Laura Kamoie

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Laura Kamoie
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BornAugust 27, 1970 Edit this on Wikidata (age 51)

Laura Crogan Kamoie (born August 27, 1970) is an American historian and author. She writes historical fiction under her own name and romance under the name Laura Kaye.

Life and academic career[]

She was born Laura A. Crogan on August 27, 1970 in Hagerstown, Maryland. A first-generation college student, she graduated from Dickinson College in 1992.[1] At Dickinson, she met Brian Kamoie, later an official in the Obama administration and they married in 1996.[2]

Kamoie earned a PhD in early American history from the College of William and Mary. Kamoie wrote two works focusing on the economic activity of the slaveholding colonial Tayloe family of Virginia. Neabsco and Occoquan: The Tayloe Family Iron Plantations, 1730-1830 (2003) won the Prince William County Historical Commission Dissertation Award. Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1860 (2007) was published by the University of Virginia Press.[3]

Kamoie worked as a historical archaeologist for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, served as senior editor of Washington History, the journal of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., and worked as project manager of the Adams Morgan Heritage Trail, where she wrote Roads to Diversity: The Adams Morgan Heritage Trail.[3]

Kamoie was a professor of history at American University from 2000 to 2005 and the US Naval Academy from 2005 to 2013.[3]

Novelist[]

In 2008, Kamoie suffered what has been described as a "mild traumatic brain injury". While recovering, Kamoie felt a creative urge, taking guitar lessons, changing her taste in music, and writing a novel inspired by the Twilight series in 11 weeks.[4][5] Success came relatively quickly, and in 2012 she sold her "Hard Ink" series, featuring a group of ex-military conducting covert operations out of a tattoo parlor, to Avon, subsidiary of HarperCollins, for a six figures.[6] The next year she left teaching to write full time. Kamoie describes her work under the name Laura Kaye as "romantic suspense and contemporary and erotic romance."[7]

In 2016, she published her first work of historical fiction under her own name, co-authored with . America's First Daughter, about President Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph.

Bibliography[]

as Laura Kamoie[]

  • Neabsco and Occoquan: The Tayloe Family Iron Plantations, 1730-1830, Prince William Historical Commission (Prince William, VA), 2003.
  • Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1860, University of Virginia Press (Charlottesville, VA), 2007.
  • (With Stephanie Dray) America's First Daughter (novel), William Morrow (New York, NY), 2016.

as Laura Kaye[]

  • Forever Freed, self-published, 2011.
  • Just Gotta Say, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.
  • Dare to Resist, Entangled Publishing (Fort Collins, CO), 2014.
  • (With others) Premiere (collection), Romance Writers of America, Incorporated (Houston, TX), 2015.
  • Ride Hard, Avon (New York, NY), 2016.

Hearts of the Anemoi series (as Laura Kaye)[]

  • North of Need, Entangled Publishing (Fort Collins, CO), 2012.
  • West of Want, Entangled Publishing (Fort Collins, CO), 2012.
  • South of Surrender, Entangled Publishing (Fort Collins, CO), 2013.
  • East of Ecstasy, Entangled Publishing (Fort Collins, CO), 2014.

Hard Ink series (as Laura Kaye)[]

  • Hard as It Gets, Avon (New York, NY), 2013.
  • Hard as You Can, Avon (New York, NY), 2014.
  • Hard to Hold On To (novella), Avon (New York, NY), 2014.
  • Hard to Come By, Avon (New York, NY), 2014.
  • Hard to Be Good, Avon (New York, NY), 2015.
  • Hard to Let Go, Avon (New York, NY), 2015.
  • Hard as Steel, Evil Eye Concepts, 2015.
  • Hard Ever After, Avon (New York, NY), 2016.
  • Hard to Serve (e-book novella), Evil Eye Concepts, 2016.

Heroes series (as Laura Kaye)[]

  • Her Forbidden Hero, Entangled Publishing (Fort Collins, CO), 2012.
  • One Night with a Hero, Entangled Publishing (Fort Collins, CO), 2014.

Hearts in Darkness Duets series (as Laura Kaye)[]

  • Hearts in Darkness, self-published, 2013.
  • Love in the Light, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.

Vampire Warrior Kings series (as Laura Kaye)[]

  • In the Service of the King, Harlequin Nocturne Cravings (Don Mills, Ontario Canada), 2012.
  • Seduced by the Vampire King, Harlequin Nocturne Cravings (Don Mills, Ontario Canada), 2012.
  • Taken by the Vampire, Harlequin Nocturne Cravings (Don Mills, Ontario Canada), 2013

References[]

  1. ^ Hoffman, Kate. "Volunteer Spotlight: Laura Croghan '92". www.dickinson.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  2. ^ Davidson, Lauren. "Meet the Trustees". www.dickinson.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Laura Croghan Kamoie." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2016. Gale In Context: Biography. Accessed 20 May 2021.
  4. ^ Newman, Meredith. "The accidental author: Former Naval Academy professor explores the life of Thomas Jefferson's daughter". capitalgazette.com. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  5. ^ Writer, By THERESA WINSLOW, Staff. "Naval Academy professor has second career as best-selling novelist". capitalgazette.com. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  6. ^ Deahl, Rachel. "Avon romances Laura Kaye." Publishers Weekly, vol. 259, no. 40, 1 Oct. 2012, p. 10. Gale In Context: Biography. Accessed 20 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Laura Kaye, Author | About & FAQs". Laura Kaye. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
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