Allison Lau

Author 📚 Editor 🐒 PhD Scientist
Serialized novel: Love Letter to Wanderlust ✈️
💍 Mom 👶🏻 🐱🐱🐱
Rep: Ultra Literary

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

Hi, I’m Allison Lau.

Author, editor, and former PhD behavioral scientist who once tracked monkeys, now writing essays and stories about identity, love, ambition, and reclaiming your own life.

I write my newsletter Monkey Girl—plus a serialized romcom.

Glad you’re here.

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

Everyone talks about making it.
Almost no one talks about staying kind while you do.
Watching someone pull that off changes your sense of the possible.

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

There’s a kind of leadership that doesn’t posture.
It just keeps building—and keeps the door open.

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

The most useful question I’ve picked up last year:
“What would a person who already made this work… do next?”
For me, that person is Amy Suto.
Her latest book Write for Money & Power comes out Jan 12th and it's a game changer.

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

I don’t think January is for becoming someone new.
I think it’s for remembering who you were before the noise.

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

My favorite moments from research weren’t the clean ones or the publishable ones.
They were the ones that quietly dismantled a bad assumption.

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

4/ Love Letter to Wanderlust chapter 16 is now live.

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

1/ He was ready for adventure.
She was bracing for loss.

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3/ Some grief doesn’t come from what happens—
but from what’s already happened without you.

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

The most devastating line I’ve written lately wasn’t loud or dramatic.
It was: “The jungle is gone.”

Some losses don’t arrive as events.
They arrive as facts.

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

If intimacy doesn’t move the story forward, it doesn’t belong.
But when it does—it’s devastatingly precise.
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A good sex scene isn’t about anatomy. It’s about aftermath.
Who’s braver. Who’s quieter. Who can’t go back to pretending.
#author
#writer
#romcom
#serializedfiction

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

I’m not choosing one life.
I’m learning how to inhabit the one I already have. 3/3

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

I thought motherhood would quiet my anxious, creative brain.
It didn’t. It sharpened it. 1/

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

The tension isn’t between loving my child and loving my work.
It’s between presence and self-erasure. 2/

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

Motherhood didn’t erase me. It revealed how much of me I’d been postponing. Turns out becoming someone’s safe place doesn’t require disappearing.

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

First touch isn’t romantic.
It’s instinct.
Read Love Letter to Wanderlust now ✈️🐒

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

Love Letter to Wanderlust is waiting for you--read now for free on 🐒 Monkey Girl.

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

There’s a special kind of fear reserved for things that might actually work.

[Allison Lau @AllisonRLau]

And it only quiets when someone takes your hand.