Thought Doodles

Ignite the joy to kid. Where ideas become reality, dreams breathe and stories are fresh with life

About

Laura L. Harkins

It started in kindergarten… I’ve wanted to write since I was a kindergartner and now I spend my time being creative-by-day working in the ad industry and then devote the rest of my time to my daughter, Vivian, and creative writing for littles. (the grown-up littles in all of us and the actual tiny tots)

Children’s Picture Books, Easy Readers, New Adult Fiction and Contemporary Fiction

From my desk

Mermaids Eat Donuts

Mer-girl Sophia is frustrated because everything in the Mer-Kingdom is about Seaweed. Why can’t we have something new? When Sophia and her friend Sidney Seahorse spy a cruise ship and discover Donuts, the Mer-Kingdom will never be the same.

I am Orange

Olivia decides it’s better to change her favorite activity to soccer because after all, Liam loves soccer. Except, Olivia finds out soccer isn’t as much fun as drawing and writing. When Olivia discovers her bright orange start to fade, what she values most must change.

Cloud Baby

Cloud Baby dreams of life beyond the purple mountains and is frustrated because he’s too young to explore in his own. What’s the worst that could happen… and yet, what’s the best adventure he could find if he went ahead alone? When he sets out by himself and gets swept up in an epic storm only to meet a real-life Thunder Cloud, Cloud Baby must come to learn something new about himself.

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Potato

Shocked, Potato awakens to find himself in the middle of an estate sale and soon shipped off to an animal shelter where he befriends Bella and Riley. They convince Potato he needs a better meow if he wants any chance of ever being adopted. So Potato tries anything and everything to get noticed only to discover the power of his own voice is the key to changing the shelter.

Fan Girl

Laura’s first new adult fiction book! A professional 30-something influencer blessed with superhuman charisma and an uncanny sense of self-awareness sets up AI to simplify and automate her life: take over the arduous process of vetting and getting to know potential boyfriends in hopes of finding her dream man more quickly while she focuses on the rest of her life. It’s all furiously fun until the AI bot she’s prompted actually starts chatting with her best friend - using her diary as source material - rather than any of her potential admirers.

Birthday Cake

Today is THE day because it’s Giraffe’s birthday! Excited and joyful, Giraffe is so happy to pick up his birthday cake and jump into a day filled with celebrations. What happens when the bakery forgot about his birthday cake order? The day turns upside down only for Giraffe and his friends to learn what birthdays are really celebrated for in the first place.

Rotten

Chronically depressed Apple has an accident falling from a tree and starts to rot. Startled, he encounters a warm-hearted Worm who wants to know how Apple is feeling because he isn’t looking his best. In typical Apple fashion, he brushes off Worm, intently focusing on how he’s feeling so upset after that fall. Why is it so hard to let go? A flash flood causes Apple to make a tough choice, and his outlook on life will never be the same.

Partner

Laura’s first contemporary fiction novel! Victoria’s ad agency loses an account and she’s kicked out of her job in lower Manhattan. She’s eating her severance quickly while working on her side hustle creating graphic novels when one day she receives a call from her ailing father urging her to visit home and telling her he’s prepared the will. She needs to come home to visit with him and deal with her estranged brother who she hasn’t spoken to in almost 10 years. She decides to make the trip with her new boyfriend from Bushwick only to learn en route her father has passed; she must choose between trusting her brother, a new boyfriend who seems only too eager to guide her and herself.

Cloud Baby 2: Cloud Baby Goes to Space

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