Alisa Lynn Valdes is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of commercial women’s fiction and young adult novels, including The Dirty Girls Social Club. She has a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University, is a Pulitzer-nominated, award-winning former staff writer for the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times, was named the top essayist in the nation by SUNMAG, and is an Emmy-winning former TV reporter for WHDH-TV. Alisa has written and sold pilot scripts to Nickelodeon, NBC, and Lifetime Television, as well as a forthcoming feature film based on her novel The Temptation, out from Harper Teen April 2012. Her first memoir, Learning to Submit, will be published in 2013 by Gotham Books. Alisa is a mom, and she divides her time between a house in Albuquerque and her beloved cowboy’s ranch.
Glad to read your stories/blog/ramblings online again! Can’t wait for the new books!
“Ramblings”? LOL Thanks. I think.
Awwww, I love your work. Read those dirty girls and I was hooked! Glad you found peace and happiness in your life.
Alisa, I am the Head Librarian for the Estancia Public Library. We’re neighbors and I didnt even know it! i would like to invite you to visit our library. We are located an hour southwest of Albuquerque. We love love to have you speak at a group[ meeting and inspire a group of young and old to presue their dreams in writing. Please call or email me at acreamer@townofestancia.com or 505 384 9655. Thank you. Angela Creamer
Hi, Im doing a thing where i write to an author and i was wondering if i can have a publshing address or Maybe yours ?
its for my school i am in 9th grade
Pleasee help mee
Dearest Alisa,
I hope you don’t mind that I’m posting on this blog entry, but I just finished reading Lauren’s Saints of Dirty Faith, and absolutely LOVED it! I’m writing because I’m one of your biggest fans, and I also work for Blizzard Entertainment. When I read your mention of World of Warcraft in the book, I completely flipped! I thought: “Wow, I wonder if Alisa plays World of Warcraft?”
Do you have an email where I might be able to contact you? I look forward to hearing from you!
Un fuerte abrazo,
Ana Luisa Mota
amota@blizzard.com
YOU WROTE THE DIRTY GIRLS SOCIAL CLUB?!?!???? I read that at the ripe old age of 14- it was in my English teacher’s bookshelf. I was a displaced New Mexican, and found comfort in the Sucias. I can’t believe I stumbled upon the blog of an author that left such a lasting impression on me!! I don’t mean to fangirl, but that’s just so exciting for me! You are a beautiful writer, and as a twenty something that’s been involved with a few cowboys myself, I can definitely relate.
Wow! So cool you know my other work. Thank you!
Wondering circustances around how you met cowboy and how that went. As a woman also raised to “take care of yourself so you don’t have to depend on anyone else,” I’ve experienced and read enough to realize how scary that is to men who’s basic God given purpose it is to feel needed. How did he get past that….
He’s a confident man. Very confident. I think that’s the key.