Alesia Holliday

Alesia Marie Holliday is an American author who writes under own name as well as the pseudonyms Alyssa Day and Jax Abbott. She won a RITA Award, given by the Romance Writers of America for excellence in romantic fiction.

Early life and education

Alesia Marie Holliday was raised in Barnesville, Ohio, and graduated from Barnesville High School in 1981. She earned degrees from Ohio State University and Capital University Law School (J.D., 1995).

Writing career

While working as a trial lawyer, she began writing. In 2003, Holliday published a memoir, eMail to the Front, of her correspondence with her husband while he was deployed with the United States Navy.

Her first novel, a chick lit book called American Idle, was published in 2004. The book launched Dorchester's making It imprint. Publishers Weekly described it as "zany" and "humorous." Holliday says that her fiction writing style influenced her legal briefs, with one judge telling her "‘I love when you come before me, because your briefs are always so entertaining'".

Writing as Jax Abbott

Teen novels

Super Hero Prom Super Hero Sweet 16 Wild Hearts in Atlantis May 2007 Maggie Shayne Marjorie M. Liu

Meljean Brook Shifter Shifter's Lady Mar 2008 Angela Knight Lora Leigh

Virginia Kantra The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance The Princess and the Peas Apr 2009 Trisha Telep

Ilona Andrews

Kelley Armstrong

Anya Bast

Meljean Brook

et al. Enthralled The Curse of the Black Swan Jul 2013 Lora Leigh Meljean Brook

Lucy Monroe I Never Thought I'd See You Again Persephone's Granddaughter Jan 2013 Lou Aronica Allison Brennan

Mary Hart Perry

C.B. Pratt Dark and Deadly Alejandro's Sorceress Apr 2014 Jennifer Ashley Felicity Heaton

Erin Kellison

Laurie London

Erin Quinn Random:

A Short Story Collection The Princess and the Peas Persephone's Granddaughter

Suzi Steletto: Recovering Demon Slayer

Suzi Steletto and the Giblet of Fire

Last Dance July 2014 Spring Fling American Idol May 2015 Lori Handeland Stephanie Julian

Aliyah Burke

Eileen Rendahl Red Sole Clues Traveler's Eye Mar 2016 Liliana Hart Adrienne Giordano

Lori Ryan

Marquita Valentine later renamed Travelling Eye Taming The Vampire Anthology William's Witch Oct 2016 Mandy M. Roth Michelle M. Pillow

Kristen Painter

Yasmine Galenorn

Colleen Gleason

Jennifer Ashley Second Chances:

A Romance Writers of America Collection Jake's Djinn Sep 2017 J. Kenner Tina Ferraro

Christina Lauren

Brandi Willis Schreiber

et al. Tiger's Eye Mysteries Volume 1 Travelling Eye

Dead Eye

Private Eye May 2018 was Traveler's Eye February and March in Atlantis February in Atlantis March in Atlantis Oct 2018 My Paranormal Valentine January in Atlantis Jan 2019 Lisa Kessler

Renee George

Abigail Owen

Debra Dunbar

Robyn Peterman

Michelle M. Pillow Christmas After Dark Christmas in Atlantis Nov 2019 Juliette Cross

Abigail Owen

Lisa Kessler

Nina Croft

Sheryl Nantus Personal

Holliday's first two marriages were brief, ending in divorce. She was married to Michael D. Melching from June 16, 1985 to February 6, 1987. Holliday married Patrick R. Tourne on April 20, 1990 and they were divorced on December 8, 1994.

Holliday married her third husband Judson E. "Judd" McLevey II, a naval flight officer, on March 23, 1996. They have two children.

Awards and reception

2006 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award, Romance Novella – The Naked Truth about Guys in The Naked Truth