Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, author Laurie Rossin loved fiction at an early age. When she was nine years’ old, she found a book of Alfred Hitchcock stories on her aunt’s bookshelf (she was supposed to be sleeping) and was hooked. As a young girl, she loved watching “The Twilight Zone” on TV, reading stories by Edgar Allen Poe and eventually discovered Stephen King. She was drawn to “spooky” fiction that contained enough reality to be plausible but stretched her imagination to wonder “what if?”
In her first two years at Concordia University in Saint Paul in the early 1970s, she pursued a typical liberal arts education with a concentration in music and English literature. Realizing that she did not want to teach and job opportunities in music or literature were limited to the “extremely talented,” she quit school begin a career in the businesses world. As an adult, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. After a long and successful career in the specialized field of 401(k) Plan Administration, she left her senior management position at Doherty Employment Group in Edina to pursue her creative passions – one of which was to finish her novel.
The story was inspired back in 1996 when Rossin learned about the birth of Dolly – the first cloned mammal. It caused her to ponder the societal, moral and ethical implications of advanced medical cell manipulation and therapy. “What if medical technology was used for the wrong purpose?” Danny’s Boy explores that question in this intriguing tale filled with suspense and romance.
The book is set in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minnesota where the author lives with her husband Tom and their two birds, Sunny and Paco. Rossin is currently working on her next book – a continuation of Danny’s story.