Lya Sorano
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Adopt My Fabrics! (Please)
- Atlanta Biz Woman
- Business and Career Tips
- Catherine de thé Cups
- Ellie's garden in the Netherlands
- Expat Forever
- Gardening By the Book
- Georgia Home Garden
- Georgia Master Gardener: Events
- Gourmet Gardener's Kitchen
- Jim Long's Garden
- My pilgrimage to Santiago
- Northeast Georgia Master Gardeners
- Renee's Garden Seeds: Renee's Blog
- The Accidental Gardener
- The Art of Resilience In the Global Era
- The Meditative Gardener
- The State Botanical Garden of Georgia
- Traveling the Southeast
- Write Your Life
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Consulting |
| Occupation | Writer, Gardener, Marketing & PR Consultant |
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Introduction | A love of reading and a terrific high school teacher made me a writer, a book (Georgia Gardener's Guide, by Erica Glasener and Walter Reeves) made me a gardener, and a casual lunch with my friend Pat Bowen is the reason why I became a Certified Georgia Master Gardener. Since 2005, I have written monthly gardening columns for the Barrow-Jackson Journal, the Georgia Asian Times and The Nooze. I also write for a number of e-zines and for private clients - anything from LinkedIn profiles to web content to case studies, personal bios, corporate profiles, tag lines and more. A niche specialty is working with international scientists whose articles require the scrutiny of an extra set of eyes before they are published in professional journals. My company, The Oliver/Sorano Group, Inc., handles marketing and PR projects for a variety of clients, and provides a home to Atlanta Women in Business. |
| Interests | Reading, writing, gardening, helping clients with marketing and PR projects, my cats Praline and BabyBaby, bluejeans and white cotton shirts, Dove chocolates, strong espresso, and a leisurely summertime Campari and soda with good friends. |
| Favorite Movies | Casablanca, Doctor Zhivago, It's a Mad Mad Mad World. |
| Favorite Music | Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Louis Armstrong, all the French chansonnaires of the mid 1900s, especially Edith Piaf. |
| Favorite Books | Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe, Don't Stop the Carnival, by Herman Wouk, The World's Banker, by Sebastian Mallby, Under The Tuscan Sun, by Frances Mayes, Indian Summer by Alex Von Tunzelmann, Leap!, by Sara Davison, Living InSync, by Susan Pilgrim, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini - and lots more! My newest "fave": Waking Up In Eden, by Lucinda Fleeson |