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Lisa Devaney

Goodreads Author

Born

in Portland, Maine, The United States

Website

http://www.lisadevaney.com

Twitter

http://www.twitter.com/lisadevaney

Genre

Fiction, Science Fiction, Chick Lit

Influences

The Hunger Games, E.L. James, Rachel Carson, seaweed, plants, the gree ...more

Member Since

April 2014

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Lisa Devaney is an American indie author living in London, England. Her debut novel In Ark is a sci-fi (and cli-fi for the new genre climate change fiction) set in New York City in the year 2044. Living with the impact of climate change, the main character, Mya Brand, struggles to survive until she is abducted by an eco-survivalist community that promises that her dreams will come true.

The author has spent a lifetime fascinated by the various storytelling mediums. As a child, she wrote and illustrated her own comic strip and won writing contests at the age of seven. Later, while single and living in New York City in the 1990’s, she turned herself into an online cartoon character called (((Futuregirl))) and also transformed her friends into Lisa Devaney is an American indie author living in London, England. Her debut novel In Ark is a sci-fi (and cli-fi for the new genre climate change fiction) set in New York City in the year 2044. Living with the impact of climate change, the main character, Mya Brand, struggles to survive until she is abducted by an eco-survivalist community that promises that her dreams will come true.

The author has spent a lifetime fascinated by the various storytelling mediums. As a child, she wrote and illustrated her own comic strip and won writing contests at the age of seven. Later, while single and living in New York City in the 1990’s, she turned herself into an online cartoon character called (((Futuregirl))) and also transformed her friends into cartoons, displaying these characters on her Fgirl.TV website. She bravely decided to take her make-believe character offline and started performing in SLAM poetry-style venues around New York City. Soon, she became widely known as (((Futuregirl))) and was often spotted out in the club scene dressed up as this superhero character.

Moving to London in 2004, she took to the stage producing and performing her own cabaret shows, introducing audiences to her American hillbilly comedy skit The Hee Haw Whore House. She also produced and performed as Toad in a rendition of the classic Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s tale The Wind in the Willows at the legendary music and arts festival The Secret Garden Party.

Devaney also has a successful career as a publicist, including representing numerous technology clients through her consultancy agency Hai Media Group. Prior to this, she had her career as an award-winning newspaper reporter. Finding herself unemployed following the events of 9/11 in New York City, she co-founded an organization called WeWantWork.com to promote a group of professionals needing jobs. Her efforts to promote this group won headlines around the world, and, as the group’s spokesperson, she was featured by CNN, NBC’s The Today Show, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and many more outlets.

Now part of the social media generation, she has adapted enthusiastically to this new storytelling medium. She can be found on Twitter (@lisadevaney) or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lisadevaneythewriter.
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