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   Laurel-Rain Snow

 
Laurel-Rain Snow is the pen name for Lorraine Frost Sandone, who was born in California's Central Valley; she attended community college in Modesto, CA, after which she transferred to San Francisco State University in the sixties. She transferred again and graduated from California State University in Sacramento, with a BA in psychology. Ms. Snow moved to Fresno, CA, in the early seventies, where she then worked in the social work profession for over thirty years, specializing primarily in child welfare cases. She earned her MA in counseling from California State University of Fresno in the seventies. Ms. Snow, now retired from social work, lives in Fresno, CA, and is the mother of four grown children and proud grandmother of seven.

After retiring from the social work profession, Ms.Snow turned to an old dream---writing---and has published five novels, available on Amazon.com.
 
The author weaves three decades of experience into her novels, which sets them apart and lends authenticity to the characterizations.
  
 
 
 
 
“Laurel-Rain Snow's 'An Accidental Life' tells a familiar story: Four teenage girls have a 'coming-of-age' summer during which they experiment with alcohol, drugs and sex. (Think 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' meets 'Trainspotting').

 
"But in her debut novel, the...author manages a unique
feat by detailing how the girls' behavior affects not
only them, but the parents, guardians, boyfriends, and
social workers who surround them.

"Sick of hearing about a 15-year-old's unwanted
pregnancy? Flip ahead a few pages and find a subplot
about a social worker who's being stalked by an
unknown obsessor. Think the 'junkie boyfriend'
storyline is cliched? Not so much when you realize
that the book focuses more on his mother's
dialogue—both internal and external—than his.

"In a story which could be replete with minor
characters, there are surprisingly few. An ex-husband,
whom many authors would write off in a passing
reference, acts as a major foil. Snow also offers more
than a peek into a next-door lover's past, and exposes
a reluctant grandmother for the fraud she really is.”
 
- Blast Magazine