Lea Schizas

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Lea Schizas is an award-winning author/editor, a short story competition winner, living in Montreal with her husband Jimmy and five children. She describes herself as “finally woke up after a 23-year self-induced coma taking care of the family, and rediscovered my passion for writing.”

She is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of two Writer’s Digest 101 Top Writing Sites of 2005 & 2006 and recipients of the Preditors and Editors Most Useful Writing Sites Award: Apollo’s Lyre, an online writer’s Zine and the online writing critique community The MuseItUp Club.
founder of The Muse Online Writers Conference
founder of The Muse Marquee
founder of The Muse Book Reviews
co-founder of Coffee Cramp eZine
reviewer for the award-winning site AllBooksReviews.com
copy editor for Double Dragon Publishing

She is the author of the Young Adult fantasy/adventure novel The Rock of Realm and co-author and editor of the nonfiction writing reference book The Muse On Writing.

Passing wisdom from Lea: "SUBMIT! SUBMIT! SUBMIT! Those dustballs don't do anything for your manuscript so take them out of the drawers and SUBMIT! SUBMIT! SUBMIT! Unless you're a wannnabe writer, then leave them right where they are." You can read more of Lea’s bio and accomplishments at Lea Schizas’ editor’s page.