Lisa Seidman received her undergraduate degrees in English and French at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and flew to Los Angeles the day after defending her Masters thesis in English Literature at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. After starving the requisite number of years, Lisa began work as a free-lance TV writer for shows as diverse as WHIZ KIDS, CAGNEY & LACEY and SCARECROW AND MRS. KING. Two years after writing SCARECROW, Lisa was hired as Story Editor on FALCON CREST. After a year on the show, she spent two years on DALLAS as Executive Story Consultant. Lisa has also written two, one-hour dramatic pilots and co-wrote the four-hour mini-series, KNOTS LANDING: BACK TO THE CUL-DE-SAC. In between staff positions, Lisa free-lanced for STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION®, CHARLIE'S ANGELS '88, DANGEROUS CURVES, and SILK STALKINGS. She also wrote two pilots and an episode for MURDER, SHE WROTE.

Lisa Seidman is also a Writers' Guild Award-nominated television writer for SUNSET BEACH, Aaron Spelling's first daytime soap opera, for which she won a Shine award. She has also written for GENERAL HOSPITAL, ONE LIFE TO LIVE, and GUIDING LIGHT, and has spent the last two and a half years as headwriter of three successful primetime historical serials in Russia. A KILLING IN THE RATINGS, a mystery set behind the cameras, is her first novel, and she is in the process of completing a new novel, SINNERS AND LOVERS, about Henry VIII and his wives as if they lived in the latter half of the twentieth century.

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