Amanda Brice is an intellectual
property attorney just outside of the nation's capitol. A
lawyer in Washington? No, there are none of those!
Ever since she was little, Amanda
loved to write, but some of her earliest endeavors were less
than spectacular. Still, "Nancy Flew and the Mystery
of the Lady Ghost" was critically acclaimed by the strictest
of literary critics, her 4th grade teacher. Amanda dreamed
of becoming either a ballerina or an author, but her father
convinced her to "do something practical," so she
eventually went to law school and spent her time writing briefs
and pleadings instead of fiction.
Still, the urge for creativity
nagged at her, until one day, while she was working on an
advanced law specialization degree in intellectual property,
she decided that writing chick lit was much more fun than
her paper on the patentability of indigenous medicinal
methods. So she wrote the first 80 pages of her first novel
instead, and begged her professor for an extension on the
law paper. From that moment on, she was hooked and has been
splitting her time between writing and practicing law ever
since.
In her spare time, Amanda enjoys
dancing, reading, cooking, traveling, and obsessing over whether
Duke will beat Carolina in
basketball. Go Devils!
