Writing

Events

Publications

Podcast Interviews

Speaker/ Panelist

Book Trailers

Lisa Towles is an award-winning, Amazon bestselling crime novelist and a passionate speaker on the topics of fiction writing, creativity, and self care. Lisa has 13 crime novels in print with a new thriller, Switch, forthcoming in September of 2025. Switch is Book 3 in her acclaimed E&A Investigations Series. The first two books (Hot House and Salt Island) were both #1 Amazon Kindle Bestsellers. Lisa also writes standalone thrillers, such as Specimen, Codex, Terror Bay, The Ridders, and Ninety-Five, among others. Lisa is an active member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and International Thriller Writers. She has an MBA in IT Management and works full-time in the tech industry.

Read more about Lisa’s books on the Indies United Publishing House website.

Upcoming 2025 book promotion events in the San Francisco Bay Area:

• Sunday, May 18, 2025 - Book Passage Sisters in Crime Spring Author Showcase. Join us at 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA at 1:00 pm. Lisa will be reading from her latest release, Specimen, and signing books along with 10 other authors.

• Saturday, June 7, 2025 - Local Author Book Fair at Sports Basement Presidio in San Francisco from 1-4pm.

Forthcoming: Switch (Indies United) - September 2025

Published Titles

• Specimen (Indies United, 2024)

• Codex (Indies United, 2024)

• Terror Bay (Indies United, 2023)

• Salt Island (Indies United, 2023)

• Choke (Reprint) (Indies United, 2023)

• The Ridders (Indies United, 2022)

• Hot House (Indies United, 2022)

• Ninety-Five (Indies United, 2021)

• The Unseen (9mm Press, 2019)

• Choke (Rebel ePublishers, 2017)

Published under the name Lisa Polisar

• Escape: Dark Mystery Tales (collection) (Nukeworks, 2010)

• The Ghost of Mary Prairie (University of New Mexico Press, 2007)

• Blackwater Tango (Hilliard and Harris, 2002)

• Knee Deep (Port Town Publishing, 2001)

• Podcast Interview: Endpoint Management Today, The BigFix Podcast with Lisa Towles

• Personal Mastery Podcast with Host Agi Keramidas - Storytelling and Strategic Self Care - January 13, 2022 - Click here to listen: https://bit.ly/3tiB2iY

• The Pen Podcast with Host Matthew Harms

• Emerging Writers Series Podcast hosted by Kasey Rogers, April 2022

• The Authors Showcase podcast with Host, Linda Thompson - Interview July 14, 2022

• Agi Keramidas - 12/8/22 - link forthcoming

• Spies, Lies, and Private Eyes - Host Terrence McCauley - 12/15/22 Podcast Interview

• Deirdre Pippin - Interview forthcoming 2/2/23

• Spies, Lies, and Private Eyes - Host Terrance McCauley - July 2023 Podcast Interview

• Book Nook - Host Ron Kinscherf - 6/28/23 Podcast Interview

• International Thriller Writers - Thriller Roundtable Panel, “How we use symbolism in crafting thrillers” - September 4, 2017 (Online)

• International Thriller Writers - Thriller Roundtable Panel, “Writing comedy into thrillers” - September 25, 2017 (Online)

• Mystery Writers of America - “NorCal Noir” - February 19, 2020 - Oakland Public Library

• Bouchercon2020 - “Keeping Secrets: The Past is Never Gone” - October 17, 2020 (Live Virtual)

• Mystery Writers of America NorCal Chapter - "Book Trailers - Making Them With Lumen5” - February 27, 2021 (FaceBook Live Event)

• Radio Interview, Marcia Macomber The Morning Show Sonoma KSVY 91.3 FM - June 28, 2021

• Radio Interview, Marcia Macomber The Morning Show Sonoma KSVY 91.3 - August 23, 2021 - Interview starts at 23:10

• Sisters in Crime Conference Presenter - October 16, 2021, “Make a Book Trailer Using Lumen5 in 1 Hour”

• Mystery Writers of America NorCal Chapter - “My Book Was Published - Now What?” Post-Release Publicity by Lisa Towles and Michelle Chouinard - January 8, 2022 (Facebook Live Event)

• Fireside Chat with Lisa Towles and Faye Snowden (from Sisters in Crime) for American Association of University Women - February 9, 2022 (link coming soon)

• Radio Interview, Marcia Macomber The Morning Show Sonoma KSVY 91.3 - June 6, 2022 - Interview starts at 42:33

• Tech With Heart TV (Amazon Fire, Roku, YouTube) with host Michelle Calloway - January 3, 2022

• Radio Interview, Marcia Macomber The Morning Show Sonoma, KSVY 91.3 FM - May 22, 2023 - Interview starts at 22:35

Videos are typically 1:00 to 1:30 and include book trailers, business/corporate, inspirational, marketing, and event videos. If you’re interested in working with Lisa on a video project, email lisamarietowles@gmail.com to start a conversation.

Book trailers:

• Codex by Lisa Towles

• I Am, Therefore I Think by J.W. Bell

• Choke by author Lisa Towles

• The Unseen by author Lisa Towles

• Ninety-Five by author Lisa Towles

• Hot House by author Lisa Towles

• The Ridders by author Lisa Towles

• Salt Island by Lisa Towles

• Terror Bay by Lisa Towles

• We Know Your Name by author Erik Foge

• One Way Roads by author Erik Foge

• Trigger Point by author Anthony Roth

• Trigger Point (Version 2) by author Anthony Roth

• Flying Lead Change by author Kelly Wendorf

• Shadow of Eden by author Dr. Louis Kirby

• Set Up by author Ana Manwaring

• Legacy of Lies by author Lexa M. Mack

Business/Corporate:

• BigFix Tools Consolidation

• What is Client Advocacy?

Inspirational/Events:

• New You

• Spiritual Retreat with Amanda Slade

• Heart Centered Tech October Summit

Strategic Self Care

Strategic Self Care is for business leaders and visionaries, writers and innovators, movers and shakers. It brings awareness to the parts of ourselves we historically ignore to draw deeper meaning and fulfillment from our work. It’s a set of practices that brings strategy to identifying what you really want, understanding your why, and creating space for positive change.