Laura Hilton Craner

LAURA HILTON CRANER {[email protected]} is a ghostwriter, teacher, poet, essayist, and wannabe novelist. Having written for corporations big and small, for entrepreneurs and lawyers and chiropractors and others, work under her own name can be found in places like Segullah, A Motley Vision, and The Wilderness Interface Zone.

Review: The Making of a Hard, Then Softened Heart in The Book of Laman Mette Harrison. The Book of Laman

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 4

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Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 1

Between Silver Linings and Clouds | Abel Keogh, Room for Two

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 3

Why is it that so many Mormon books seem to focus on the silver lining and ignore the cloud? Mormon books—especially memoirs and biographies—would benefit from a little more time in the rumblings of the rain cloud. So many stories, characters, and ideas are shortchanged because writers or publishers, who often claim that they are simply giving the market what they want, are too quick to jump to the happy ending. Considering the narrative price that is exacted, it’s surprising that so many readers, writers, and publishers are so intent on playing Pollyanna.