Alesia Holliday
Alesia Holliday is an American author who writes under own name as well as the pseudonyms Alyssa Day and Jax Abbott.[1] She won a RITA Award, given by the Romance Writers of America for excellence in romantic fiction.
Holliday graduated from Ohio State University and Capital University Law School.[2] While working as a trial lawyer, she began writing.[3] In 2003, Holliday published a memoir, eMail to the Front, of her corespondance with her husband while he was deployed with the United States Navy.
Her first novel, a chick lit book called American Idle, was published in 2004. The book launched Dorchester's making It imprint. Publishers Weekly described it as "zany" and "humorous."[4] Holliday says that her fiction writing style influenced her legal briefs, with one judge telling her "‘I love when you come before me, because your briefs are always so entertaining'".[3] To the surprise of her law colleagues, who considered her writing a hobby, Holliday soon quit law to write full time.[3]
Holliday writes in multiple genres using multiple pseudonyms. Under her own name, she has written romantic comedies and mysteries. As Jax Abbott, she writes YA novels. As Alyssa Day, she writes paranomal romance.[1]
References
- ^ a b Florand, Laura (28 February 2007), Guest Multipersonality Disorder patient: Alesia Holliday, Laura Florand, retrieved 3 February 2020
- ^ Day, Alyssa, Biography, AlyssaDay.com, retrieved 3 February 2020
- ^ a b c Silber, Maria (17 August 2017), "These attorneys practiced law by day - and wove stories of seduction by night", The Washington Post, retrieved 3 Feb 2020
- ^ "American Idle", Publishers Weekly, 26 July 2004, retrieved 3 Feb 2020