Laura Jane Williams is the author of 16 books.

Known as the queen of the cute-meet, her adult romantic comedies include worldwide bestseller Our Stop, as well as The Lucky Escape, Enemies to Lovers, and Love at First Sight. Her next novel is released June 2026, and is called The Last to Know. Laura’s novels have been translated into scores of languages all around the globe and have been endorsed by superstar stalwarts Dolly Alderton and Emily Henry, Beth O’Leary and Jacqueline Wilson, to name just a few.

Laura is also the author of teen books Taylor Blake is a Legend and Taylor Blake Seizes the Day.

As a non-fiction author and magazine columnist Laura has made headlines. Grazia magazine once said she is a ‘general all-round-speaker of what-is-in-our-heads’, Stylist said her honesty and voice are unique - and invited her to write an essay for their Life Lessons from Remarkable Women book - and Marie Claire made Laura their #BreakFree from Fear ambassador. The Independent even called her ‘a happiness expert’.

Laura believes that the gap between the life we’re supposed to want and the life we’re actually living can be solved by one thing: being honest. You don’t change your life by becoming someone else - you change it by telling the truth about who you already are. How to Build a Life is her bestselling and chart-topping newsletter where she does just that - because telling the truth? It’s a forever thing. Subscribers say things like: Your Substack is one of the only ones that piques my interest every time an email drops into my inbox. As a similar-age person reimagining everything I thought I knew about purpose and how my life would be, your newsletter is super relatable, and, Your honesty is bravery personified and reading your words makes me feel braver too. You can subscribe here. 

The cornerstone of all Laura’s work, be it fiction or real life, is encouragement to go all-in on the adventure of your own life. When she’s not telling stories or completing her studies, she loves being a parent, thinking about getting back into lifting heavy weights, and is enjoying, as she turns 40, gardening.