Luanne G. Smith

Luanne G Smith is an American novelist best known for writing historical and fantasy fiction. She wrote “The Vine Witch,” a fantasy novel about revenge, witches, and wine set in France during the early years of the 20th century. Her second novel “The Glamourist” is the second novel in the Vine Witch series. Smith has said that she is lucky to live in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Colorado, from where she writes her novels. She has asserted that it was reading Jean Craighead George’s “My Side of the Mountain” as a ten-year-old that got her hooked to reading and writing stories. She later went on to college and she graduated with a bachelor’s in Resource and Environment Management. She would then go on to work as a naturalist at a state park in Colorado where she had to work with painted turtles, bull snakes, and woodhouse toads among other reptiles. This perhaps explains why she made her lead character Elena a slimy toad, as she wanted to get her quirky expertise out of her head. When she is not writing, she loves to hike, garden, read and relax with a glass of wine.