L. A. Nolan

L.A. Nolan was born in Toronto, making him the first Canadian-born member of his family, whose roots are set firmly in Liverpool, England. Throughout his life, his restlessness encouraged extensive travel to many countries, and in 2012, he finally settled in India.

Motorcycling became the primary focus. He joined a club and crisscrossed the country with reckless abandon, several times. He dabbled in acting and landed a few small roles in Bollywood productions such as Aiyaary, alongside Sidharth Malhotra, and, Bose – Dead or Alive, with Sanjay Gurbaxani and for many years, he was also the frontman of a successful rock and roll band playing the club circuit in New Delhi. Then, after breaking several bones on a desolate mountainside during a motorcycle ride, Nolan focused solely on his true passion of storytelling.

Nolan has published eighteen short stories that have been included in various anthologies and magazines since 2018. His short story, The Peddler & the Crow, won the Indian Writing Projects grand prize in 2023, and his short Story as the Banyan Tree Wept was short listed by IFP in 2024. Most recently, his novella Luna Hortus – 2336 won the Westland IF competition and is included in their anthology Between Worlds.

His first novel Memoirs of a Motorcycle Madman released in 2018, is a humorous collection of his motorcycle blogs that detailed his years travelling the country. In October of 2021, he released his debut crime thriller fiction novel, Blood & Brown Sugar. It was voted Best Fiction Novel 2021 by Literary Voice Magazine and awarded Best Crime Thriller 2021 by the SRG Lit Awards. Lee was also recognised by Ukiyoto Publishing House as 2021’s up-and-coming fiction author. The novel was optioned for a movie by Sanjay Gupta’s White Feather Films and is currently being translated by Rajhans Prakashan Publishing House for a re-release in Marathi. A Crate of Rags & Bones, a collection of macabre short stories, launched in December of 2022 and was praised by Neil D’Silva as being an un-put-downable read, and destined for the Indian bestseller list. It is currently is being narrated in Tamil for an upcoming audio book. Nolans latest novel, the sequel to Blood & Brown Sugar, Blood & Bombay Black, launched in January of 2024 to stellar reviews.

He is also a member of writing and critique groups in India as well as being the co-founder of a popular writer’s community, The Ink & Quill Collective where he serves as the senior fiction editor of their Bi Annual lit mag, Quillmark.

In his spare time, he conducts masterclasses on Building Believable Characters, and Writing Horror Fiction.

Nolan lives in Bombay with his wife, a sarcastic beagle named Sweeney Todd, and two very naughty motorcycles, Wilhelmina and Elvira.

~ L.A. Nolan Publications ~

Novels;

 Memoirs of a Motorcycle Madman, a collection of humorous travelogues.

 Blood & Brown Sugar, A crime thriller novel.

 A Crate of Rags & Bones, A collection of macabre short stories.

 Blood & Bombay Black, A crime thriller novel.

 Luna Hortus, A Sci-Fi Horror novella, Westland’s Between Worlds collection.

Short Stories - Magazines;

 The Peddler & The Crow, The Indian Writing Project

 The Mill Creek Drowning, Ink & Quill Magazine.

 The Sculptor's Daughter, Nomadology Magazine.

 Don’t Call Me Madeline, Moonlit Getaway Magazine.

 The Twelfth Night, Moonlit Gateway Magazine.

 Between Floors, Mean Pepper Vine Magazine.

Short Stories - Anthologies;

 Sabaat of the Kali Dayaan, in the Chandrayarn - Spin to the Moon Anthology.

 A Wolf by Any Other Name, in the HellHounds Anthology.

 Hearts of Gold and Ash, in the Abandoned House Anthology.

 The Last Farewell, in the My Heart's Sunshine Anthology.

 Picklestich & Candyfloss, in the Nocturnal Echoes Anthology.

 Stolen Dawn, in the When Goddesses Walked the Earth Anthology.

 Reapers Pass, in the Vanishing Eden Anthology.

 The Devil & the Deep Blue Sea, Of Nightmares & Shrieks Anthology.

 Sonata in the Night, Bagful of Stories Anthology.

 Dickie, Dead, Done, Bagful of Stories Anthology.

 A Man on the Stairs in the Rain, Urban Ghost Stories Anthology.

 The Soft Knock – Pocket Full of Tales Anthology

 Thirteen Bells – Pocket Full of Tales Anthology

Of Note:

 The Twelfth Night – Shortlisted Best Short Fiction – 2026, Moonlit Gateway

 Sonata in the Night, - First Place – Best Story 2025, Bagful of Stories Anthology.

 As the Banyan Tree Wept – Shortlisted Grand Prize – 2024, The Indian Film Project

 The Peddler & The Crow - Grand Prize Winner – 2023, The Indian Writing Project

 Best Emerging Author - 2022, Ukiyoto Publishing House.

 Best Fiction - 2022, Literary Voice Magazine.

 Best Crime Thriller – 2022, SRG Literary Awards