Embrace Me
By Lisa Samson

About Embrace Me
A scarred woman immersed in the strange world of a traveling circus finds love of another kind. Valentine endlessly listens to her mother's old copy of "Embraceable You" on an old phonograph, but her own life hardly begs for romance. Her deepening friendship with a quadriplegic woman offers a welcome, if frustrating, sense of dependence, but romantic love is nowhere in sight. Then along comes a dread-locked and scarred local with a hidden history and a compelling present. Will Valentine find the embrace she longs for?

About Lisa Samson
Just writing a new bio can be daunting. The fact that this is an auto-biography makes it doubly so, because, I can hardly write a smorgasbord of glowing accolades about myself, now can I? All right, I guess a lot of people do, but we know they're doing it and it seems a little braggy. So I'll give you just the facts.

Since a timeline seems to work so well for The End Times crowd, I thought I'd follow suit:

1964: born Baltimore Maryland to Bill and Joy Ebauer

1967: tonsillectomy and boy did that hurt!

1971: first holy communion

1972: was told the communists would take over in two years; started piano lessons

1974: was unbelievably relieved when they didn't. am still pretty glad.

1975: made the Junior High cheerleading squad; won first place in the regional art competition for the famed work, "Mouse Under A Mushroom".

1976: had the Dorothy Hamill hairdo, took a shine to David G., madly in love with Brian W. while somewhere in New Jersey, Will Samson had a crush on somebody other than me.

1977: sister graduated from high school, made the Junior Varsity cheerleading squad.

1978: concert choir, Varsity cheerleading

1982: graduated from high school and left for college at

1983: Bob Jones University - majored in Film

1984: Towson State for a semester - majored in getting the crappy stuff out of the way

1985: Liberty University: majored in Television Production

1986: Met Will Samson in the Fall; thought, "Nice feet!" and never went out with anybody else again.

1987: Engaged in May, as well as graduated with a BS in Telecommunications

1988: Married the guy in February

1989: Had Ty in November (way more than nine months from the wedding date, okay?)

1992: August 8th began writing first novel: The Highlander and His Lady.

1994: Jake born in July, The Highland and His Lady hits shelves in August, hold first published copy in my hands on August 8th. More books come on and off

1997: Gwynneth is born in January, we move to Maryland to care for my mother; more books

2001: Mom passes away, responsibilities lighten a bit, begin a new odyssey of depression; The Church Ladies is released in the spring - a new direction in writing

2002: Women's Intuition releases

2003: Songbird and The Living End release

2004: Diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome and realize that life may indeed be too short. Take a year-long sabbatical. Songbird wins the Christy Award for best contemporary novel of Tiger Lillie releases.

2005: Move to Kentucky to live in intentional Christian community and see what kind of trouble I can get myself into. Writing once again. Club Sandwich releases. Begin speaking arm of career.

2006: I'm still here. Apples of Gold, my first illustrated book for older girls, set to release in August; Straight Up releases in September. Begin working on my first YA series, Hollywood Nobody

2007: Quaker Summer releases, as does Hollywood Nobody. Working on Embrace Me (Thomas Nelson-Feb. 2008). Getting Gwynnie through fifth grade homework.

2008: has just begun!

These days, I'm working on the novelization of the movie Bella, editing fiction for David C. Cook, and writing my own stuff. Ty and I are set to go to Swaziland from Jan. 23rd to February 3rd after which we will be writing a book together on our experience with Africa and the AIDS crisis. Gwynnie still has tons of homework.

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