Writing a report? Here’s some FAQs!īaby of the family-two older sisters and one older brotherįavorite color is orange but really all fall colors are great Originally hailing from Los Angeles, CA, Lisa now lives in Northern California with her husband, two kids, big cat, and more yard than she can control. As a Black girl going to predominantly white schools, Lisa had similar questions growing up, and although A Good Kind of Trouble isn’t auto-biographical, it does capture some of the confusion and questions Lisa had about friendship and romance and race at that time. She sputtered around with other tales and finally settled on a book about a young girl struggling to figure out how race impacted her life. The first one was an adult horror story, due to her long love of Stephen King novels, but she couldn’t quite capture the darkness King is such a master of. She started writing short pieces and even got a few published online and then tried her hand at a novel.
Skip ahead many years later and while getting her MA in English Literature, Lisa discovered her words didn’t need to stay hidden any longer. Lisa learned a valuable lesson: keep the notebook at home. The notebook was found, friendships were broken. Things went a little sideways when in fifth grade, after reading Harriet the Spy, she started carrying around a notebook, and scribbling thoughts about her classmates. Creating complicated further adventures of her favorite characters, with herself planted right in the midst of it. Instead of writing fan fiction, she practiced fan drama. Picturing herself in the stories she read. Kids books, adult books-some that her mother took out of Lisa’s room and hid because they were too mature.Īnd when Lisa wasn’t reading, she was in her room pretending. Fantasy, contemporary, adventure, mystery, classics, romance. It was like having a magical portal to thousands of other worlds right outside her door. Outside Lisa’s childhood bedroom was a hallway lined with bookcases. Something to Say came out in July, 2020 and Mapmaker will hit shelves in 2022. A Good Kind of Trouble, her debut novel, published in Spring 2019.
It took some time before she got around to writing her second one. Lisa Moore Ramee wrote her first book in second grade.
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