Laurel Brunner

You have found Laurel Brunner, but I am really Laurel Lindström. I have had a successful and rewarding career as a technical journalist and as Laurel Brunner wrote the Internet for Beginners, a technical explanation of the basics of the internet and how it came about. It is ranked an astonishing 3,442,925 out of over 6,000,000 books on Amazon. I would have thought it way lower. And a book celebrating 25 years of digital printing and 30 years of Xeikon, one of the founders along with HP Indigo, of the digital colour printing press came out in 2018 and is only available from www.xeikon.com.

Countless technical articles and reports and general graphics industry guff have brought me here. And now I am writing fiction, starting with the Draftsman. Unbound will publish this novel in 2020. I am working on another book and a series of stories about bees. As to who I really am, I am not sure ,but Laurel Lindström’s shape is borne of:

Laughter

Scent of roses, lupins, lillies of the valley

New baby sister in a sunlit yellow room

Live jazz at 2am

Building a snow woman; planting a pear tree

Satch the cat

Being uprooted

A German schoolroom with no words

Anger and a stranger who never left

Passing the 11+

Silent in a Brooklyn school

Kota, caseri, lachano, Greece and Greeks

Cold, hungry, friendless

Alone “you can be in our group but we’re not your friends”

Sex

Spite, meanness, fights

Power of driving

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

UCLA and persistence

Unmatchable wonder of a child called Hannah

Sweden and dancing with a stranger

Learning to be loved

Horses, music, books, work, obsessions, family, laughter and chocolate