hi, I’m Laura
I run Ceremony, a creative and editorial practice. My work is guided by the seasons, celestial and earthly.
I see storytelling as a way to dream together with the more than human world and I use ritual to deepen these relationships.
ceremony
Ceremony is a space for writers who want to dream new worlds into being and to cultivate pleasure in their fictional creations.
I help writers to complete their most ambitious books. You can read more about my clients’ books here, and hear interviews with many of them on the Ceremony podcast.
If you would like to work with me on your dream project, you can contact me on Reedsy.
If you want to infuse your writing practice with magic, you can explore my collection of essays, rituals, and experiments, sign up for the Ceremony newsletter, or listen to the Ceremony podcast.
books
“A frightening fairytale, surreal, not the story you think you know. A book that reads like a spell, meant to be read slowly. It unfolds like a strange dream, and the nightmare. A book I still think about years after reading it.” Kirin Khan
On Christmas night, a small girl is crowned at a pageant, before stumbling into the snowy darkness, alone, to meet her greatest fan. Set in Rosewood’s forest, the “creeping liquefaction” of the dead produces a fungal harvest that casts a spell on the town. In the endless dark of winter, feral creatures thrive, and psychedelic spores infect the air. The Museum of Atheism, deep below ground, is full of hallucinatory terrors.
“A fierce and deadly little fantasia that bites its way deep into your brain.” Brian Evenson
THE LUMINOL REELS takes its imagery from pornography, Catholicism, and crime scene investigation to interrogate the violence done to women. It considers the ongoing brutality of the femicides in Ciudad Juarez and the institutional misogyny of the Catholic Church. Violence is intrinsically linked to location, and the shrines, quinceañera parties, holy communions, and seances of this book are all stained luminescent blue.
“This book will forever change how you read about violence.” Nicola Maye Goldberg
When human blood reacts with luminol, it lights up a ghostly blue. This reaction, most commonly used to detect whether violence has taken place at suspected crime scenes, combines the human and the chemical, it invokes violence but also transformation.
interviews and discussions
Playlist at Largehearted Boy
Research Notes at Necessary Fiction
‘Scorpio Rising: Gothic Hybridity and the Occult: a Discussion with James Pate’ at 3AM Magazine
‘Rituals for Creative Writing + Unearthing Our Deepest Stories’ at Living Open Podcast
‘Talking about Tarot, Creativity, and Writing’ at The Life of Tarot Podcast.