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Full Name: Lisa Stephanie Girolami

Pronunciation: Jur-ALL-um-ee
Nationality: 1/2 Italian, 1/4 English, 1/4 Norwegian

Birthplace: Modesto, California, USA

Birthday: September 13

Sign: Virgo
Typical Virgo?: Afraid so.
Bachelors degree: Fine Art
Masters degree: Psychology

Nicknames:

Stuffy (ages 2 - 5, my brothers were having fun with my middle name),

Germ (5th and 6th grade, it was too hard for my classmates to pronounce Girolami),

Rainbow (junior high during the Vietnam War in the early 70's),

Bo (derivative of rainbow, as an undergrad in college),

LisaLisa (during the 80's "Cult Jam" days),

Showgoddess (when I was the show producer on Universal's Islands of Adventure),

Girolami (used by most of my friends and co-workers pretty much all the time now).

Famous relatives: Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) (inventor of the radio)

First job (after the babysitting years): Worked in a Cardiologist's office in 1973 making $1.75/hour
Novels written: 7 (and 1 screenplay...hey, I live in LA, whaddaya expect?!)
Novels published: 3 and 2 short stories in 2 BSB anthologies.
Three albums to be stranded on an island with: Sheryl Crow's Live in Central Park, Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy, Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Movies I wish I could have worked on:

Fried Green Tomatoes ("That's what you are, a bee charmer."),

Dirty Dancing ("No one puts baby in a corner!"),

The Godfather ("Goddamn FBI don't respect nothin'."),

Pulp Fiction ("If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions."),

Arthur ("Don't you hate Perry's wife?"),

Fargo ("I think I'm gonna throw up...oh, it passed.").

Movies I wish I'd never worked on:
Hello Again (a certain actress made us all nuts)
Refrigeration (caught pneumonia on the shoot)
Favorite authors: Nicola Griffiths, Radclyffe, Kelley Eskridge, Karin Kallmaker, Katherine V. Forrest, Fannie Flagg, and anything by Dean Koontz

Best non-fiction books read while in graduate school: Trapped in the Mirror by Elan Golomb and Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller

Worst vice: gambling in Vegas

Best vice: gambling in Vegas
Favorite vacation places: Salzburg, Austria; Paris, France; Oaxaca, Mexico; Orlando, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; Cambria, California; Banff, Canada.
What's recording on my DirecTV box: Dexter (best show on TV), Flash Forward, Fringe, The Good Wife, Most Haunted.
DVD that's in my player: Deadwood, season three
 
And I'll be happy to add to this if asked : )
 

New questions requested:
Hardest part about writing: Starting.
Easiest part about writing: Dialogue usually comes easily, especially when the characters are developed enough to virutally tell me what they want to say.
What do you do in your free time?: See worst and best vice (above). Actually, my free time is taken up a lot with writing. There's always something to work on with the current and new novels. But my free-free time is spent relaxing at home and traveling.
Scariest moment?: Giving CPR...twice - once to a stranger and once to my old girlfriend's father.
Broken Bones?: (interesting question!) Ah...two fingers (softball), my wrist (softball), a couple toes (sheer clumsiness) and my nose (airbag attack during a T-bone car accident).
Tattoos: Yes. Currently I have 22. Some are kinda visible and the rest make up the unfinished sock (like a "sleeve" but on the knee to ankle) that I'm in the middle of. Consider this my midlife crisis, but cheaper than a red Corvette.
Single?: No.
 
 

 

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