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About Luanne Oleas
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Luanne Oleas was born in the Salinas Valley, the setting for her novel FLYING BLIND, A Cropduster's Story. It won the East of Eden Writers Conference novel-writing contest and the 2018 San Mateo County Fair Publishers Choice award for new novels.
She has also published A PRIMROSE IN NOVEMBER, a family saga set in England and France in the 1970s about revenge and second chances.
Her current work in progress includes a three-novel series with Silicon Valley startups as the backdrop.
- SHEDDING CATS: A technical writer with too many cats renews her soulmate search.
- WHEN ALICE PLAYED THE LOTTERY: A widow & her coworkers at a failing startup live out their newfound wealth and love lives on reality TV.
- WILD DANCING: An all-consuming startup takes priority, leading a married woman to teach an unmarried man how to dance.
Luanne lives in California with her husband, a former cropduster, and their cat, Blackberry. She previously worked as a reporter, features writer and humor columnist for The Californian, a Gannett newspaper, and then as a technical writer in Silicon Valley. Her newspaper columns have been reprinted in Readers Digest, Parenting Magazine, The San Jose Mercury, and on the Web.