Biography

The daughter of a ghostwriter, she began running lines, finding words, and establishing her writing ear with her mother while still in elementary school, and was “editing” (ghosting) papers for her classmates by seventh grade. After passing the California High School Proficiency Exam at sixteen and winning an Editor’s Choice award for her first poetry submission, she wrote a series of fan-fiction books that attracted over 20,000 hits and universally positive reviews before the counter was taken down.

As her mother’s assistant, Lona repeatedly sat in on book-industry lectures, editing presentations, and Ghostwriter Training classes, automatically absorbing writing, editing, and freelancing knowledge and skills, and making her perhaps the most highly trained young ghost/editor in the country. She formally took the fourteen-week Ghostwriter Training course in 2009 to earn her ghostwriting certification and interned on a number of projects before striking out on her own. Her experience includes nonfiction (business, memoir, life trauma, parenting, history, alternative medicine, child sexual abuse, marketing, and fraud) as well as fiction (romance, fantasy, science fiction, and slice-of-life).

A “natural” and trained computer-graphic artist, Lona also provides web design, content, and web-site troubleshooting, print-material design, and cover-design services. As the Chief Operations Officer of Wambtac Communications, she helps develop publishing strategies and schedules, and remains a grad assistant for all training programs and workshops.