Writer Biography

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Short: (358 words)

Lita’s first writing was a poem written when she was fourteen years old. When she was seventeen, she had two poems published in a high school publication called Reflections. The next thirty-odd years were filled with additional writings of poetry, travelogues, and diaries of a personal, magical, dream, and psychological nature. Coupled with a dozen more years of education, additional writings produced commentaries, expository essays, and reviews, along with journal articles. In 2004, she had a love poem published in a collection by the International Library of Poetry.

In 2014, more poetry was published. The first was a collection of poems from her early years, called From the Mundane to the Magical: A Lifetime of Poetic Moments. Two years later, a second collection of poems from her later years was published, called Poetic Emanations of Light, Life, Love & Liberty. In between, since she had a long career in the food industry as a chef and caterer, she wrote a magical cookbook called The Thelemic Cookbook: Cooking with Correspondences.

From here on forward, she began a series of fictional books in the murder mystery genre that utilized notes from her travel diaries. From 2016 to 2018, she wrote a trilogy called The Inspector Reynard Series: The Collioure Concealment which takes place in France, Murder of the Mystras Nun which takes place in Greece, and The Cypriot Secret, which takes place on Cyprus and Malta.

In 2019, Lita put her doctorate degree in human sexuality to work in a non-fiction book called Sticks and Balls: A Sexologist Pokes Fun at Sports. Also that year was published her first spy novel called Hiding in Paradise. In 2020, The Blythewood Curse, was published about Druids in 1891 England. And in 2021, The Sylvan Woods of Lake Nemi, about the early Roman cult of Diana.

In 2022, The Town with the Feather Crest, a fully illustrated long poem for children was published; and Pearl and Garridan: A Roma Love Story, another magical story about travelers in Romania in 1871. In 2023, The Inspector Reynard series continued with The Rose of Rhodes, an archaeological mystery which takes place on the island of Rhodes.

Long: (617 words)

Lita began to write for others when she was fourteen, and it began with a poem called “Though I Am Not a Little Girl.” It was about eating ice cream on the kitchen floor, and although it was only enjoyed by her parents, it set a love for poetry in motion. Her first published works were in a high school publication called Reflections where she had two poems, “Remember,” about a love that had ended, and “The Battle,” about the truth and lies that we tell ourselves. The next thirty-odd years were filled with additional writings of poetry, travelogues, and several diaries of a personal, magical, dream, and psychological nature. Coupled with a dozen more years of education, additional writings produced commentaries, expository essays, and reviews, along with journal articles.

In 2004, she had her next poem, “Soul of the Sensuous,” published in a collection of poems called Invoking the Muse, by the International Library of Poetry.

In 2014, a collection of poems from her early years was published by Sybaritic Press, called From the Mundane to the Magical: A Lifetime of Poetic Moments. Two years later, her second collection of poems from the later part of her life were collected in Poetic Emanations of Light, Life, Love & Liberty. It was published by Templar Media, which would be the publication house that published all the rest of her books. In between, since she had a long career in the food industry as a chef and caterer, she put together a magical cookbook called The Thelemic Cookbook: Cooking with Correspondences, which was a collection of 656 recipes.

In 2016, she began a series of fictional books which combined notes from her travel diaries, and were about her favorite genre, the murder mystery. The first one was called The Collioure Concealment which took place in France, the second was Murder of the Mystras Nun which took place in Greece, and the third was The Cypriot Secret, which took place on Cyprus and Malta. Because the same characters continued on different adventures, it became a trilogy called The Inspector Reynard series. Each one took less than a year to write.

Going forward, inspiration spirited her imagination and she began to write faster. She wrote three books each year, but would only publish two per year. In 2019, Lita put her doctorate degree in human sexuality to work in a non-fiction book called Sticks and Balls: A Sexologist Pokes Fun at Sports. The second book published that year was her first spy novel called Hiding in Paradise. Then Lita combined history and magic in her next two books. In 2020, The Blythewood Curse, was published about Druids in 1891 England. And in 2021, The Sylvan Woods of Lake Nemi, was published, about the early Roman cult of Diana.

In her first book of poetry, the last poem was a long one written for children. She decided that it would make a good book on its own. She hired an illustrator to have it fully illustrated, and in 2022, The Town with the Feather Crest was published, first as a Kindle e-book, and then in print. The second book published that year was Pearl and Garridan: A Roma Love Story, another magical story, this one about travelers in Romania in 1871. In 2023, The Inspector Reynard series continued with The Rose of Rhodes, which took the family to the island of Rhodes for an archaeological mystery. The second book to be published in 2023 will be Isis’ Secret Treasure, another archaeological mystery which takes place on an island in Lake Nasser, Egypt. Three more books have been written and await publication, and five more books are planned for the near future.