Lisa Rojany


Lisa Rojany is an American author, editor and publishing executive.
She has written dozens of children's books and was the lead author of Writing Children's Book for Dummies – an Amazon Bestseller about the process of writing, promoting, and publishing a book. She also co-wrote the New York Times Bestselling adult nonfiction Fund Your Future .
Her 2009 YA nonfiction, Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz, co-authored with Eva Kor, was named an American Booksellers Association ABC Best Books for Young Readers in 2017, and has received notoriety from Candles Holocaust Museum, the Jewish Book Council, as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, among others.
Her books have been translated to Spanish, German, Polish, Romanian, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, and other languages.

Biography

Lisa Rojany was born on February 14, 1964, in Los Angeles, California, to parents Avi Rojany and Mary Marks. Her father, Avi Rojany, is a stockbroker and real estate magnate who immigrated to the U.S. from Israel in 1962. Her mother, Mary Marks, is an author and reviewer of cozy mysteries for Kensington Publishing Corp.
She has eight half-siblings, all younger – four half-brothers and four half-sisters, and 19 nieces and nephews.
Growing up in Los Angeles, Rojany attended Birmingham High School, and graduated in 1982. After high school, she attended UCLA, where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with Honors in 1986, receiving her B.A. in Communication Studies.
In 1986–1987, she studied language abroad in Paris, France, at both La Sorbonne Université and Alliance Française.
She then lived in Providence, Rhode Island, while pursuing her master's degree from Brown University, graduating with a master's in English and American literature in 1991.
Rojany has worked for Price Stern Sloan/Penguin RandomHouse, Golden Books, Americhip Books, Intervisual Books, Gateway Learning Corp, and MyPotential.com.
She married and divorced Kristian Buccieri, and has three children: Olivia, Chloe, and Genevieve.
She currently lives in Los Angeles. She is the founder and owner of Editorial Services of Los Angeles, the publisher and editor in chief of New York Journal of Books as well as a reviewer, and is listed as a writer for Tanglewood Books. She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who, and the Authors Guild.

Published works

Adult nonfiction

Writing Children's Books for Dummies – ; Fund Your Future –

Young adult nonfiction

Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz – ;

Young adult fiction

  • Emergency: in the Emergency Room – ;
  • Emergency: Truth or Consequences – ASIN B01F7YB5E8
  • Emergency Book 4: Staying Alive – ;
  • Making the Grade – ;
  • Code Blue: In the Emergency Room –,

Juvenile fiction/Children's books

  • You Can Be a Doctor! – ASIN B073C2NMXH
  • Sammy's Suitcase –,
  • Let's Make Noise Around the House – ;
  • Let's Make Noise at the Airport – ;
  • Let's Make Noise at the Ballpark –,
  • Make Your Own Valentine Cards: 16 Cards and 50 Stickers –,
  • I Love You Because Love, Barbie – ASIN B012YT74BM
  • Leave It to Beaver –,
  • Big Trucks and Bigger Diggers,
  • Giant Giants & Magic Mermaid – ;
  • Tell Me About When I Was a Baby – ;
  • Casper: The Novelization –,
  • Dena Dinosaur –,
  • Gold Diggers: the Secret of Bear Mountain –,
  • Hippo, Elephant, Whale, Giraffe – ;
  • Kangaroo and Company – ;
  • Melvin Martian –,
  • Morty Monster –,
  • The Magic Feather: A Jamaican Legend –,
  • Wanda Witch – ;
  • Birthday –,
  • Cats: Those Wonderful Creatures –,
  • Friendship: What You Mean to Me –,
  • Make Your Own Valentines –,
  • Spring Gardens –,
  • Token of Love –,
  • Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Down the Rabbit Hole – ;
  • Wedding Sentiments –,
  • Jake and Jenny on the Town: A Finger Puppet Lift-the-flap Book –,
  • King Arthur's Camelot: A Pop-Up Castle and Four Storybooks – ;
  • The Story of Hanukkah: A Lift-The-Flap Rebus Book – ;
  • Where's That Pig? – ;
  • Exploring the Human Body – ;
  • The Hands-On Book of Big Machines – ASIN B01A6576Z0