ABOUT THE AUTHOR
When Lisa Oldham was in the third
grade at Pinecrest Elementary school, her teacher gave the class an assignment
every Friday afternoon: write a "journal" about what they did over the
weekend, for the teacher to read on Monday morning.
One Monday morning, Lisa's teacher read her journal entry about a weekend trip her family
had taken to a farm. The teacher was so impressed that she announced Lisa had a
"gift" for writing.
Lisa has tried to use that gift ever since. While still at Pinecrest, she and a friend wrote and illustrated a monthly magazine by hand on sheets of notebook paper tied together with string. (Number of subscribers: one.) As a teenager, Lisa wrote columns for mimeographed newsletters read by collectors of model horse figurines. She even wrote a novel about a wild mustang stallion, inspired by her favorite model horse. But, don't look for it at the library: this novel, like the magazine, was also handwritten on notebook paper and bound with string.
Thankfully, the electronic age of publishing dawned, allowing Lisa to switch from notebook paper to a netbook. Combining her love of writing with a life-long enthusiasm for entertainment, she now writes and maintains The Brettish Empire , the original online fansite about British actor Jeremy Brett; this site, Paul Richards: Special Guest Star; and The Tall Dark Stranger There..., a blog about Jack Kelly, "that Maverick actor and more".
Lisa has attended several writing conferences and in 2010 was a featured guest on the "Three Wise Girls" podcast on Blog Talk Radio, where she discussed her online writing platform.
Lisa is currently working on preliminary research for a biography of actor Paul Richards. She hopes it will be her first book that isn't published on lined three-hole punched paper.