Lisa Wingate
Books
Non-Series Novels
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(2008) Talk of the Town See Review
Tending Roses Series
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(2007) A Thousand Voices
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(2006) Drenched in Light
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(2005) The Language of Sycamores
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(2003) Good Hope Road
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(2001) Tending Roses See Review
Texas Hill Country Series
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(2009) Word Gets Around See Review
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(2005) Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner
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(2004) Lone Star Café
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(2003) Texas Cooking
Profile
Lisa Wingate lives in central Texas where she is a popular inspirational speaker, magazine columnist, and national bestselling author of several books. Her novel, Tending Roses, received dozens of five-star reviews, sold out nine printings for New York publisher, Penguin Putnam, and went on to become a national bestselling book. Tending Roses was a selection of the National Readers Club of America, and is currently in its tenth printing.
The Tending Roses series continued with Good Hope Road, The Language of Sycamores, andDrenched In Light. In 2003, Lisa's Texas Hill Country series began with Texas Cooking, and continued with Lone Star Café, which was awarded a gold medal by RT BOOKCLUB magazine and was hailed by Publisher's Weekly as “A charmingly nostalgic treat.” Her Texas series concluded with Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner, which was hailed by Kirkus reviews as “A charming love story with…a new age twist.” Lisa's books have been featured by the National Reader's Club of America, AOL Book Picks, Doubleday Book Club, The Literary Guild, and have been chosen for the LORIES best Published Fiction Award.
When not busy writing books, Lisa spends time speaking to numerous groups about writing, family relationships, generational connections, community ties, writing, and rural nostalgia. Via the Internet, she shares with readers as far away as India, where her book, Tending Roses, has been used to promote women's literacy, and as close to home as Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the county library system used Tending Roses to help volunteer mentors teach adults to read.
Recently, Americans for More Civility, a kindness watchdog organization, selected Lisa along with Bill Ford, Camille Cosby, and six others, as recipients of the National Civies Award, which celebrates public figures who work to promote greater kindness and civility in American life.
