I have been asked from time-to-time where I get ideas for stories. I wish I could say that I get one spark of inspiration and poof! A plot and characters are in my head. For me, stories evolve from a whiff of an idea and grow over time as I start imagining the...

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Mack is Back (Click to download story.) My senior class consisted of one-hundred-and-forty-six students. The number included everyone, whether they graduated or not, and farm kids from neighboring communities too small for a school of their own. Most of us had known...

I have often been asked how I got the idea for Degrees of Love and why I would write a novel that deals with infidelity. Answering the first question is easy. There was a period in my life when I was traveling three to five days per week for work. During a period of...

Have you always wanted to be an author? If not, do you remember when you decided that this was what you wanted to do? No, the first thing I can remember wanting to be was a mom and only later, an actress. Being a writer didn’t really occur to me until about nine years...

When I tell people I write Women’s Fiction, most people are uncertain about what that means. Two seconds later they might introduce me by saying, “This is Lisa. She writes Chick Lit,” or “This is Lisa. She’s a Romance writer.” On occasion, I have even been described...

Tell us about your latest book: Degrees of Love: A Novel is about a Silicon Valley soccer mom who on the surface has it all, but internally she struggles with bouts of unhappiness and unspoken resentment of her success from her husband.