Louise Warner's short stories have appeared in the Armchair Aesthete and the Pegasus Review.  Her articles have appeared in Entrepreneurial Woman Magazine, Denver Business Journal and other publications.  She was President of Foothills Writers Club from 1993 to 1998, and she won a writing award from the Denver Women's Press Club.  She is actively seeking a publisher for three novel length fictional manuscripts.  Ms. Warner participates in the Internet Writing Workshop.

     Ms. Warner received a B.A. with Honors from Purchase College and a J.D. from Rutgers.  She is an active volunteer in the community and for political causes.  For seven years, Ms. Warner was a volunteer narrator of books on tape at the Colorado Talking Book Library.  Three years of service to public radio as a volunteer D.J. led her into acting.  Warner has appeared in theater productions, television shows and films.

     Ms. Warner's first three manuscripts draw on her experiences as a lawyer and mother.  In her fourth manuscript, now in progress, her work as an actress is fictionalized as well.

Writers' conferences and Seminars attended:

   Lighthouse Literary Festival 2006

   Lighthouse Literary Festival 2007

   Pikes Peak Writers Conference 2005

   Aspen Literary Festival 2005

   Aspen Literary Festival 2006

   Book Expo America 2003

   Writing Fiction (Joanne Greenberg)

   About Fiction Writing (Clive Cussler)

   How to Get Published (Steven Coonts)

   The Writing Life

   Get the Fat out of your Writing

   How to Plot a Bestseller Novel

   What Writing Courses Don't Tell You (Ed Bryant)

   Women's Fiction (Mary Jo Adamson)

   Mystery Writers' Tricks of the Trade (Warwick Downing)

   Writing the Courtroom Drama (Warwick Downing)

   Writing True Crime (Michael Weissberg)

   Writing True Crime (Harry MacLean)

   Finding the Short Story (Steven Schwartz)

   Writing Science Fiction (Dan Simmons)

   Writing the Mystery Story (Rex Burns)

   Getting Published (Panel of Publishers' Representatives)

   Protecting Your Work

   Writing without Fear

   Mid-listers/Bestsellers (Warwick Downing)

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    "Lesson in Joy and Pain," The Pegasus Review, March/April 2000
    "Near New," The Armchair Aesthete, Winter 1999
    "Small Business Largesse," CACTO Report, Spring 1994
    "To Give or Not to Give," Urban Spectrum, December 1993
    "Basics of Business Savvy," Entrepreneurial Woman, May 1993.
    Award Winner, Denver Women's Press Club Unknown Writer's Contest,
        May 1991
    "Raccoons in Suburbia," Peak to Prairie, May 1998
    "Resurrection of A Neighborhood," Urban Spectrum, August 1992
    "Self Employment Secrets," Small Business Review, April 1992
    "Small Town Life," Small Business Review, July 1992
    "A Cacophony of Quaffing," Small Business Review, July 1992
    "An Investment in Compassion," Small Business Review, August 1992
    "BRAIN - The Giant of Libraries", Small Business Review,
        August 1992
    "SofTeach," Small Business Review, September 1992
    "Streamlining Adult Learning," Small Business Review,
        September 1992
    "Upstairs Downstairs," Small Business Review, June 1992
    "The Business of Pleasure," Small Business Review, June 1992
    "Develop your International Savvy," Denver Business Journal,
        May 15, 1992
    "Colorado's Global Marketplace", The Prism, Autumn 1991
    Edited CACTO Report, 1992 - 1993
    "Food and Risk", Colorado Foreign Trade Office
    College Thesis on Constitutional Law and Privacy (Highest Honors)
    Monthly humor column, The Advocate, 1991
    Press releases for Clive Cussler, Joanne Greenberg, Steven Coonts
        and many other renowned authors as President and Vice
        President, National Writers Association Foothills Chapter
        1989-1999
    And many others
 

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SONYA'S FIRM

    Ditching the New York law firm that pays Sonya a secretary’s salary for attorney work is not an option.  This is her fourth job in the three years since her poor showing in law school.  Her refusals of the advances of every boss have been her undoing.  At a wedding, she meets Eric and falls in love.  Then a partner propositions her and she quits.  That night, the partner is murdered and she is a suspect.  Unemployment and terror imprison her until the real murderer is arrested.  Life begins again when she and Eric are wed, and her position is finally secure.  Her new employer is the best — the law firm of Sonya Powell, Attorney at Law.

FREEDOM LESSONS

         Cars distract Carl from a job he can’t stand.  Volunteering helps Laura forget the tension of practicing law.  Their daughter yearns to save condors from extinction.  Then an initiative ending "special" rights for lawyers passes, nearly bankrupting Laura's firm and forcing her into activism.  At Carl’s job, a coworker takes him hostage.  Carl convinces the man to surrender and quits to launch a career in yoga.  The movement to overturn the initiative builds, and at Julia’s graduation, Carl and Laura enjoy a new appreciation of personal and political freedom.

THESE ROOMS

    Nora thought lawyering would bring prestige.  But cutthroat colleagues pound her spirit.  Then a client she breaks her back for makes allegations that jeopardize her marriage and her license to practice.  Mothering twins is her only source of joy until an affair convinces her that passion in love and work can be hers.  A hectic birthday, a headhunter who ridicules her for wanting work to be fun, and a visit to juvenile prison provide enlightenment .  Determined to craft a better life for herself, she scraps her law license, then files for divorce.  Overjoyed, she sings in the street.

MEDIUM REAL (1/2 complete)

     Aimee’s radio show and law practice are so busy that she doesn’t know raccoons live in her chimney, or that her boyfriend has a secret life of crime.  When “Law Talk” is made the lead-in to the “Ask Dr. Polly” show, she tries to avoid Polly, who believes wives should obey husbands and that ova are “itty bitty babies”.  Aimee’s father dies and depression weighs her down.  Rumors about bad behavior end Polly’s reign as the queen of morals.  Then “Law Talk” replaces “Ask Dr. Polly”, and a neighbor who borrows her mower wins her heart. 

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