Author: Laurie Marr Wasmund

Laurie Marr Wasmund is the author of My Heart Lies Here, a novel of the Ludlow Massacre; Clean Cut, A Romance of the Western Heart; and the White Winter Trilogy, which is set in Colorado during the Great War and the 1920s. The third book of the Trilogy, To Walk Humbly, was a 2020 finalist for the Mainstream/Literary book award from the Colorado Authors League. It also received a 2020 EVVY third place award in Historical Fiction from the Colorado Independent Publishers Association. She is the current Vice President and Membership Chair of Colorado Authors League. Visit her website at https://lostranchbooks.com/ or her Amazon Author Central page at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Laurie-Marr-Wasmund/author/B00IVTLMCM

‘Twas a Dark and Stormy Night: Creating Micro-Tension

Posted on April 26, 2024April 25, 2024 by Laurie Marr Wasmund

Every work of fiction is fueled by some grand conflict or tension, but on the paragraph-to-paragraph level, the story gains momentum through micro-tension. Author Donald Maass states: “Micro-tension is the moment-by-moment tension that keeps the reader in a constant state of suspense over what will happen, not in the story but in the next few…

PICTURING HISTORY: Finding Stories in Photographs

Posted on March 29, 2024March 26, 2024 by Laurie Marr Wasmund

When I wrote my historical novel, My Heart Lies Here, I did as much research as I could about the Ludlow Massacre in Trinidad, Colorado. The Ludlow Massacre took place in 1914 when the United Mine Workers of America organized a strike of the coal miners of John D. Rockefeller’s Colorado Fuel & Iron Company….