Posts by Lisa Unger
Beautiful Lies – 10th Anniversary!
This month marks the 10th anniversary of BEAUTIFUL LIES! To celebrate, I’m giving away 10 copies! ENTER NOW What if your family was a lie? What if your name was a lie? What if your whole life was just a pack of Beautiful Lies? If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway…
Read MoreTucson Festival of Books
What an absolutely amazing time at the 2016 Tucson Festival of Books! It was so great to see everyone, and meet some new author pals and readers. Lots of smart, fun and engaging conversations. Here are just a few pictures from the weekend with R.L. Stine, J.A. Jance, Lisa Lutz, T. Jefferson Parker, Thomas Perry,…
Read MoreAn Evening with Stephen King and John Grisham
Wow! I’m still seeing stars this morning after attending Bookends: An Evening with Two Literary Giants featuring Stephen King and John Grisham. Held at the State College of Florida and benefitting the Manatee Library Foundation, this fundraiser commanded over $200,000 last night. I was privileged to meet both authors at the VIP reception held before the…
Read MoreWomen of Mystery
Lisa Unger, Lisa Gardner & Alafair Burke Women of Mystery Thursday February 11th, 2016 at 6:30 pm Carlouel Yacht Club Clearwater Beach, Florida Women of Mystery — Join us for an evening of lively conversation between New York Times bestselling authors Alafair Burke, Lisa Gardner and Lisa Unger, as they chat about their most recent…
Read MoreTravel and Leisure – In the Key of Life
My sixteen year love affair with the Florida Keys (and my husband) in the January 2016 issue of TRAVEL AND LEISURE magazine! Pick up a copy in stores today! The first word my husband ever said to me was yum. We were on the dance floor of Sloppy Joe’s, the wild watering hole (and Ernest…
Read MoreWelcome to The Hollows
“Unger is building a sense of place for The Hollows that rivals Stephen King’s Castle Rock for continuity and creepiness.” —News & Observer, Raleigh When I first started writing about The Hollows, I didn’t think much of it. It was the fictional setting for my novel, Fragile, nestled someplace near New York City geographically, but…
Read MoreRaisins in my Palm
During the Great American Teach-In last week, I arrived a little early and caught the presentation before mine. A rabbi, the mother of one of the other students in the class, gave a presentation on mindfulness. Every kid (and adult) held a raisin in his or her palm while the rabbi asked the room to…
Read MoreSilver Falchion Award Winner
Wow, this is exciting news! I just learned that IN THE BLOOD won the 2015 Silver Falchion Award for BEST NOVEL: Crime Thriller. I’m so grateful and would like to thank “Killer Nashville” for this honor. Congrats, as well, to fellow nominees and my writer pals who won in other categories, including Hank Phillippi Ryan,…
Read MoreA Special Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading
My interview with Judy Blume at the 2015 Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading was a dream come true! But, it went so fast, and I felt like we could have kept talking for hours! My daughter Ocean and her fourth grade language arts teachers and classmates were in the front row, which made it…
Read MoreSpelunker
I’ve always been willing to follow my characters wherever they wish to take me. And they’ve taken me down the rabbit hole into addiction, psychosis, fugue states, the full rainbow of emotion and dark circumstances. I consider myself as a spelunker willing to shimmy myself into the crevices of the psyche, headlamp on, prepared to…
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