Alesia Holliday
Alesia Holliday is an American author who writes under own name as well as the pseudonyms Alyssa Day and Jax Abbott. She won a RITA Award, given by the Romance Writers of America for excellence in romantic fiction. Early life and education. Alesia Marie Holliday was raised in Barnesville, Ohio, and graduated from Barnesville High School in 1981. She earned degrees from Ohio State University and Capital University Law School (J.D., 1995). Writing career. While working as a trial lawyer, she began writing. In 2003, Holliday published a memoir, "eMail to the Front", of her correspondence with her  husband while he was deployed with the United States Navy. Her first novel, a chick lit book called "American Idle", was published in 2004. The book launched Dorchester's making It imprint. "Publishers Weekly" described it as "zany" and "humorous." Holliday says that her fiction writing style influenced her legal briefs, with one judge telling her "‘I love when you come before me, because your briefs are always so entertaining'". To the surprise of her law colleagues, who considered her writing a hobby, Holliday soon quit law to write full-time. Holliday writes in multiple genres using multiple pseudonyms. Under  her own name, she has written romantic comedies and mysteries. As Jax Abbott, she writes YA novels. As Alyssa Day, she writes paranormal romance. Bibliography. Writing as Lucy Connors. Author is no longer using the pseudonym Lucy Connors Writing as Alyssa Day. Warriors of Poseidon series. Related to Poseidon's Warriors Tiger's Eye Mysteries series. Author estimates this series will include 12 books Personal. Holliday's first two marriages were brief, ending in divorce. She was married to Michael D. Melching from June 16, 1985 to February 6, 1987. Holliday married Patrick R. Tourne on April 20, 1990 and  they were divorced on December 8, 1994. Holliday married her third husband Judson E. "Judd" McLevey II, a naval flight officer, on March 23, 1996. They have two children.