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Ariel Ranieri writes contemporary romantic comedies. She believes FMCs can and should be as bossy, controlling and/or broody as the men they fall for.
She has completed three manuscripts (and started 50+ others) and is currently revising CONTROL FREAK, a new take on Beauty and the Beast where both characters get to be Beauty and both characters get to be the Beast.
When she’s not giggling over her own rom-coms, she’s busting out bizarre, dark miscellany and science fiction, an example of which has been published in the online magazine Rejection Letters. She also writes the blog memo:random, where she opines at irregular intervals about anything and nothing in particular.
In her past life Ariel has written sonnets, slam poetry, spoken-word poetry, screenplays and science fiction (all of it bad). She attended the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and won second place for a science fiction story at the UW-Whitewater High School Creative Writing Festival (except that one, that was pretty good).
She is a Chicagolander by birth and training. In her free time, she enjoys biking, rollerblading, gin martinis and anything involving water.