Author L.A. Starks Biography

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L. A. Starks' first thriller has been favorably compared by reviewers and readers to books by Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy, and John Grisham. It is available in multiple e-book formats, as is a short story in the Dreamspell Nightmares anthology.

Starks was born in Boston, Massachusetts, grew up in northern Oklahoma, and now lives in Texas. She earned a chemical engineering bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from New Orleans' Tulane University. This was followed by a finance MBA from the University of Chicago in five quarters rather than the usual six, though she did make time to play for a celebrated women's intramural basketball team, the Efficient Mockettes.

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Judy Nordseth
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Working more than a decade for well-known oil companies in engineering, marketing, and finance from refineries to corporate offices prepared her to write 13 Days: the Pythagoras Conspiracy (Brown Books Publishing Group, 2006) about a plot to sabotage oil refineries and the woman who must discover and stop it. Starks has also been published in Amazon Shorts, Mystery Readers Journal, The Dallas Morning News, The Houston Chronicle, The San Antonio Express-News, Sleuth Sayer (MWA-SW newsletter), Natural Gas, and Oil and Gas Journal. She has run six half-marathons, is co-holder of a US patent, and consults on energy economics for a limited number of clients.

Starks is past president of the board of directors for her local YWCA. She currently serves as treasurer on the volunteer board of her city's public library.

Starks donates a percentage of 13 Days' revenues to a New Orleans rebuilding fund.


	Chevron Richmond Refinery, Long Wharf photo courtesy of: eia.doe.gov

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