About

Lori Alayne Way is a ghostwriter and narrative historian specializing in historical narratives and long-form storytelling. Her work focuses on developing complex life stories into enduring narrative legacies that explore themes of displacement, identity, and family history, often drawing on twentieth-century geopolitical events and lived experience. With three university degrees, including graduate study of narrative theory and classical story structure for books and film, Way is a voice for others as she writes about unsung heroes.

Born and raised in the Canadian prairies, Way grew up visiting grandparents in Puerto Rico before attending boarding school in Massachusetts and college in California. With her first career as a stay-at-home mom, she also always wanted to be a writer, and after finding her grandparents’ letters and logbooks, returned to university to develop her writing in hopes of one day doing justice for their epic story. 

In the process came another story. After earning her BA in English in 2011, Way began providing writing services and continued with an MFA in Creative Writing. For her thesis, she wrote the manuscript for her debut novel, Finding Fortune. Then through an MA in Film Studies, she concentrated on the Atomic Age of Film and presenting the pacifist hero.

Since then, Way has developed the Erdman-Adams archives into a multigenerational American family saga told through three book series covering the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. It is the story of a pacifist scientist descended from long lines of ministers and military leaders who braves the world unarmed as he follows his conscience in navigating the tides of a nation obsessed with war.

All about story, and with a fascination for mavericks and magnates, Way specializes in life stories as screenplays and book manuscripts. In 2019 she established Garnet House for the publication of Finding Fortune and as a home for her commissioned ghostwriting, which has included feature screenplay packages and work on legacy and leadership books for elite clientele across multiple locations in North America and the Caribbean.

Related to Joseph Campbell, the world’s leading mythologist, and descended from Anne Bradstreet, America’s first published poet, Way also shares ancestry with iconic writers such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and Richard Henry Dana Jr. Forever enraptured by the beauty of language, the power of story, and the Hero’s Journey, Way remains dedicated to the art and craft of writing and to the creation and preservation of story.