L.D.Laird is a retired Air Force and Army illustrator, media photographer, and former art teacher. Originally from Kentucky, she now resides in Delaware writing tall tails for family members of all ages- both young and old. Her style harkens back to the classic adventure tales of old that inspired the imaginations and sense of adventure we experienced in our youth. These stories are loosely based on the style of the golden classics of our youth.
Humorous illustrations and madcap adventures are the heart of the stories that Laird weaves to entertain those who are young at heart
In progress or available on Authors website
Doc. Cost was an Archeologist down who had hit rock bottom. Laughed at by collages for his theories, and stranded in South America, he’d been reduced to working for an unsavory company with black market connections to survive. When he stumbles on a discovery that could prove all his theories right, he must protect its discovery from the black-market thieves who brutalize the natives and rob unprotected dig sites, until he can get a real research team in to excavate the site. Too bad, his former black-market foreman has been tracking all his movements without his knowledge because what he has discovered could change history.
They thought he was just another Lost Boy, but Everard was a whole lot more. Stranded in Neverland through a one-way portal gate, he needed to find a way home to rescue his country and his bride to be from the destructive plans of the wizard who trapped him. Unbeknownst to him, his bride had been transformed into a cat that fled to Neverland. Not only that, but she also thought Everard was responsible. With the help of Pan, the Lost Boys, two humans, and an assortment of magical oddballs, they must find another portal to reach home before the wizard destroys all the fairy kingdoms.
Peter Panning was eighty years old and lonely. He had some odd memories too. He thought he had betrayed a fairy, but fairies aren’t real, are they? He might be crazy, but he decides to find that fairy and apologize before he passes into the great beyond. How does one find a magical creature in a modern world that doesn’t believe in fairies. Follow Peter as his search for Tink leads him on a very strange adventure where he discovers that his past has been waiting for him.
A rhyming picture Book: Little Bert loves getting dirty and making messes, but much to his parent’s distress, he hates bathing and cleaning up. Sometimes being a dirty mess is fun. But if you are never clean you can attract the wrong kind of attention, especially if you’re playing in the wrong place. Available on Amazon
