Lisa Patton
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After thirteen years at an all-girls school in Memphis and a house full of sisters, Lisa Patton headed for co-ed life at the University of Alabama where she majored in Fun and Communications and double minored in English and Theatre. Shortly after graduation she returned home to Memphis where she prioritized her passion for acting and music, landing a job as manager of the Historic Orpheum Theatre. Four years later she transitioned into radio promotions at WMC–FM 100, the landmark Memphis Adult Contemporary station. It was there she received Billboard Magazine’s Promotion Director of the Year Award. The birth of her two sons made it difficult to emcee nightly charity auctions and movie premieres, so Lisa shifted to the NBC affiliate, WMC-TV Channel 5, as their Promotion Director. Writing both radio and TV promo spots, character voice bits, and news promos made up a large part of both broadcasting positions. A three-year stint as an innkeeper in Vermont added diversity to her deeply southern roots and it was there Lisa got the inspiration for her bestselling debut novel, WHISTLIN’ DIXIE IN A NOR’EASTER. While she loved the Vermonters and considered snow skiing at her fingertips a dream come true, three sub-zero winters proved enough already, so she pointed her compass south again and sped back to Tennessee to thaw. Two years later she returned to the music industry and was hired by Michael McDonald, The Doobie Brother's front man and multi–Grammy Award winning songwriter, as his right-hand person. She worked on multiple albums and video projects including the Grammy nominated, certified Platinum, MOTOWN. A breast cancer thriver, Lisa is now the bestselling author of WHISTLIN’ DIXIE IN A NOR’EASTER and YANKEE DOODLE DIXIE. Both novels have been featured on the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Bestseller List and in 2010 Lisa was selected by Target as an Emerging Author. SOUTHERN AS A SECOND LANGUAGE is the third and final book in what Library Journal calls, “The beloved Dixie series.” Lisa’s fourth novel, RUSH, set inside a fictional sorority house at Ole Miss, provides not only a gaze inside the most exclusive sorority recruitment in the country, but at the relationships between the sisters and the house staff. It is a story of friendship, female empowerment and social justice. RUSH, was a summer 2018 Okra Pick from SIBA, as well as a SIBA bestseller. Lisa's fifth novel, KISSING THE SKY, a story set at Woodstock 1969, marks her natural foray into historical fiction and is an “Editor’s Choice” from the Historical Novel Society. When asked about her biggest influences, Lisa credits three funny redheads: Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett and Fannie Flagg. Currently at work on her next novel, Lisa is the proud mother of two sons, nine bonus children and twelve grandchildren. She and her husband live in the rolling hills of Nashville, Tennessee with their four-legged furry son named Handsome and their four-legged furry daughter named Daisy.
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