D.E. Lamont

D.E. Lamont's interest in books and writing developed as a preteen when her favorite aunt, Libby, took her to the big Hollywood book shop of the era, Pickwick Books, and let her pick out as many books as she wished to get. Delighted, she became an avid reader and visitor to the library from that time forward. Her reading interests varied among the classics, adventure, western, fantasy, thrillers, science fiction, historical fiction, biography and autobiography.

Growing up in the mushrooming residential developments of the San Fernando Valley of Southern California, she and her brothers explored the wild chaparral-covered hills and canyons surrounding the Valley, where they found signs of former Native American inhabitants. These discoveries excited her interest in earlier times and left her with the haunting impression that many stories about these mysterious, missing people waited to be told.

Only many years later did she learn who those Indians were - the Tongva, who had been driven to near extinction over the last four and a half centuries by the Spanish, Mexican, and then American conquerors. D.E. wished to feature these little-known people and let more people know about them in her novella, The Way of the Eagle.

D.E. Lamont's latest story is a new e-novelette, "LOST WITHOUT LOVE - A Hollywood Tale of the Future." Her e-book, "TWO SHORT FANTASIES, A Starry Night's Dream and The Prisoner" consists of two short-short stories, and she is presently working on the sequel to "THE WAY OF THE EAGLE" and another full-length novel.

In addition to her fiction, she writes nonfiction under the name Daveda Lamont. In May 2012 "BECOMING A TRUE CHAMPION: Achieving Athletic Excellence from the Inside Out," by former 3-time All American gymnast Kirk Mango and heself, was released by Rowman & Littlefield. Ms. Lamont also worked as an independent nonfiction editor from the early 1980s onward.

D.E. Lamont lives with her husband and their beloved birds and plants in an apartment overlooking the Hudson River. Shortly before publishing her first novella, a rare experience gave her the name for her self-publishing company: after a big storm, the Hudson, mile-wide where she lives, transformed into a mystical rolling river of clouds that moved downstream before her eyes. This magical phenomenon inspired the name Cloud River Press for her imprint.