Allison Winn Scotch

I was born in 1973 at 3:43 in Charlottesville, VA. After my mother assured my father that yes, he could take that business trip to Montreal because, no, there was no chance that I would be making my appearance while he was gone, out I popped. Which my parents now like to use as a frequent analogy about my general attitude and overall take on life.

Er, not the kind of biographical information you were looking for? Okay, here are the more pertinent details:

After dabbling my toe in the PR, marketing and internet worlds, I discovered that there's nothing finer than a) working for yourself, b) working from home and c) getting paid to write full-time. To that end, I'm currently a frequent contributor to numerous consumer magazines including American Baby, American Way, Bride's, Cooking Light, Family Circle, Fitness, Glamour, InStyle Weddings, Lifetime Television, Men's Fitness, Men's Health, Parents, Prevention, Redbook, Self, Shape, Stuff, USA Weekend, Woman's Day, Women's Health, and ivillage.com, msn.com, and women.com, as well as American Airlines Custom Magazines and American Express Custom Magazines.

Of course, while all of the above is wonderful and fabulous and allows my heart to swell each time I walk by a newsstand, what I'm really most proud of is the publication of my novels, The Department of Lost and Found (HarperCollins, 2007) and Time of My Life (Random House, October 2008).

It goes without saying that both books make excellent Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/Mother's Day/Birthday/Arbor Day/Secretary Day/Columbus Day/Monday-Sunday gifts for all of your loved ones. For more info, check out the their respective pages of my site, which I'll update as more news flows in. Here's what Publishers Marketplace said on the deals:

"Journalist Allison Winn Scotch's debut novel, THE DEPARTMENT OF LOST AND FOUND, an entertaining and heartbreaking journey of an ambitious 30 year-old woman who faces an unexpected and harrowing challenge that shakes the very core of her existence, forcing her to reevaluate her life, rediscover what truly matters, and ultimately, reinvent everything about herself, Lucia Macro at Morrow/Avon, at auction, by Elisabeth Weed. "

-Publisher's Marketplace

Allison Winn Scotch's TIME OF MY LIFE, pitched as Sliding Doors meets The Family Man in which a 35-year old with a seemingly pitch-perfect life is haunted by her "what ifs," and wakes up one morning to discover herself seven years in the past and granted with the chance to meet the mother who abandoned her, pursue the career she left behind, chase down the man she could have married, and answer all of her lingering doubts, to Sally Kim at Shaye Areheart Books, in a pre-empt, by Elisabeth Weed at Weed Literary.

-Publisher's Marketplace

My fiction is represented by Elisabeth Weed at Weed Literary. She can be contacted at elisabeth@weedliterary.com.

Other tidbits: I graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Honors History and Concentration in Marketing from the Wharton School of Business. I am also a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

When I'm not planted in front of the computer (which is nearly always - seriously, ask anyone who knows me, I'm here - send me a note!), I'm hanging with my kids, my husband and my pooch.