Award-winning and bestselling author Lauraine Snelling began living her dream to be a writer with her first published book for young adult readers, TRAGEDY ON THE TOUTLE, in 1982. She has since continued writing more horse books for young girls, adding historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction for adults and young readers to her repertoire. All told, she has over 80 books published.

Shown in her contemporary romances and women’s fiction, a hallmark of Lauraine’s style is writing about real issues of forgiveness, loss, domestic violence, and cancer within a compelling story. Her work has been translated into Norwegian, Danish and German, and she has won the Romantic Times Career Achievement award for Inspirational Fiction, the Silver Angel Award for AN UNTAMED LAND and a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart for SONG OF LAUGHTER.

As a sought after speaker, Lauraine encourages others to find their gifts and live their lives with humor and joy. Her readers clamor for more books more often, and Lauraine would like to comply...if only her paintbrushes and easel didn’t call quite so loudly.

Lauraine and her husband, Wayne, have two grown sons, and live in the Tehachapi Mountains with a watchdog Basset named Winston. They love to travel, most especially in their 40-foot motor coach, which they affectionately deem “a work in progress”.

Books by Lauraine Snelling

On Hummingbird Wings

by Lauraine Snelling

One Perfect Day

by Lauraine Snelling

Breaking Free

by Lauraine Snelling - Christian, Fiction

Bestselling author Lauraine Snelling crafts a poignant story of hope and restoration for a newly paroled mother rebuilding her life after the loss of her son. Maggie Roberts is starting over again after her reckless driving led to a 10-year prison sentence and the devastating loss of her son.