About Elisa Lorello
Photo by Casey Page
I wasn’t always a novelist, but I have been a writer and teacher throughout my life.
I grew up on Long Island, the youngest of seven children as a bona fide member of Generation X. After working as a retail store manager and a manicurist in my early 20s, I earned my bachelor’s and master’s degrees (psychology and professional writing) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and taught rhetoric and writing at the college level for more than ten years. In 2012 I became a full-time novelist.
To date, I have written and published ten novels, a memoir about my lifelong love for the band Duran Duran, and The Writer’s Habit, which inspired a blog and website, and workshops in storytelling, writing process, and rhetoric. I approach each with enthusiasm and humor.
My books have sold almost 500,000 units worldwide. I characterize my novels as “Romance Rhetoric”—stories about relationships a la Nora Ephron, but with Aaron Sorkin-like dialogue.
In addition to guest posts on Jane Friedman‘s and the Writer’s Digest blogs, and speaking appearances at libraries and schools in various states, I have been featured in the Montana Quarterly magazine, the Rachael Ray Every Day magazine, the Charlotte Observer, and Last Best News. I was a guest speaker at the Triangle Association of Freelancers 2012 and 2014 Write Now! conferences, and in May 2016 I presented a lesson for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association spring workshop.
In addition to Long Island and Massachusetts, I have also lived in North Carolina. In 2016, I moved to Montana to be with Craig Lancaster (also a best-selling novelist), whom I married in October of the same year. Two years later, we moved to Midcoast Maine.
I grew up on Long Island, the youngest of seven children as a bona fide member of Generation X. After working as a retail store manager and a manicurist in my early 20s, I earned my bachelor’s and master’s degrees (psychology and professional writing) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and taught rhetoric and writing at the college level for more than ten years. In 2012 I became a full-time novelist.
To date, I have written and published ten novels, a memoir about my lifelong love for the band Duran Duran, and The Writer’s Habit, which inspired a blog and website, and workshops in storytelling, writing process, and rhetoric. I approach each with enthusiasm and humor.
My books have sold almost 500,000 units worldwide. I characterize my novels as “Romance Rhetoric”—stories about relationships a la Nora Ephron, but with Aaron Sorkin-like dialogue.
In addition to guest posts on Jane Friedman‘s and the Writer’s Digest blogs, and speaking appearances at libraries and schools in various states, I have been featured in the Montana Quarterly magazine, the Rachael Ray Every Day magazine, the Charlotte Observer, and Last Best News. I was a guest speaker at the Triangle Association of Freelancers 2012 and 2014 Write Now! conferences, and in May 2016 I presented a lesson for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association spring workshop.
In addition to Long Island and Massachusetts, I have also lived in North Carolina. In 2016, I moved to Montana to be with Craig Lancaster (also a best-selling novelist), whom I married in October of the same year. Two years later, we moved to Midcoast Maine.
Banner and wedding photos by Lennon Photo
A few of my favorite things (aside from writing and my husband):
Reading
Walking
Spending time with friends and/or family
Nutella
All things Duran Duran.
Baked goods
Spatz, our cat
The beach
Reading
Walking
Spending time with friends and/or family
Nutella
All things Duran Duran.
Baked goods
Spatz, our cat
The beach
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