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About Me

Get a scroller sign at http://www.crazyprofile.com.com! I have been writing since I can remember. Growing up, I was always writing something. I created many a little magazine, wrote piles of poems, began several books, stories and was always an avid letter writer. However, despite my strong proclivity to write, my youthful dream was to be an actress. I majored in Drama for a while and did some theatre, but I knew that I was much better suited to be a writer. Of course, many who know me well will maintain I AM an actress, but it's not the career I sought out. :-)
I went through a lot of ups and downs with my writing. I went through long periods where I couldn't write. Being truly introspective and then being honest with myself helped me to figure out how to write a novel from beginning to end. I have two completed novels. CROOKED MOON is now available in trade paperback and in the e-book version via Amazon.com or my web site. My second novel, SQUALOR, NEW MEXICO, will likely be released in print at the end of 2008., and in the e-version (Amazon Kindle edition) within the next few months. I am currently working on a third novel, and have many other projects in the works. I also have a play, which I wrote many years ago, BARRIE HILL REUNION, which some day I might just novelize. I keep notebooks with all of my ideas. It freaks me out to go anywhere without something to write with and something to write on!
I have a very eclectic group of wonderful friends. Each and every one of them is very important to me; each person has his/her unique gifts to share and I never take any of them for granted.
VISIT ME AT www.lisettebrodey.com to learn more about my just-released novel, CROOKED MOON. If you wish, please sign my guestbook and join my mailing list!Get Your Own Myspace Layouts @ MyspaceLayouts.cc !

My Interests

My friends, writing, my beautiful niece Dara, music, politics, languages, keeping fit, psychology, travel, animals, reading, dreaming and keeping hope alive for myself and others...
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I'd like to meet:

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.. I'd like to meet many of my dear friends that I know so well, yet have never met in person.
On MySpace, first and foremost, I'd like to meet nice people. I like sincere, intelligent, funny, thoughtful, open-minded people of all ages and backgrounds. Especially those who love animals and people involved in literary pursuits! I am a huge supporter of musicians, but I'm not really interested in any more requests from bands or singers who simply want me to be one more number on their page. What's the point? And I really like people who include notes with friend requests!

Music:

.. Marvin Gaye; Michael Putini; Curtis Mayfield; Maroon 5; The Fray; Alison Krauss/AKUS; Amy Winehouse; Wendy Simon; Neko Case; Ronnie Turso; Audra McDonald; Sam Cooke; Dinah Washington; The Beatles; Elton John; Tony Bennett, Coldplay, Il Divo, Rufus Wainwright; Martha Wainwright; Wynton Marsalis; Branford Marsalis; Shirley Horn; shawn cunnane; all Motown groups; Teddy Pendergrass; Ella Fitzgerald; Sade; Evanescence; Jennifer Lopez; Kathy Brier; Anita Baker; Eva Cassidy; Gina Glocksen; Johnny One Match; Paulina Rubio; Kellie Pickler; Trace Adkins; Catherine Tuttle; Sal Anthony; Jason Miles Goss; One Block Radius; Ron Rutherford; Laura Cheadle; Barry White; Luther Vandross, Paul McCartney; Paul Potts, Luciano Pavarotti, Josh Groban, Karen Carpenter, Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland & many many more!..

Movies:

.. Gone With The Wind; Ghost; The Sound of Music; Shadow of A Doubt; Rear Window; The Best Years of Our Lives; The Shawshank Redemption; Lost in Translation; Apollo 13; The Wizard of Oz; Funny Girl; Mary Poppins; Films by Pedro Almodavor; Films by David Lynch; The Graduate; La Vie en Rose; Notes on a Scandal; The Pursuit of Happyness; Rent; Saturday Night Fever; American Graffiti; Where The Boys Are; and on and on...

Television:

.. All My Children; One Life to Live; The Young & the Restless; Boston Legal; Ugly Betty; Grey's Anatomy; Desperate Housewives; Celebrity Apprentice; Countdown with Keith Olbermann; The Biggest Loser; American Idol; MSNBC News...

Books:

.. Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner); Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe); The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins); Dodsworth; Sinclair Lewis; Under Milkwood (Dylan Thomas); novels by D.H. Lawrence and many more. Oh, yeah, and then there's this one:..

NOW AVAILABLE IN PRINT VERSION (trade paperback) and Kindle e-version at AMAZON.com. Just do a search for CROOKED MOON to find listings!

Heroes:

.. T-Bone & Dingy Angel for being smart, amazing women who have survived so much yet continue to fight for themselves and those they love. And my late, great friend, Peggy Cass who I wish were still with us. PattiAnn Cutter because she spreads so much happiness to so many people and is a true advocate for the planet earth and all its creatures. This is for you, my friend:

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Saki, Charles Roth (Mister) & Dara Brodey.

My niece Dara loves Nina Hagen; I do, too!

I'm a big fan of Edward Hopper's art.

My precious Saberlee:
I will never forget you.

My Blog

SAILBOAT, GRAPEFRUIT: Lisette & Sherrie’s Blog Game

My friend Sherrie is a very creative soul just like me. Or at least we both try to be! Today, she had a "creative spark" (direct quote) and issued me a challenge. She gave me two words, "sailboat"...
Posted by Lisette on Sun, 18 May 2008 12:20:00 PST

FEELINGS, NOTHING MORE THAN FEELINGS . .

"Feelings, nothing more than feelings,trying to forget my feelings of love.Teardrops rolling down on my face,trying to forget my feelings of love . . .Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it. I wi...
Posted by Lisette on Sun, 04 May 2008 08:03:00 PST

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE

Life is a series of lessons. Lessons we learn from others; lessons we learn from ourselves.I've always been a writer. The first thing I can ever remember writing was a song called "Once A Little Horse...
Posted by Lisette on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:45:00 PST

ALL IN A DAZE WORK

Does it ever seem like on the days you most want to set the world on fire, you find yourself in rather a daze with your poison of choice? Often, on the days that I most want to be creative, I find tha...
Posted by Lisette on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:29:00 PST

THE ANATOMY OF A SOAP OPERA, PT. 4 of 4

THE ANATOMY OF A SOAP OPERAPART IVMost everything wacky or weird about soaps I do understand. But that makes it no less wacky and weird. Home is where the heart is, right? But in the interest of netwo...
Posted by Lisette on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:55:00 PST

THE ANATOMY OF A SOAP OPERA, PT. 3 of 4

THE ANATOMY OF A SOAP OPERA, PT. 3 of 4And now, in Part III of this blog, I'd like to start with a brief talk about food. Restaurant scenes are a big part of soap life. They're a great place for chara...
Posted by Lisette on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:52:00 PST

ANATOMY OF A SOAP OPERA (Part 2 of 4)

THE ANATOMY OF A SOAP OPERA: PART 2 of 4Years ago, I was talking to a friend of a friend who was trying to explain to us how stupid his cousin's girlfriend was! He seemed pained that he could not prop...
Posted by Lisette on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:04:00 PST

ANATOMY OF A SOAP OPERA, PART I

PART IMy life is a soap opera. I watch it every day. If I did no more than observe the craziness in my own life, it would be spectacle enough. If I did no more than observe the insanity in the lives o...
Posted by Lisette on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:01:00 PST

Memories of Ground Zero (as seen on 12/3/2001)

On December 3, 2001, I visited Ground Zero at night time. That evening, when I got home, I quickly typed out my thoughts. Being a writer, it is my habit to try and polish my words so that they shine. ...
Posted by Lisette on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:28:00 PST

PET PEEVES: A part of the fabric of our lives

Pet peeves. We all have them. No matter how much we'd like to let things roll off our backs and tend to life's priorities, they get us. And when they do, we often feel compelled to share them and that...
Posted by Lisette on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:30:00 PST