Lou Aronica is the author of the USA Today bestselling novel The Forever Year and the national bestsellers Blue, When You Went Away, The Journey Home, and Leaves. He collaborated on the New York Times nonfiction bestsellers The Element and Finding Your Element (both with Sir Ken Robinson) and Limitless (with Jim Kwik), and the USA Today bestsellers The Greatest You (with Trent Shelton) and The Culture Code (with Clotaire Rapaille). Aronica is a long-term book publishing veteran, and he is a past president of the writers organization Novelists Inc. He is the father of four children and lives with his wife in Stamford, CT. Steven Womack began his first novel when he was eighteen-years-old. A short eighteen years later, he finally sold one. His first published novel, Murphy's Fault, was the only debut mystery on the 1990 New York Times Notable Book List. Since then, he has published ten more novels, winning both the Edgar and Shamus Awards, as well as receiving multiple nominations for major mystery awards. He is the author of the Edgar and Shamus Award-winning Harry James Denton series, which includes Dead Folks' Blues, Torch Town Boogie, Way Past Dead, Nobody's Chain Lays Straight, A Manual Of Murder, and Dirty Money. A scriptwriter as well, Womack co-wrote the screenplays for Proudheart, which was nominated for the CableAce Award, and Volcano: Fire On The Mountain, an ABC television movie that was one of the most-watched television movies of the year. Womack lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where for twenty-five years he anchored the screenwriting program at the Watkins Film School of Watkins College of Art. He also served five years as Chair of The Film School. When the college closed in May, 2020, he was the longest serving faculty member at the college. A licensed pilot, Womack loves to fly and scuba dive in his spare time. Unfortunately, there hasn't been any spare time since 2001.
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"A unique story with plenty to ponder and excite, Blue will prove moving and very hard to put down."-- "Midwest Book Review" "Author Lou Aronica creates a world that manages to be both surreal and tangible. Reading this book is like experiencing a lucid dream with depth and detail that play on all five senses."-- "Blogcritics" "Blue is an emotional, thought-provoking story that reaches in and squeezes the heart.... Blue made me cry and laugh. It enlivened my imagination and offered hope. This story is full of subtleties that tease the mind. I'm sure new wonders will come to light each time the story is read--it is a story to be enjoyed more than once. Becky and her Tamarisk Kingdom will be remembered long after the last words of Blue are read."-- "Long and Short Reviews" "Take a trip with Lou Aronica that brings back your love of magic and everything it can make possible as you immerse yourself in his thought-provoking, creative novel, Blue.... A story to remember and cherish, Blue and Lou Aronica have a few surprises in store that will leave you will wondering "what if?" Blue by talented Lou Aronica will become a resident of your keeper shelf, a book to pull out and read again and each time you will find something more in its pages."-- "Single Titles"