Jul 14, 2010 07:21
I'm very happy to welcome writer Lex Valentine as our speaker this coming Saturday. Lex will be tackling survival strategies and other interesting angles on the writing scene. She is a best selling and multi-published author.
Lex has been writing ever since she could hold a pencil. A few years ago, she got into writing in an online paranormal serial story and then into blogging. When she posted snippets of work on her blog Sunlight Sucks, author Jennifer Leeland began encouraging her to submit her writing to publishers. That is what led to her first contract in October 2008.
An award winning, multi-published PAN author, Lex is a member of EPIC, the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance, and the Romance Writers of America. She belongs to several RWA special interest chapters: Rainbow Writers, PASIC, Passionate Ink, and Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal.
Her list of publishers includes: Ellora’s Cave, Pink Petal Books, MLR Press, Liquid Silver Books, Noble Romance, Freya’s Bower, Wild Child Publishing, MSF, and Cobblestone Press. She is published in both ebook and print.
Born and raised in Salinas, California, Lex moved to Southern California in 1992. She lives in Orange County with her daughter Nikki and her own younger man Rott, a long-haired tattooed hottie. She loves loud rock music, builds her own computers, and has a propensity for having very weird vivid dreams about Nikki Sixx. Lex works full-time at a cemetery as the network administrator and has a love of all things techie.
Lex was a blogger before she was an author. Add that to her love of technology and art and it means you’ll find her all over the internet. The domain she’s had for 15 years has become her graphics site Winterheart Design. She blogs in a number of places including Liquid Silver’s SEX blog, Flirty Author Bitches, and Avoid Writer’s Hell.
Links
Author website and blog - lexvalentine.com
Personal blog - sunlightsucks.com
Tales of the Darkworld - talesofthedarkworld.com
Twitter - lexvalentine
Facebook - facebook.com/cemeterywinter
MySpace - myspace.com/cemeterywinter
Graphics - winterheart.com
Group blog - flirtyauthorbitches.com