LC Giroux

Wow, has it been a long time since this was updated! Here is the 2024 story.

Best-selling author Lisette (Dropped the initials, it just got too confusing) Giroux writes smart, sexy, fun, romances of all kinds. She has written over 12 (now 23! with a few more on the way!) books that are as much about the love of a family as about any one couple. Coming from a big French-Canadian and Italian family, she couldn't write love stories any other way. Not surprisingly, her stories also include a fair bit of food and men who cook and clean. And no, they aren't fantasy. (Ok, maybe wish fulfillment.)

Romance might seem an odd fit after an architecture degree and jobs in everything from cosmetics to accounting to molecular biology but five minutes into their first date she knew she had met her future husband (Now Ex-Husband, but we had a good run). It has been twenty years, a kid, their fair share of richer, poorer, sickness, and health later and she still believes in a happy ending (Still believe in the happy ending, but my stories have changed, less insta-love unless you are a werewolf, more figuring out how to work it out).

While romance author is the last in a long line of diverse careers (added another couple recently, day jobs, am I right?) it is by far her favorite. She now likes to say that all that career indecision was just research for her writing career. She hasn't even begun to tap into the stories from her time in the Air Force.

Being a tech geek, self publishing was a natural fit for her and she dove in head first. Her first book was published in 2011 and only after it was uploaded for sale did she realize that maybe getting an editor might not be a bad idea. She won't ever make that mistake again! The following book was the beginning of her Lovers and Other Strangers series. When she started it was just to prove that she had more than one book in her. When the best friend character proved too good to pass up and got a story of his own, it became a series of 12 books and 4 novellas. She enjoys writing about imperfect heroes and heroines of all types and sizes who grow into themselves over the course of a book.

Working at a major research university while writing, one of her students started asking her for tips to publish her own work and another new career was born. L.C. has taught her mechanics of self publishing at the university level and at writer's conferences. She is working to bring that and other courses online through her website justpublishyourself.com (Don't go there, I don't have time to teach the self-pub stuff anymore!)

In 2014 she branched out to new adult with her Society series set in an ivy league secret society and Washington D.C. She also opened the vault on her cosmetics experience and started her Dolci Cosmetics series. This series is set in New York and Rome and features the glamour of fashion and beauty as well as the glittering world of high stakes business.

(I still want to do the Cosmetics company series it is just too much fun not to, the secret society books got morphed with some paranormal stuff and will get released as a Romantasy series in the near future. Seriously I have more ideas than time but I think that is true for most writers.

When Lisette isn't writing, she is hanging out with her family and dogs who are a lot more fun than anything on television. She has lived in more college towns than is good for anyone over the age of thirty. She finds it fertile ground for more story ideas.

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