is a freelance journalist and a graduate of the University of Miami School of Communication. When she isn t combing South Florida for the latest hotels, restaurants, and attractions, she is on the lookout for vacationing celebrities, about whom she writes in her weekly nightlife and gossip column, Velvet Underground, for the Miami Herald.
She is a contributor to
Condé Nast Traveler, Time Out,
and all three illustrious supermarket tabloids; and is the author of
Frommer
s South Florida, Florida For Dummies , and
Frommer
s Portable Miami.
Laura Lea Miller
is a freelance writer based in Buffalo, New York, though she
s spent countless hours scouring Central Florida
s theme parks over the years
both with and without her husband and five kids. A family–travel expert who religiously makes an annual pilgrimage to the Land the Mouse built, she is currently researching and writing a guide to Florida for families.