AUTHOR BIO

Libby  started writing stories when she was a child; her first sale was a short story to Redbook magazine a year after she graduated from college. It was awhile before Little, Brown published her novel Blow Out the Moon, though. The New York Public Library chose it as a Best Title for Reading & Sharing; it won a Massachusetts Book Award. Children's Literature called the novel “entirely refreshing” and the companion website “a delightful compilation.” That website still gets about 30,000 visitors  a month. 

Libby now divides her time between Stonington, Connecticut, and her shepherd’s hut on a small Scottish island. She swims in the ocean all year in both places, with the Intrepid Lasses in Stonington and Dip a Day in Scotland. For many years, Libby was a freelance editor and ghostwriter, but now she only writes her own books.

Before that, she had many writing jobs.  She  taught writing to college students at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Harvard Summer School, and later to adults from 18 to 70 at Cupertino Community College in California.Writing for Fidelity’s Web site paid enough for Libby to travel to every continent except Antarctica. She designed and taught writing workshops to grades K-6 in various places and had a number of other jobs, too, including writing documentation for Steve Jobs at NeXT (the company he founded when he was fired from Apple). She was surprised her first day at NeXT when everyone was so upset about a stolen bag of “chips.” Luckily, she didn’t say that she thought they were talking about potato chips.

Libby loves being retired. She has just completed a novel for adults, Sometimes It Takes an Island, and is having ten copies locally printed and bound for her loyal readers. Some of them read and commented on the whole book three times! She’s going to try to get it traditionally published, too, but whatever happens, there will be a physical book.