Lara Zielin

Lara Zielin is a published author, editor, and founder of Author Your Life, a website by the same name as her novel. View Lara's feature poster [PDF].

What do you write?

“All the things! I’m a published young-adult and romance author, and I recently tried my hand at nonfiction. I have a draft of an historical fiction manuscript collecting dust under my bed, and I’d love to revisit that genre. I also do copywriting and communications for my day jobs, so I feel like my pencil is always moving. That’s part of the fun though. I love trying out new things and seeing where the words take me.”

Why do you write?

“What we write has power. Putting pen to paper is a transformative exercise. It’s so commonplace that I think we don’t really realize what an impact it has. But writing can fundamentally and tangibly change things.”

What is the most memorable thing you have written?

“At the start of 2018, I began an experiment to test whether writing about the life I wanted to have could actually help it come to pass. I began a book I unimaginatively titled Lara’s Life. Every day I wrote about myself like a character in the third person, and I wrote about the things I wanted to have happen to this person. After a year of doing this, my life was markedly different.”