lisa samson -- i'm still here
Just writing a new bio can be daunting. The fact that this is an auto-biography makes it doubly so, because, I can hardly write a smorgasbord of glowing accolades about myself, now can I? All right, I guess a lot of people do, but we know they're doing it and it seems a little braggy. So I'll give you just the facts.
Since a timeline seems to work so well for The End Times crowd, I thought I'd follow suit:
1964: born Baltimore Maryland to Bill and Joy Ebauer
1967: tonsillectomy and boy did that hurt!
1971: first holy communion
1972: was told the communists would take over in two years; started piano lessons
1974: was unbelievably relieved when they didn't. am still pretty glad.
1975: made the Junior High cheerleading squad; won first place in the regional art competition for the famed work, "Mouse Under A Mushroom".
1976: had the Dorothy Hamill hairdo, took a shine to David G., madly in love with Brian W. while somewhere in New Jersey, Will Samson had a crush on somebody other than me.
1977: sister graduated from high school, made the Junior Varsity cheerleading squad.
1978: concert choir, Varsity cheerleading
1982: graduated from high school and left for college at
1983: Bob Jones University - majored in Film
1984: Towson State for a semester - majored in getting the crappy stuff out of the way
1985: Liberty University: majored in Television Production
1986: Met Will Samson in the Fall; thought, "Nice feet!" and never went out with anybody else again.
1987: Engaged in May, as well as graduated with a BS in Telecommunications
1988: Married the guy in February
1989: Had Ty in November (way more than nine months from the wedding date, okay?)
1992: August 8th began writing first novel: The Highlander and His Lady.
1994: Jake born in July, The Highland and His Lady hits shelves in August, hold first published copy in my hands on August 8th. More books come on and off
1997: Gwynneth is born in January, we move to Maryland to care for my mother; more books
2001: Mom passes away, responsibilities lighten a bit, begin a new odyssey of depression; The Church Ladies is released in the spring - a new direction in writing
2002: Women's Intuition releases
2003: Songbird and The Living End release
2004: Diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome and realize that life may indeed be too short. Take a year-long sabbatical. Songbird wins the Christy Award for best contemporary novel of Tiger Lillie releases.
2005: Move to Kentucky to live in intentional Christian community and see what kind of trouble I can get myself into. Writing once again. Club Sandwich releases. Begin speaking arm of career.
2006: I'm still here. Apples of Gold, my first illustrated book for older girls, set to release in August; Straight Up releases in September. Begin working on my first YA series, Hollywood Nobody
2007: Quaker Summer releases, as does Hollywood Nobody. Working on Embrace Me (Thomas Nelson-Feb. 2008). Getting Gwynnie through fifth grade homework.
2008: has just begun!
These days, I'm working on the novelization of the movie Bella, editing fiction for David C. Cook, and writing my own stuff. Ty and I are set to go to Swaziland from Jan. 23rd to February 3rd after which we will be writing a book together on our experience with Africa and the AIDS crisis. Gwynnie still has tons of homework.
