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Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
Author, reader, editor, teacher and all-around reprobate
Do You Have A Website?
www.lauratoops.com
About Me:
Laura Mazzuca Toops is a Chicago-based writer with more than 20 years of professional experience. Her writing, editing, and reporting activities include stints at Chicago's legendary City News Bureau and Crain Communications, as well as freelance work for numerous publications including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, West Suburban Living magazine, Lake magazine, and other local, regional and national publications. Toops also worked for five years as a film critic for a Chicago monthly entertainment magazine.

Her short works of fiction have been published in local magazines. Toops has four books in print: A Native's Guide to Chicago's Western Suburbs (Lake Claremont Press), The Latham Loop, Slapstick (Amber Quill Press), and Hudson Lake (Twilight Times Books).
Favorite Books:
too many to name!
Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
Centuries and Sleuths in Forest Park, Ill.

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At 9:12am on September 21, 2007, June Sproat said…
Hi Laura,
I'm a fellow Chicago area writer. Nice to meet you!

June
At 2:23pm on September 2, 2007, LynnVoedisch said…
I re-enrolled under my real name and would appreciate it if you'd be my "friend" for this account. I'm going to eliminate "humblescribe."

Lynn
At 4:11pm on July 8, 2007, Juliet Waldron said…
HI, Laura: Glad you could make it--nice to SEE your smiling face at last. Hope this will prove to be a good place to network and share your work -- The Latham Loop was a fascinating read. Best wishes!
At 11:43pm on June 25, 2007, Morgan Mandel said…
Hi Laura,
Welcome to Book Place.
I hope you have a great time & spread the word!
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