Welcome to my new website. I’m looking forward to sharing with my friends, family, and readers more about myself, my books, and my experiences as an author.

My name is Laura Catherine Rader. I earned a BA in psychology from San Diego State University, where I minored in history and took creative writing and literature classes. I drew on those passions in my thirty-year career as a history and English teacher of elementary and middle school students.

Now, I’m retired, and a full-time historical fiction writer. When not writing, enjoy researching my genealogy, attending neighborhood book club meetings, taking forest walks with my Rough Collie, and visiting my adult daughter in Brooklyn. Originally from California, I now live twenty miles north of Raleigh, North Carolina. 

Fiction allows both author and reader to walk in someone else’s shoes. Historical fiction allows us to time travel. That is why it appeals to me.