Lauren Grace Zemel curled up in a chair reading a book, wearing glasses and a gray sweater.

Lauren Grace Zemel

Writer

I write across novels, fan fiction, poetry, and tabletop worlds — plus Enso, the comic I’m building panel by panel. Some of it’s polished, some of it’s still finding its shape, but all of it starts the same way: with a story that wouldn’t leave me alone. No matter how hard I tried to offer it to Satan instead.

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Novels

The long‑form worlds I build when a story refuses to stay small. Novels are where my characters get loud, my themes get layered, and my patience gets tested — in the best possible way. These are the stories I’m shaping slowly, intentionally, and with a lot of mushroom coffee.

An open book with reading glasses resting on it, surrounded by fruit and a wine glass on a linen blanket in golden light, representing the Fan Fiction category

Fan Fiction

My favorite writing gym. Fan fiction is where I experiment, stretch new skills, and occasionally fix plot choices that have personally offended me. It’s fun, it’s low‑pressure, and it’s where half my best ideas accidentally start.

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Poetry

Short, emotional, occasionally unhinged. Poetry is where I say the things prose refuses to hold — the soft moments, the sharp ones, and everything in between.

A close-up of tabletop game pieces including dice spilling from a leather cup, wooden tokens, and game cards, representing the Tabletops category

Tabletops

Campaigns, characters, chaotic plot twists — basically storytelling with dice. This is where my inner nerd thrives and my writer brain gets to play without rules.

A warmly lit restaurant interior with red beams resembling a torii gate and hanging lanterns, evoking the Japanese mythological roots of Enso

Latest Project — Enso

The project I didn’t expect to fall this hard for. After severe writer’s drought and feeling like I was on a respirator to keep going I stumbled my way into an ELVTR class by Adam Beechan. Not knowing what to write I dusted off some old notes I had at the back of a saved writing scraps folder and found myself soon with a full series bible, a cast of characters I think about more than I’d like to admit, and twenty pages of an Issue #1. Right now I’m hunting for an artist and still deciding whether to pitch it or self-publish — but either way, this one’s happening. For the Nihon Shoki time in my life and for my gratitude for the talented people I met.