherine Wyatt” pen name, and altogether, over a quarter of a million copies sold.
A native Chicagoan, Laurel lives with her husband in one of the city’s western suburbs. Over the past twenty years, they’ve spent their vacations traveling through Europe together – sampling the history, culture, and the food – while she collected ideas for future books.
When not writing, you’ll find Laurel haunting genealogy websites to fill in the missing branches on her family tree (which currently contains over 3,000 relatives, going back as far as five hundred years); or researching obscure historical facts for the latest book she’s working on; or visiting with her children and grandchildren. As with so many women before her, age and experience have led her from romance to murder (the fictional kind, of course); and she recently completed her first historical mystery, set in Gilded Age Chicago, which she is currently marketing.
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