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Lisa N Edwards sold her Melbourne Entertainment Agency – VisionsMCP in December 2013 to pursue her dreams. After successfully auditioning and completing NIDA’s Presenter Course in 2010, completing work experience with Sunrise and years of acting training, she focused her sights on Hollywood and travelled back and forwards from Australia for nearly 4 years, pausing momentarily to concentrate on her writing projects.. During this time, she also co-wrote an award-winning screenplay. LIMBO.
For all who know Lisa well, will know the story – Can’t Fight Fate has been inside her for a long time and waiting for the right moment to be written, and when she decided there is no right moment, there is only now, Can’t Fight Fate was born.
The next book in this series will be Chasing Butterflies.
EDUCATION
I was a late bloomer and applied to go to NIDA when I was 37. It was something I always wanted to do, and my acting teacher at the time, Aleksi Vellis encouraged me to audition. I flew to Sydney and was so incredibly nervous, and after the audition thought I had really messed it up. I was absolutely devastated, and then a week or so later received a confirmation, that I had in fact been accepted. I flew from Melbourne to Sydney every week for a year. This was the point I decided to change my life as they only accepted 12 people.
WHAT WAS YOUR DREAM CAREER?
I always wanted to be an Actress, and writing for me is an extension of that. A lot of books these days become movies. Can’t Fight Fate started as a screenplay and I had so many ideas that it became a trilogy of books.
WHAT WAS YOUR SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR THE TRILOGY?
After talking to a lot of people about psychics and how they influence your thoughts, I found most people who had experienced a psychic reading would at some stage find themselves thinking about what was said at pivotal points in their lives. Let’s face it, most of us visit psychics because we want to know if we will meet Mr/Miss Right, get our dream job, have a baby, move house. They are the usual readings, so most people at some point after the reading will think about what was said. People want to believe there is something more out there. This novel had been in my head for about 10 years before writing it, so a lot of research was done in that time.
YOU WRITE ABOUT FATE, HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE IT?
The best way I can define ‘fate’ is from a quote in my favorite movie, Serendipity. “Life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences, but rather, it’s a tapestry of events that culminates in an exquisite sublime plan.”
If we think of life as a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle the completed puzzle is what fate is. As you piece your life together you start to see the picture, I don’t believe fate changes just like the pieces of a jigsaw can’t change. They only go into place once you have completed the puzzle around them. So if we think of Fate and destiny as a jigsaw you can complete the edges, so you know where you are going, but to get there you need to do the work, complete the missing pieces.
WHEN DID YOU START WRITING AND WHAT IS THE PURPOSE?
I’ve always written for as long as I can remember, thoughts, stories, poems, songs, the purpose of my writing is so I can clear my mind, decipher my thoughts. To release them to paper seems to put them in perspective for me.
WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU WRITTEN?
I have co-written a screenplay that has won 4 awards. I have included the synopsis below.
LIMBO Synopsis
Four women on the brink of death.
Three will die.
One will live.
Who?
They must choose.
A psychological dramatic thriller, LIMBO powerfully explores life and death, God and the Devil and the viability of choice to determine one’s destiny. Four desperate women fight. Each with their own agenda. The choice is never clear. LIMBO is insightful, provocative and profound.
The mysterious figure Meikal is from a secret order of overseers of LIMBO. As fiercely as each woman guards their secrets, Meikal explosively reveals these. The women spiral in a sea of despair and desperation, as he ignites their deepest darkest fears. Elusive, dark and troubled Meikal fights to navigate the pathway directed to for him by The Order.
LIMBO – a fight for life. A fight to the death. Twisting and turning, the end is never clear. The women leave nothing to chance. Manipulating, deceiving and undermining each other to ensure what they desire becomes their reality.
The women battle wits, emotions and intelligence. Erupting with powerful, raw and jaw dropping moment that challenge the audience to identify the winner. Four women. The moment each entered Room 7- LIMBO, they had already chosen their fate. They just didn’t know it yet.
WHAT’S NEXT?
I have just completed Chasing Butterflies and I am currently writing The Seed of the Sunflower which is the final in the Can’t Fight Fate Trilogy
WHAT GENRES DO YOU LIKE TO WRITE?
Thriller and Romantic Comedy.
Thriller because I like to keep people guessing and Romantic comedy as I love, Love and love to make people smile. I find both genres entertaining, and that is my main aim when writing.
WHAT MOTIVATES YOU TO WRITE?
The stories in my head keep me writing. I write them to clear the thoughts, sometimes if I don’t write them they feel like they are circling, a good way of explaining it is kind of like a fast merry-go-round ride, or the spinning chair ride you see at an amusement parks.
HOW MUCH REAL LIFE GOES INTO YOUR FICTION NOVELS?
Lots 🙂 I draw on my own life experiences and often write in funny stories people have told me or I have seen.
FAVOURITE GENRE?
Romantic Comedy
I love, love and love laughing.
WHAT LANGUAGES CAN YOU SPEAK?
I speak English and Australia, which is English with words only Australians understand. I can write in any language with the help of Google translator. 🙂
IF YOU COULD LIVE AS A CELEBRITY LIVING OR DEAD, WHO WOULD IT BE?
I have come back to this question a few times, and each time sat and thought about who I would want to be, and the truth is I am really happy being me, I don’t want to be anyone else. It has taken me many years to accept who I am and all my strengths and weaknesses, I’m just starting to like me, it’s actually a really daunting thought to actually become someone else. I am happy to pretend to be someone else while I’m acting, but deep down I am still me.
DREAM DESTINATION?
At the moment New York, I would LOVE to see it. I want to see it so much I have written it as a location in my second book, Chasing Butterflies, that way when it becomes a film or TV series, I get to go!
FAVOURITE TIME OF DAY?
Sunrise/Sunset
STAR SIGN?
I am a Taurus with my moon in Leo – that is what I believe gives me my drive and determination.
FAVOURITE COLOUR?
This is my daughter Darcie’s favourite question to ask me, she asks every morning. Mostly my favourite colour is RED but that sometimes changes depending on my mood. The colours I like are always bright and happy, although I don’t really like yellow.
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