About

Hi! I'm Lisa, and thanks for taking a look at my blog.  I write novels and short stories, and I've also written a few screenplays and a ten minute play. I have an MFA in creative writing, but an MFA is not at all necessary unless you want to teach at the college level. I use this blog to write about whatever I want, but lately I've been blogging mostly about novels I've read and have given a few tips on writing fiction. The posts about fiction writing aren't fiction writing lessons, though I may call them that, because there's no way I can teach anyone how to write fiction.

Other stuff? I was born and raised in New Jersey. I've lived in Massachusetts, Indiana, Iowa, and Alaska. I now live in Southern California. I don't believe a supreme being or higher power exists; I'm a vegan, and I own a Kindle though I borrow books (ebooks and paper ones) from the library every week which is easy to do because I work in a library.  (I'm an Adult Literacy Coordinator at the Los Angeles Public Library.) I love to walk, especially in the White Point Nature Preserve near my home.  I even named my publishing company after the preserve, Whitepoint Press.

Here's a view from the nature preserve: