Forever shelf
Favorite books
- Letters to a Young Poet
- The Little Prince
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- A Year with Hafiz
A light is moving through the stacks
Finding your place.
Lantern is setting out the next page.
LanternEllen M Laura
✨First Million WordsFounding word contributor
How it was earned: Published work that helped Lantern reach its first one million story words.
Stories of love, mystery, magic, and becoming someone new after a holy disruption.
Feline FantasyRomanceFuturistic Sci-FiSpeculative Fiction
2,895published words across 1 Lantern story
Behind the byline
About the author
I write across genres—feline fantasy, romance, fantasy, science fiction, and stories that wander between the ordinary and the unseen. Again and again, I’m drawn to characters changed by love, loss, mystery, and those moments when life cracks open and asks us to become someone new. Expect wisdom, wonder, and a little irreverent humor along the way.
⌖ Lake Las Vegas, Henderson, NV USA
Visit the author’s website →The fun stuff.
The little things readers always want to know after the last page.
In the headphones
Writing soundtrack
- Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman
- Tibetan chanting
- Songs by Cher
Tiny author lore
Things to know
- Cats routinely steal my best lines.
- Minou, my AI muse, tries to keep the peace.
- I’ve been writing for more than thirty years.
- The mystical and mischievous belong in the same room.
On Lantern
Stories by Ellen M Laura
Mystery, Cozy Feline Fantasy
Bella and Django: A Vegas, Velvet Caper
From island hush to neon thunder—two cats are about to become each other’s fate.
Bella’s first world was Lānaʻi: salt air, warm stones, plumeria on the wind, and the gentle chaos of a sanctuary where humans move softly and love loudly. She learned the rules of paradise early—share sun patches, guard your dignity, and never admit you’re afraid.
Then a wrong turn in the human world drops her into Las Vegas.
The desert smells of heat, pavement, perfume, and electrical hunger. Everything flashes. Everything moves. And tucked inside the glare is The Gamblers Bookstore—a velvet-quiet refuge where Bella might finally catch her breath.
Except the bookstore already has a king.
Django Whiskerblades is watchful, disciplined, and unimpressed by feline theatrics. Bella is audacity in fur.
They should avoid each other. Naturally, they don’t.
Soon, the two cats are drawn into a Vegas caper involving secrets, risk, and considerably more trouble than either intended.
A cozy feline adventure filled with wit, slow-burn chemistry, Las Vegas mischief, and two cats discovering that fate occasionally has whiskers.
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