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Livia J. Washburn
(Notify me via e-mail when Livia J. Washburn releases a new book.) I have lived my entire life in the small town of Azle, Texas. Azle is located just northwest of Fort Worth, so while I can live the small town life, I have the big city just a few miles away. Both of my parents were stay at home parents. Paul and Naomi went to beautician school and got their licenses while they built onto their house so they'd have a place to work and raise their children. They love to tell stories about how I climbed up the ladder when I was two years old while they were working on the roof. So I grew up with the smells of hair dye and permanents, but I also had both parents anytime I really needed them. And let me tell you with two older brothers, all three of us needed them. Like when I set off the roman candle in the house, or when the huge snake chased us into the house. They didn't close the shop until Bruce, Arlon, and I were old enough to manage on our own. This is when my father went back to work at General Dynamics and my mother went back to school to get her teaching degree. She then taught first grade for 26 years. James Reasoner came into my life through my oldest brother, Bruce. They'd known each other since first grade, but they didn't start hanging around together until they attended the same university. We started dating when I was a senior in high school. James was writing his own fiction even back then. I kind of stumbled into the business after we married, while I was typing his manuscripts, seeing different ways the story could have gone. Our careers grew as our family did. We were blessed with two beautiful daughters. We live in a house we built ourselves with the help of family. We did everything from the pier and beam foundation poured with buckets, to shingling the roof. I found that I love carpentry and tools. James has it easy for presents; all he has to do is buy the latest tool I've been yearning for. The latest was a cordless nail gun. My first story was published in 1978 in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. My first novel was published in '83 as by Livia James. In the eighties I had several westerns published in hardback by M. Evans, while I was writing mysteries under my maiden name Washburn. My first mystery WILD NIGHT was recently reprinted. WILD NIGHT was the winner of The American Mystery Award and The Private Eye Writers of America's Best Original Paperback Award. This is also when both our daughters were born, and we became the stay at home parents. Our writing careers had progressed to the point we could both work full time. James and I wrote several historical novels as by J.L. Reasoner, one of which was nominated for a Spur, the Western Writers of America award. My first small town romance, MENDING FENCES by Livia Reasoner, an Our Town book, was published in January of '98 by Jove. Under the name Elizabeth Hallam, SPIRIT CATCHER was published by Jove, July '98 in their Haunting Hearts series and during the summer of '99 my medieval paranormal ALURA'S WISH was followed by TIME PASSAGES: YESTERDAY'S FLAME, a time travel romance that came out in February 2000. It wasn't until recently that I went back to my first love, mysteries with the October 2006 release of A PEACH OF A MURDER. |
Books
Murder By the Slice
Murder By The Slice
A Peach of a Murder |
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