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About Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn is a former model who lives in London, Ontario with her husband and their four children. She is the author of three young adult novels: Firsts, Last Girl Lied To, and All Eyes On Her, under the name L.E. Flynn.
Her adult fiction debut, The Girls Are All So Nice Here, was named a USA Today Best Book of 2021 and became an instant bestseller in Canada. It has sold in 11 territories worldwide and been optioned for television by AMC.
When she’s not writing, you can likely find her hiking in the woods, perusing thrift stores for vintage dresses, or bingeing on reality TV.
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Blog postWith All Eyes On Her releasing in five weeks (!!), I’m excited to reveal the preorder campaign! To say that these are a few of my favorite things is an understatement…
This book is out on 8/18, and all preorders, orders, and library requests through 9/1 are eligible for the preorder campaign. Please send your name, address, and proof of purchase to laurie@laurieelizabethflynn.com to enter!
Everyone gets:
Signed bookmarks (design coming soon!)
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Blog postI’m so thrilled to be able to share this news! My adult debut, The Girls Are All So Nice Here, will be published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster in the US and Canada, HQ (a division of Harper Collins) in the UK, and in various territories and languages around the world. It has also been optioned for TV by AMC, the home of some of my favorite shows (including Breaking Bad and Mad Men)! This has all been incredibly surreal and still feels like a dream a lot of the time. I’m beyond grateful for2 years ago Read more
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Blog postIt’s time for what has become my annual blog post recapping the year that just happened, and my goals for the year to come. I like to find a word to describe the year we are leaving and an intention for the one we are entering.
2019 was, undoubtedly, the Dream Year. And my word for 2020? Mindful.
I wrote in last year’s blog post that I had worked very hard in 2018 to set myself up for success in 2019. And, well, that strategy worked. I can’t say too much (publishing is like Gr3 years ago Read more -
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Blog postWell, it’s safe to say that I haven’t blogged in a very long time. I had every intention of updating this site on a monthly basis, but I failed to make time for it. Sorry, blog! Although I had some very good reasons, so stay tuned for those…
I’m not the biggest fan of saying “I just don’t have time for that.” Prior to this year, I found myself saying it all the time and blaming my busy schedule when I couldn’t commit. But what I’ve found recently is that if something is importan4 years ago Read more -
Blog postI haven’t been blogging much lately (I have a very adorable reason in the form of my almost eight-month-old daughter!), but wanted to say a few things about my hopes for the coming year. Firstly, you might have noticed some layout and design changes to my website. I have been wanting to make adjustments for awhile, but recently committed to actually doing it. I’m proud to say that I revamped the site myself (with a bit of help from my hubby), and while that might not seem like a big4 years ago Read more
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Blog postThe brightest light of all!
This very possibly makes me sound old, but I’ve noticed that time really has started going by more quickly with each passing year. 2017 was a whirlwind for me, especially the latter half. It was a year of much change. I announced a new two-book deal for my YA psychological thrillers. My Firsts paperbacks came out in June. I finished writing an ambitious and very different new book that I’m excited about. I read a lot of books and wrote a lot of ne5 years ago Read more -
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Blog postI recently finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo after it was highly recommended by my lovely friend and CP. The wildly popular book operates on the principle that we should only keep things that spark joy, and discard the rest, which is simple in theory but extremely difficult in practice. As I read, I became uneasy thinking about the amount of things I own that spark zero joy. In fact, since I have so much stuff and not enough storage, a lot of things en5 years ago Read more
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Blog postWe give a lot of glory to the big milestones in this business. Finishing a draft, getting an agent, going on sub, announcing a book deal. The smaller wins get love too– things like writing each day, starting a new book on craft, or meeting a reading goal are celebrated. But sometimes what we fail to talk about as a community are those moments when we come close to giving up. The gritty underbelly of all of the good things tends to get glazed over with a 5 years ago Read more
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Blog postSometimes memories strike at random. Maybe it’s a smell or a taste or an article of clothing or a photo that Facebook shares with you that morning. And sometimes, memories are brought on by thinking about where you were, and who you were, ____ years ago.
Graduation night from Journalism school, thinking I had life figured out.
I was recently thinking about a time in my life that was almost 10 years ago exactly. I was waitressing full time, bobbing from one socia5 years ago Read more -
Blog postBaby’s first photo shoot! Photo credit to the talented Shirley Konu of SVH Designs!
Hi everyone! I’m taking a brief hiatus from my monthly update posts for a reason tiny in size but monumental in importance… the birth of my beautiful daughter, Astrid Doreen Lucille Flynn! She was born at 2:00 am on May 26, and the days since have been a total whirlwind. Everyone says time goes by crazy fast when you have a child, and I’m realizing that it’s not just a cliché… it’s very tru5 years ago Read more
Titles By Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
A lot has changed since Ambrosia Wellington graduated from college, and she’s worked hard to create a new life for herself. But then an invitation to her ten-year reunion arrives in the mail, along with an anonymous note that reads, “We need to talk about what we did that night.”
It seems Ambrosia’s past—and the people she thoughts she’d left there—aren’t as buried as she believed. Amb can’t stop fixating on what she did or who she did it with: larger-than-life Sloane “Sully” Sullivan, Amb’s former best friend, who could make anyone do anything.
At the reunion, Amb and Sully receive increasingly menacing messages, and it becomes clear that they’re being pursued by someone who wants more than just the truth of what happened that first semester. This person wants revenge for what they did and the damage they caused—the extent of which Amb is only now fully understanding. And it was all because of the game they played to get a boy who belonged to someone else and the girl who paid the price.
Alternating between the reunion and Amb’s freshman year, The Girls Are All So Nice Here is a “chilling and twisty” (Book Riot) “page-turner” (Entertainment Weekly) about the brutal lengths girls can go to get what they think they’re owed, and what happens when the games we play in college become matters of life and death.
Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and We Were Liars, All Eyes on Her by L.E. Flynn is a gripping young adult thriller told from the perspective of everyone except the alleged killer—a seventeen-year-old girl.
You heard the story on the news. A girl and a boy went into the woods. The girl carried a picnic basket. The boy wore bright yellow running shoes. The girl found her way out, but the boy never did…
Everyone thinks they know what happened. Some say Tabby pushed him off that cliff— she didn’t even like hiking. She was jealous. She had more than her share of demons. Others think he fell accidentally—she loved Mark. She would never hurt him…even if he hurt her.
But what’s the real story? All Eyes On Her is told from everyone but Tabby herself as the people in her life string together the events that led Tabby to that cliff. Her best friend. Her sister. Her enemy. Her ex-boyfriend. Because everybody thinks they know a girl better than she knows herself.
What do you think is the truth?
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Praise for Last Girl Lied To:
"Fans of E. Lockhart, Karen M. McManus, and Flynn’s other work will revel in this mystery/thriller and the authenticity with which its characters are rendered." —Booklist
"Fans of E. Lockhart, Karen M. McManus, and Flynn’s other work will revel in this mystery/thriller and the authenticity with which its characters are rendered." —Booklist
Something made him angry that night.
Something made her cry.
Something made Trixie disappear.
What if it was all the same thing?
Fiona claims she doesn’t remember anything about the night her best friend left a party early and walked into the ocean. But the truth is, she wishes she could forget.
Trixie’s disappearance is ruled a suicide, but Fiona starts to believe that Trixie isn’t really dead. Piecing together the trail of a girl who doesn't want to be found leads her to Jasper, Trixie’s former friend with benefits, and Beau—the boy who turned Fiona down, who loved someone else, who might be happy Trixie is gone.
The closer Fiona gets to finding out what happened, and the closer she gets to Jasper and Beau, the more she realizes that the girl she knew better than anyone may have been a carefully constructed lie—and she might have been waiting to disappear the entire time.
Told in alternating chapters between the past and the present, Last Girl Lied To is a gripping emotional thriller.
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Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom, but only if the guy fulfills a specific criteria: he has to be a virgin. Mercedes lets the boys get their awkward fumbling first times over with, and all she asks in return is that they give their girlfriends the perfect first time-the kind Mercedes never had herself.
Keeping what goes on in her bedroom a secret has been easy - so far. Her mother isn't home nearly enough to know about Mercedes' extracurricular activities, and her uber-religious best friend, Angela, won't even say the word "sex" until she gets married. But Mercedes doesn't bank on Angela's boyfriend finding out about her services and wanting a turn - or on Zach, who likes her for who she is instead of what she can do in bed.
When Mercedes' perfect system falls apart, she has to find a way to salvage her own reputation -and figure out where her heart really belongs in the process. Funny, smart, and true-to-life, Laurie Elizabeth Flynn's Firsts is a one-of-a-kind young adult novel about growing up.
DIX ANS PLUS TÔT, LEURS JEUX PERVERS ONT BRISÉ DES VIES. AUJOURD'HUI, C'EST À ELLES DE RENDRE DES COMPTES.
À leur retour sur le campus, dix ans après l'avoir quitté, deux anciennes amies
de fac réalisent que quelqu'un cherche à se venger de ce qu'elles y ont fait à l'époque – et que cette personne ne reculera devant rien pour arriver à ses fins.
Un thriller psychologique aussi subtil qu'efficace sur l'ambition, les amitiés toxiques et les désirs mortels. Un premier roman impressionnant et magistral.
Depuis qu'Ambrosia Wellington a quitté la fac, elle s'est donné beaucoup de mal pour s'inventer une nouvelle vie et laisser le passé derrière elle. Lorsqu'elle reçoit un mail l'invitant à la célébration des dix ans de sa promo, son instinct la pousse d'abord à refuser. Jusqu'à ce qu'arrive un étrange message anonyme : " Nous devons parler de ce que nous avons fait cette nuit-là. "
Les secrets qu'Ambrosia pensait enfouis ne le sont pas. Quelqu'un sait. Quelqu'un sait que l'amitié entre Ambrosia et l'extravagante Sloane "Sully' Sullivan les a poussées à jouer à des jeux de séduction de plus en plus troubles, de plus en plus pervers. Mais comment résister au charme vénéneux de Sully, capable de faire faire ce qu'elle voulait à toutes celles et tous ceux que ce charme envoûtait ?
De retour sur le campus, assaillies par les souvenirs et par les remords, Ambrosia et Sully reçoivent des messages de plus en plus menaçants. Celui ou celle qui les écrit ne cherche pas seulement à connaître la vérité, mais à se venger. À se venger de ce que les deux filles ont fait dix ans plus tôt, et dont Ambrosia réalise enfin toute la cruauté.
Alternant entre le récit du premier semestre d'Ambrosia sur le campus et celui de son retour dix ans plus tard, Nous étions les reines mêle thriller, tragédie, trouble et trahison pour décrire avec brio la brutalité et la perversité des jeux amoureux, à un âge où l'on ne réalise pas qu'il n'y a parfois qu'un souffle ténu entre l'amour et la mort.
DIX ANS PLUS TÔT, LEURS JEUX PERVERS ONT BRISÉ DES VIES. AUJOURD'HUI, C'EST À ELLES DE RENDRE DES COMPTES.
À leur retour sur le campus, dix ans après l'avoir quitté, deux anciennes amies
de fac réalisent que quelqu'un cherche à se venger de ce qu'elles y ont fait à l'époque – et que cette personne ne reculera devant rien pour arriver à ses fins.
Un thriller psychologique aussi subtil qu'efficace sur l'ambition, les amitiés toxiques et les désirs mortels. Un premier roman impressionnant et magistral.
Depuis qu'Ambrosia Wellington a quitté la fac, elle s'est donné beaucoup de mal pour s'inventer une nouvelle vie et laisser le passé derrière elle. Lorsqu'elle reçoit un mail l'invitant à la célébration des dix ans de sa promo, son instinct la pousse d'abord à refuser. Jusqu'à ce qu'arrive un étrange message anonyme : " Nous devons parler de ce que nous avons fait cette nuit-là. "
Les secrets qu'Ambrosia pensait enfouis ne le sont pas. Quelqu'un sait. Quelqu'un sait que l'amitié entre Ambrosia et l'extravagante Sloane "Sully' Sullivan les a poussées à jouer à des jeux de séduction de plus en plus troubles, de plus en plus pervers. Mais comment résister au charme vénéneux de Sully, capable de faire faire ce qu'elle voulait à toutes celles et tous ceux que ce charme envoûtait ?
De retour sur le campus, assaillies par les souvenirs et par les remords, Ambrosia et Sully reçoivent des messages de plus en plus menaçants. Celui ou celle qui les écrit ne cherche pas seulement à connaître la vérité, mais à se venger. À se venger de ce que les deux filles ont fait dix ans plus tôt, et dont Ambrosia réalise enfin toute la cruauté.
Alternant entre le récit du premier semestre d'Ambrosia sur le campus et celui de son retour dix ans plus tard, Nous étions les reines mêle thriller, tragédie, trouble et trahison pour décrire avec brio la brutalité et la perversité des jeux amoureux, à un âge où l'on ne réalise pas qu'il n'y a parfois qu'un souffle ténu entre l'amour et la mort.
Ein fesselnder Psycho-Thriller, auf wechselnden Zeitebenen erzählt!
Als Fiona die Außenseiterin Trixie kennenlernt, ist sie sofort von ihr fasziniert: immer mit neuen Haarfarben, neuen Outfits, neuen Ideen. Fiona verbringt ihre Zeit fast nur noch mit Trixie und ordnet sich ihr vollkommen unter. Dennoch hat sie das ungute Gefühl, nie ganz schlau aus ihr zu werden.
Und Fiona hat noch ein anderes Problem: Sie ist unsterblich in Beau verliebt – obwohl dieser sich vollkommen zurückgezogen hat, seit sein Bruder Toby vor einem Jahr auf mysteriöse Weise verschwunden ist und für tot erklärt wurde.
Dann verschwindet eines Nachts auch Trixie. Es gibt einen angeblichen Zeugen, der gesehen hat, wie sie ins Meer gegangen ist, immer tiefer, und ihr Tod wird als Selbstmord deklariert. Fiona kann das nicht glauben. Sind Trixie und Toby vielleicht beide noch am Leben und irgendwo zusammen? Und welche Rolle spielt Trixies Ex-Freund, der geheimnisvolle Jasper? Fiona fängt an nachzuforschen – und deckt nach und nach eine Lüge nach er anderen auf … Wem kann sie überhaupt noch trauen? Wer ist tot – und wer lebt?
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A diciassette anni, Mercedes Ayres ha le idee ben precise in fatto di sesso: la porta della sua camera da letto è aperta solo per ragazzi alla prima esperienza. Mercedes è pronta a indirizzarli e aiutarli, e in cambio chiede solo che rendano speciale la prima volta delle loro ragazze. Che sia una prima volta perfetta, quella che Mercedes non ha avuto. Fino ad ora mantenere il segreto su ciò che accade nella sua camera da letto è stato facile. La sua impegnatissima madre è sempre fuori durante il giorno e non immagina quali siano le attività extrascolastiche della figlia, e la sua migliore amica super religiosa, Angela, non si azzarda neanche a pronunciare la parola “sesso” prima del matrimonio… Ma ci sono cose che Mercedes non ha messo in conto: non avrebbe mai potuto prevedere, ad esempio, che proprio il fidanzato di Angela venisse da lei e le chiedesse un “trattamento speciale” in cambio del silenzio, o che qualcuno fosse attratto da lei per com’è e non per ciò che sa fare a letto… Quando la sua perfetta organizzazione va in frantumi, Mercedes dovrà darsi da fare per salvare la propria reputazione e anche per capire che posto dare al suo cuore…
Romantico, sexy, irriverente, coraggioso: First è un romanzo speciale come la prima volta
«Un esordio senza paura, intelligente e straziante. First. La mia prima volta rimarrà con voi a lungo dopo l’ultima pagina.»
Amanda
«Un debutto coraggioso. I lettori saranno pazzi di Mercedes, un personaggio originale, magnifico. Un libro da cui è impossibile staccarsi. Umorismo e sentimento ai massimi livelli!»
Lori
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Ha frequentato la scuola di giornalismo e in seguito ha lavorato come modella, professione che l’ha portata in giro per il mondo. Vive a London, in Ontario, con il marito e il suo chihuahua. First. La mia prima volta è il suo romanzo d’esordio.
En Milton High todos los chicos tienen algo en común, por muy diferentes que sean entre ellos. Empollones, deportistas, raperos, frikis y los que pasan desapercibidos... Ese algo en común tiene curvas y toda una historia detrás de su melancólica sonrisa: Mercedes Ayres.
Con un nombre extranjero y una familia que la tiene completamente olvidada (no conoció a su padre y su madre nunca habla con ella), Mercedes ha decidido ayudar a todas las chicas del instituto en su camino hacia la pérdida de la virginidad y evitar así que tengan una primera vez patética. ¿Cómo? Convirtiéndose ella misma en la «la primera vez» de todos esos chicos que están a punto de hacerlo con sus novias. Evan, Tobby, Jeremy... Mercedes parece obsesionada con la idea de que toda chica tiene que tener una primera vez perfecta y sin «riesgos».
Aunque la idea de Mercedes era que no pasaría de cinco chicos, llega a diez y en estos momentos se está acostando con el doce. Lo que al principio creía que era una acto de ayuda para que otras chicas no sufriesen lo que ella sufrió, se le va de las manos. Entonces se reencontrará con Zach, y Mercedes descubrirá que los sentimientos pueden ser más fuertes de lo que creía y que a veces es conveniente poner límites para poder vivir en libertad.