About Lisa Logan
My
life from 12 to 30 involved a series of After School
Special-style adventures that finally turned my sights to fiction.
These include, but were not limited to: life in a show
business family, a stint as an acting extra and production assistant,
becoming a competition-level costumer, indulging a love of movies by
amassing over 500 DVD's, having a themed wedding, and raising seven
children a'la The Sound of Music (without the governess). I've
worked as a stereo technician, a baker's assistant, a cake decorator,
an ice cream shop manager, a hardware store cashier, a web and graphics
designer, a childbirth educator, and a ward clerk at the hospital where
I've worked for the past eighteen years.
I live in Southern California in a town smack dab between Los Angeles and Palm Springs, with my actor/director husband Mike Logan and the last of the brood still at home--a preschooler with plans for world domination. First step, win American Idol.
After doing a series of non-fiction essays and articles I turned to my first love, fiction. Several books, workshops, and classe later, A Kink in the Tale was published in Futures magazine. Soon ideas outgrew the short format, and full-length work followed. My first short and full legths weren't my first published, however. A Novel Murder, my first short, still sits in a drawer. And whileTwelve Steps to Murder was my first full length concept, it wasn't completed until two years after beginningVisions.
Publishing Biography
2008
Bylines
Desk Calendar Contributing Author
Essay/Calendar
2007
MouthFullofBullets.com:
A Kink in the Tale
Paranormal Bedtime Stories co-editor/author. Contributed story: The Witch's Reverend
Twist of Fate co-editor/author. Contributed story: A Nurse, Forever
Twisted Fayrie Tales Contributed
stories: Sindarella, The Christmas Present
2006
Chicken
Soup for the Recovering Soul: Daily Inspirations Contributing
Author
January 2006, HCI, ISBN 0757303188 Essay/Journal
MouthFullofBullets.com:
A Cold Fire--December issue
2004
Misadventures
of Moms and Disasters of Dads Contribution: Selective Hearing
May 2004 Moms in Print ISBN: 0975355805 Essay/Anthology
KeepItComing.net:
The Christmas Present--1st place winner, Holiday writing contest.
Read live on Artist's First Radio Network
WriteFromHome.com:
Feng Shui For Writers, September 04
2003
Futures Magazine:
A Kink in the Tale Fall issue
NightsandWeekends.com:
I
Don't Know Anything About Babies -- I'm Just the Grandmother
Traveling
with the Whole Kid 'n' Caboodle
Beating
the 'I'm Bored' Blues
School's
Out Birthday Party
Mom's
and Dad's Days to Remember
Feng
Shui for Families
How to Tell if a College Student Has Too Many Units
Culture
for Kids
Valentines
Galore: Ideas for Making a Special Day for Your Child
Anime:
Cartoons are Not Always for Kids
Holiday
Traditions to Try and Treasure
Coffee
House Chic
College After Thirty-Five: Adventures in Education
2002
EXPLORE! Magazine:
Coffee House Chic
College After Thirty-Five: Adventures in Education
Movie Madness
NightsandWeekends.com:
Reviewing
the Critic
Review: Attack of the Clones (Star Wars: Episode II)
Zinos.com:
Templates, Interfaces, and Sets: How to Boost Your Site's Look Without
Becoming A Graphics Designer
1996-2000
CPSP News--Writer, co-editor, monthly prenatal health newsletter