The Laughter of the Sun series

Award-winning Contemporary Fantasy Fiction

Cover of the book "The Mermaid's Wrath" by Andie Holman, featuring a dark blue background with gold accents and celestial-themed illustrations, including a mermaid, sun, moon, stars, and waves, with the subtitle "A Contemporary Environmental Fantasy".
Award logo for Reedsy Discovery Editors' Choice Award 2025 with a circular design, dark blue text, and small star illustrations.
Book cover titled 'The Sorrow of Bees' by Andie Holman with illustrations of bees, honeycomb patterns, and a crown on a bee in the center.
Book cover for 'The Unbearable Melt' by Andie Holman. Features an illustration of a polar bear and a black bird on an ice floe in the ocean with a starry sky and celestial design in the background.

Swim with warrior mermaids, fly with Queen bees, and run for your life with Arctic wolf shifters.

The Laughter of the Sun Series is Hope punk - the opposite of Dystopian.

Current climate science forms the world-building, and all the animals can talk. A magical crew battles powerful beings who want the Earth for themselves, falling in love and falling over themselves as they navigate the collision of magic and science.

Described as Moana meets The Hunger Games.