About the Author: Lauresa Tomlinson

Lauresa was born in the U.S.A. and started telling stories to entertain those around her at a very early age. She is the mother of six and the grandmother of seven. She has lived in nearly all of the states in the USA and, for a short time, lived in Mexico and Canada.

While taking a few part-time classes at a local JC, she was told she needed to start writing down her stories. One of those classes was a SiFi writing class. The final was to write a story. She asked how long, thinking that the one in her head would be maybe five pages. That story ended up being a trilogy known as "Elaytay's Adventurers in Space and Time. She said that she had only written about three pages when the story came alive, and at times it was like watching a movie, and at other times it was like being in the movie. The conversations were typed in as fast as she could type. She said it was a lot of fun. Then her teacher said it was time to turn it in, so she ended part one quickly with, "She got on her ship and went home". She was told she needed to finish the story by her teacher, and she did. Part three is a collection of travels, and each chapter is a different story. When Elaytay got back home, she found that her planet had learned how to time travel.

At this point, Lauresa is the author and illustrator of 14 books available worldwide.

When asked what her goal was for writing, she said she had a few. One was to see imagination stay alive and well in a good and productive space because imagination is the base of tomorrow’s world. She also hopes people enjoy the stories, and when enough books sell, she can see another dream come true. And that is to help with housing for the poor. She tells people that Love, Laughter, and Learning keep one young.