I hope my legacy will be that people really enjoyed and appreciated my writing and/or work as media producer/director.

I write art reviews, critiques, catalog essays etc. as well as many other types of articles for magazines and newspapers both print and digital from travel to retail to medical, automotive, finance, what have you.

I also ghostwrite books for others, both fiction and non-fiction; and I write my own published fiction.

On the media side of things, I produce, write, and sometimes direct corporate media, documentaries, reality TV, and the occasional indie film.

Regardless of what type of project I’m working on, I try to create compelling projects that engage and involve.

As to how I got into this type of work: I have a degree in communications, film and tv; I worked on marketing projects and documentaries on the east coast and moved here, working in the film industry, before writing novels, ghostwriting, and pursuing journalism. I have always been a passionate art lover and one of the magazines I once wrote for hired me to review art exhibits, which drew me to support and engage with the SoCal art community, an aspect of my current work that I absolutely love.

My company name, for anyone who doesn’t know it, is Liza Boo Productions, named after a little girl cat, but not one of my current feline best friends and co-workers.

My digital art and travel publication is DiversionsLA.com.

I’ve had to pivot many times. I ran my own production company out here for many successful years until new computer software led many companies to start producing and editing “in house,” and I could see that market shifting. I started to write for television and film, working on projects for ABC, HGTV, TLC; optioning screenplays; producing and writing small indie films. After a few major film projects did not go through (one should not mention JLo around me, haha), I found a New York-based lit agent and started writing novels.

Most novelists – except for the blockbusters – have other “day jobs,” and mine has been journalism and ghostwriting of fiction and non-fiction books for others, as well as editing books. Both were additional, if smaller, pivots.

In terms of journalism itself, while I write on a broad number of subjects for many different publications, after starting my own DiversionsLA digital magazine, I write on the visual arts very frequently, which is a change from my original focuses on travel, food, and general lifestyle. I truly love art, and with a long history of visiting art exhibitions and sites (from age two, as art was always my mom’s first love), I deeply enjoy writing about art and for the art community, so I suppose we can call that another pivot, too.

I’ve also made a move into curation, with my first curated show earlier this year, a two-artist dual installation “Leaving Eden,” at Keystone Gallery in Los Angeles, focusing on climate change; two more exhibitions are planned for 2025.

Never be afraid to change!

Being creative in print, much like being creative in visual art, is all about shaping a world, whether it is yours or that of others. Living in that world, exploring it, examining it, reveling in it – that’s the most rewarding aspect, from writing novels to writing reviews of a visual art project that has deeply moved me.