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I grew up on a farm in small-town Missouri, so my characters and stories reflect this life and hopefully pay homage to the country life and all that goes with it, including the rain on tin roofs, old trucks with holes in the floorboards and summer nights full of stars, fireflies and tractor pulls! (less)Ī place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. As with everything, you've got to keep at it if you want it!Īdditionally, I write stories about what I know. And both the imagination and the endurance have helped immensely in my writing career-especially the endurance. So, if it flooded there, we figured we'd build an ark! I probably got my endurance from that part of my life. We moved to the next small town over (my dad's old stomping grounds) and planted ourselves on top of a pretty big hill. There wasn't much to do, so I literally had to make up things to do! In 1993, my family and I lost our home in a flood and called it quits farming the river bottoms. And I'm pretty sure I got my imagination at this stage in my life. The population of the town was about 200, but I lived outside that town in the river bottoms. The population of the town was about 200, but I lived outside that town in the river …more Until I was ten, I lived in a tiny town along the Missouri River. Laura Miller Until I was ten, I lived in a tiny town along the Missouri River.
