Titles by Gwenna Laithland
Short stories are fun and all but here are all the books I've actually convinced someone to publish. No. I have no idea how. I swear my life is mostly a series of increasingly interesting and improbable accidents.
Non Fiction
Fiction
Momma Cusses: A Field Guide to Responsive Parenting & Trying Not to Be the Reason Your Kid Needs Therapy
The Soul's
Guide to the After Death
This book is the culmination of my keeping my kids alive and relatively stable for sixteen years. I'm not even done parenting them, so this is a very in-the-trenches examination of motherhood, responsive parenting, breaking generational cycles, and remembering that kids are people who just aren't very good at being people yet. It is the resource I wish I'd had in those earliest days of parenthood: those dark, lost, confusing moments when I was pretty sure I was doing it all wrong.
Susan Chambers woke up feeling like she had been hit by a bus. Mostly because she had been hit by a bus. And died. And she wasn’t so much waking up as she was arriving in the space that exists between life and death; The After Death.
Susan must confront her past, her choices, and her failings as she reconciles what it means to be alive, to live, and to let go. With the gentle guidance of Aurora, Susan’s guide to The After Death, Susan navigates her way through the memories and experiences that made her who she was and will shape whatever comes after The After Death.
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Thinky Thoughts
The Inheritance Law Trilogy
Book 1: The Regents
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Thinky Thoughts is a collection of essays that explore the connection between being an
unabashed millennial and being a mother. With finding yourself, hacking off old bits of
you that don’t serve, like insecurities and fear of judgment, and with exploring new
things that don’t have anything to do with your kids.
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Out Spring 2026
Pre Order Info Coming Soon!
Aoife Westergaard was born to inherit a regency. She would be the commander of a great navy, the general of a terrifying army, and the personal bodyguard to her twin brother, The King. The Law claims her body and mind belong to the crown. But no law commands who may protect her heart. Aoife loves her brother but has a single opportunity to walk away from it all, follow her heart, and carve her own path. Can Aoife turn away from her entire family for the desires of her heart? Can the love of one man be enough to break Aoife away from The Inheritance Laws?
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Upcoming Fiction Book 2
Oh also, that fiction project is part of a trilogy if I get my way. So this will be where I tell you about book 2 of that trilogy.
Writer Resources
Here's a free downloadable copy of the book proposal I used to pitch Momma Cusses. This was basically the very first draft of the book. It was created before a bulk of the book was written so not all the chapter summaries accurately reflect the chapters included in the published book, but most are pretty close. Some private information was censored for public consumption. Click the image to download the PDF for free. -->
