The Who's Who Caper

Writer Lee Duran laughs in the face of adversity...usually. Surviving a life of trial and tribulation (like who hasn’t), she’s hung in there with a glass-half-full attitude. All she ever wanted to be was a writer but along the way she served time as a waitress, a nurse’s aide, assistant to a private eye, a corporate gofer and a member of the United States Navy. Eventually she became a newspaper reporter, a newspaper editor, and at long last, sold her first romance novel to Harlequin in 1988. Unfortunately, it wasn’t under her name but under the pseudonym Ruth Jean Dale. Good old Ruth Jean sold some 30+ novels to Harlequin and several novellas there and at St. Martin’s. This happy time came to a crashing halt in 2000 and she spent the next eight years as a caregiver. The publishing industry changed during that decade and is still changing. Lee now enters e-publishing with high spirits and great enthusiasm. Always fighting rebel tendencies, she can now give free rein to the different drummer which drives her. Her motto: Laugh. You’ll feel better. She hopes her DOUBLETAKE books and others to follow will give you plenty to laugh about.