DETROIT — Allison Leotta, a Detroit native living in the D.C. area, likes to send her parents in Michigan a draft of her new novels — minus the chapters with the steamy sex scenes.
“I take out those chapters,” says Leotta, a Michigan State University graduate.
But her mother, Diane Harnisch, of West Bloomfield, Mich., says at least with the last transcript, her daughter may have forgotten to excise those chapters. Not that it really matters. She says she reads the published books as well.
“I want to know exactly what she’s writing,” says Harnisch. “Of course as a mom, it makes me a little uncomfortable at times. and wondering how in heavens name does she know that stuff.”
Her parents and grandmother are perhaps her biggest fans, but certainly not the only ones.
Leotta, 40, who is married and the mother of two young boys, is on fire in the literary world.
Described in the Providence Journal as a female John Grisham, the former D.C. sex crimes prosecutor will release her third novel “Speak of the Devil”, next Tuesday.
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