Leslie Ferdinand

Leslie C. Ferdinand and her mother, Shirley H. Ferdinand have been writing together since 1991. They were both born in New Orleans and lived there until 2005 when they lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, including Leslie’s dog.  Leslie is divorced and has three daughters.  She is Shirley’s only child.

They got their first agent in 1995 and sold their first book in 1997.  A Time For Us was released in September 1998.  Leslie was so excited to see the book on the Barnes and Noble bookshelf in Metairie, she purchased all 5 copies.  One of her friends later remarked that the idea of your book being in bookstores is for other people to be able to read and buy them.  Under their Christine Holden pen name, Leslie and Shirley sold five books to Berkley/Jove between 1998 and 2001. Their last book, Dearest Beloved, had a foreign edition in Dutch. 

On August 28, 2005, Leslie and her family evacuated to Terrell, Texas.  Leslie’s youngest daughter was 13 days old and they’d been home 8 days.  Leslie went from healing, still recovering from her C-Section, to driving her daughters and mother away from the approaching storm. In November 2005, they moved to Rosenberg, TX to be closer to their family, who’d evacuated to the Houston Metro Area.  In 2006, Leslie appeared on the Rachel Ray Show as a Hurricane Katrina survivor.  Not long after, Leslie and Shirley began writing again, finishing Picture Perfect in early 2010. In between that time, Leslie started Inside Rose Rich Magazine.  Later in 2010, Leslie and Shirley was picked up by D4EO Literary Agency.  In June 2011, they began working on Wicked Allure.  What began as an unsolicited proposal for Harlequin Blaze ended up becoming their first self-published book.

Picture Perfect will be released in earl 2013 by Liquid Silver Books. Meanwhile, they are working on another book to submit to their agent and the sequel to Wicked Allure.