LAURA STANFILL
A NEW RESOURCE
FOR WRITERS.
IMAGINE A DOOR explores the chasm between author expectations and publishing realities with a focus on committing to the page, building community, and setting reasonable expectations. Laura Stanfill, an author and small-press publisher, combines original reporting and personal stories in this affirmation of the creative life. Forthcoming in 2025 from Forest Avenue Press with financial support from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
COZY HISTORICAL FICTION
“Laura Stanfill’s Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary is a rollicking and tender family story of strong-hearted women, misguided fathers, and rebellious youth that leaps joyfully through generations. In a small village in France in 1838, Henri Blanchard is born into a family of music box makers, but his father hears him as a flat note. Henri and his best friend and partner-in-shenanigans Aimée are charming guides through a world of miracles and music and earthy humor, every sentence a burst of storytelling tremolo. I was entranced from the book’s overture right through to the final coda.”
—Joanna Rose, author of A Small Crowd of Strangers
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