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Lisa Ann

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About Me

I've just written a teen novel called Song of the Sparrow. It's being published on May 1, 2007. Check it out! www.lisaannsandell.com

My Interests

Books, books and, oh yeah, books. But seriously, I am a big reader, I write, but I also love music, art--I've started sculpting--and playing with my dog, hanging out with my husband and friends. There's more about me on my website: www.lisaannsandell.com

I'd like to meet:

Clive Owen, Gordon Lightfoot, Batman...not necessarily in that order.

Music:

M. Ward, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, The White Stripes, Nick Drake, Annie Lennox, Bruce Springsteen, The Lovin' Spoonful, Clem Snide, the Bangles, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder (Motown), Johnny Cash, Bright Eyes, The Cure, David Bowie, Dolly Parton, Elvis Costello, The Dresden Dolls, Emmylou Harris, The Flaming Lips, The Lovin' Spoonful, Nina Simone, Nico, Ray Charles, The Smiths, Tom Waits, U2, Velvet Underground, Willie Nelson, and I'm sure there are so many others that I just can't think of right now.

Television:

24, The Office, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Project Runway, Grey's Anatomy, Law & Order, and, I'm ashamed to admit it, CSI (only the Las Vegas one, though!!)

Books:

This list is insanely long, and I don't even know where to begin. Atonement by Ian McEwan, Love that Dog by Sharon Creech, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, The Same Sea by Amos Oz, Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan, South Beach by Aimee Friedman, Nobody Was Here and The Pity Party both by Alison Pollet. That's a short list. More to come!

My Blog

On Virtual Tour

  It's an exciting week for me...I was interviewed by two incredibly smart and thoughtful bloggers, Colleen Mondor of Chasing Ray and Jackie Parker of Interactive Reader, who asked me v...
Posted by Lisa Ann on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:48:00 PST

Windy Days

Fall is finally, finally here! The weather has finally caught up with the month of October. Today it was sunny and cool and windy and brilliant. I rode my bike along the Hudson River, and it was invig...
Posted by Lisa Ann on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:45:00 PST

I Heart Harry

This oily, clammy summer weather in October is making me feel kind of out of sorts. I am hot, then I'm cold, and this weekend, instead of working on my new book, as I was supposed to, I went for a bik...
Posted by Lisa Ann on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:57:00 PST

Travelin’ Days

Hey y'all,I came back from touring in Alabama for the Alabama Library Exposition a couple of weeks ago. It was a blast. I got to travel with the Scholastic Book Fairs and meet librarians in Bessemer, ...
Posted by Lisa Ann on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:03:00 PST

On the road again

I'm off to Alabama this coming week for the Alabama Library Association's traveling expo; the Scholastic Book Fairs are bringing me down there for it. I can't wait. I've never been to Alabama, and I c...
Posted by Lisa Ann on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:26:00 PST

Oh, stuff it.

I spent most of this weekend cleaning my apartment, covered in dust and tumbleweeds of dog fur. But, I accomplished a lot. We have a small fortress of books assembled on our living room floor. Have yo...
Posted by Lisa Ann on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:16:00 PST

expect the worst?

Last night I watched a movie called After the Wedding, a Danish film that was in theaters earlier this year. I won't reveal too much about it, but as I watched, I kept thinking that something sinister...
Posted by Lisa Ann on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:11:00 PST

The hardest time

I have just started re-reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy (I'm gearing up for the movie, of course!). I'm just one hundred pages into THE GOLDEN COMPASS, and I cannot get over how goo...
Posted by Lisa Ann on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:55:00 PST

It’s summertime...

This summer is slipping past so quickly, I can't seem to catch hold of it. We came back from our trip to Israel and England a few weeks ago, and I'm sorry to report, there was a minor crisis. Molly Do...
Posted by Lisa Ann on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:21:00 PST

Greetings from sunny Tel Aviv and happy Summer Solstice!

I have been here for four days, and I have eaten more and better in this short amount of time, than I have since the start of 2007. It's nearly true. Seriously, though, we've been able to unwind and ...
Posted by Lisa Ann on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:04:00 PST