Lisa Unger
Lisa Unger
Lisa Ungeris an American author of contemporary fiction. Her novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into twenty-six languages...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 April 1970
CountryUnited States of America
ends
In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.
interesting today died
Today something interesting happened. I died.
hips used
anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.
safe shields judgment
Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.
maybe side
Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma.
form noise
I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.
gut love powerful suspense swept teenager twisted wrenching
I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.
chaotic computer village
There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.
became trying
I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.
bound captured clock compelling dark love mystery plotting stellar ticking turning
I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.
instant
I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant gratification, or all the little things that you can do with them.
time
I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.
business publishing relationships
Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.
confident ebb exist flow knowledge needs open organic protecting vigilant village writer
Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs to be vigilant in protecting both, confident in the knowledge that the village will be there when we choose, finally, to open the door.