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About the author:
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Virginia lives in Illinois. She was born into a family of ten siblings, falling in at number five, with her twin following at number six.
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She admits to having been a closet writer in the past. With writing always on her mind, and she purges those relentless thoughts by keeping a pad of paper and pen nearby (especially in the middle of the night).
Her passion for writing began as a young girl, when she watched an old black-and-white movie featuring a man in his attic hunched over his manual typewriter, feverishly writing a novel. The romance began!
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A retired cost accountant, Virginia is content spending her afternoons writing, researching, and editing with her writing partners and disrupters, two Maine Coon cats. (Jax and Macky's picture's are on the left).
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Virginia earned her first-degree black belt in karate and is a practitioner of transcendental meditation techniques, weaving those experiences into her stories. Hiking tops her list of favorite pastimes, providing the exercise and mental respite to plot the next great sentence and scene.
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She is a member of CWA & Yorkville creative group.​
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Visit:
virginiamledesma.com
gigiledz@gmail.com or​
Facebook: Virginia Ledesma
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You will also find me registered at:
Illinois Authors Directory:
​https://www.illinoisauthors.org/php/getSpecificAuthor.php?uid=10472
The Trouble with Chance Reviews
From M. H.
The Trouble with Chance is a fast-paced thriller with a distinctive cast of characters and a "just enough" romance. Nora Chance, a solitary yet beautiful metalworker, sets out for her nightly jog but is waylaid by events from a past she knows nothing about. From the first pages, this book grabs your attention and has you rooting for Nora, even as it keeps you guessing who is trying to protect her and who's out to harm her. The layers of intrigue steadily build until the last pages when all is revealed in a satisfyingly complex and complete denouement.
From a Mentor and Friend
The Trouble with Chance is a rollicking thriller that gives the reader a front-row seat to the heist of a 400-year-old painting from a London museum and the fallout that follows. See if you can stay a step ahead of Nora Chance and the shadowy Michael O'Neil as they attempt to solve the mystery of the theft and the mysteries of the human heart. Full of thrilling twists and turns, adventure and romance, and betrayal and courage, The Trouble with Chance will keep you thinking well past the end. Virginia Ledesma has written a sharp, keenly observed novel.
News and Events
The Trouble with Chance available at local libraries in IL (Sheridan, Somonauk, Sandwich, Plano, Oswego/Montgomery, Ottawa, St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove).
The Trouble with Chance available for purchase at PRAIRE FOX BOOKS in Ottawa, IL
The Trouble with Chance available for purchase at TOWNHOUSE BOOKS in ST. CHARLES, IL
The Trouble with Chance available for purchase at THE BOOK MARKET & TRADING CTR, Crest Hill, IL
***2024 BOOK SALE AND SIGNING EVENTS***
June 15, 2024 - Last minute event! Redbud Creek Farm 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Location: 2930N. 4351st Rd., Sheridan IL
July 27, 2024 - Plano Library, author book fair, 10:00 to 10:30. Location: 15 W. North St., Plano, IL
August 24, 31 & September 14th (tentative date) - "Local" Author book sale and signing at my home, 10:00 to 3:00. Email gigiledz@gmail.com for address in Millbrook, Illinois.
September 7 & 8, 2024 - See me at Chicago's Printers Row Lit Fest under the IWPA tent (Illinois Womans's Press. See Printers Row Lit Fest website for more detail.
September 21, 2024 - Last minute event! Redbud Creek Farm - Fall Festival, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Location: 2930N. 4351st Rd., Sheridan IL
September 25, 2024 - Sandwich Library book reading and signing, 6:00 to 7:30. Location: 925 S. Main St., Sandwich IL
November 9th, 2024 - Coliseum Museum Book Fair, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Location: 124 N. 4th St., Oregon, IL.
November 16th, 2024 - Somonauk Library author book fair, time 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Location: 770 E. LaSalle St., Somonauk, IL.
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