Announcing the Laurie Devine Author Blog!

Announcing the Laurie Devine Author Blog!



Welcome to my world!


I hope it soon will be your world as well!

A world of storytelling adventures, these family sagas of brave and bold women!

Dazzling worlds of beauty and passion, death and dreams! 

Stories told, not so incidentally by another brave and bold woman – that’s me, Laurie Devine! – who wrote

these stories nearly fifty years ago when I was a young truth-teller eager to share the mostly untold tales behind

the headlines in the war-torn Mideast and the Greek homelands.  I lived in these countries, and l loved these people. 

I came home to America, after decades in Europe and Asia and Africa, with five long standalone novels I love

like the children never had:

Kronos about Greece.  Nile about Egypt and Israel.  Crescent about Lebanon.  Saudi about Arabia.  Cypress about Cyprus.

All have been previously published successfully, in Europe. Yet not in my homeland. Not here!

But now, over the next year, many—for the first time—will finally be published in my own country. 

Meantime, like most people, lots of good and bad stuff happened to me, and now, near the end of my life,

at the age of 78, I am paying to publish digital editions of my books.

I’ll be sharing with you right here not only my fictional stories, but my own life stories (which are pretty good, too).


But first, let me raise a glass and toast second chances and lives well lived, for all of us, we daring women,

and the much-maligned Boomers, too, including my brothers of all genders, who marched against racism,

and for women’s equality and gay rights, and for peace and justice.  You, and your children, and your children’s

children will love my stories.  


Enjoy!   





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