About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Loupas lives near the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth. She is presently a novelist, freelance writer and amateur historian. In other times and other places she has been a radio network vice president, a reference librarian, a business-to-business magazine editor, and a tutor in English literature.
One of her passions is the art and poetry of the Pre-Raphaelites. This led her to the Rossettis and the Brownings, and the project nearest and dearest to her heart—her novel The Second Duchess, based on Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess.”
She hates housework, cold weather, and wearing shoes. She loves animals, gardens, and popcorn. Not surprisingly she lives in a state of happy barefoot chaos with her delightful and faintly bemused husband (the Broadcasting Legend™), her herb garden, her popcorn popper, and two beagles.
Elizabeth is represented by Diana Fox of Fox Literary in New York. The Second Duchess is scheduled for February 2011 from Penguin/NAL, and Elizabeth is working on a new novel featuring Mary Queen of Scots, some secret quatrains of Nostradamus, and a girl who can read the future in flowers.