Novelist Loraine Despres is a recovering screenwriter, best remembered for writing that icon of pop culture, the "Who Shot J.R.?" episode of DALLAS. Her first novel, The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc, published by William Morrow in 2001, became a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, as well as a national best seller, and engendered its companion, The Southern Belle's Handbook. This summer William Morrow published the prequel, The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell. Loraine lives with her husband, writer-producer Carleton Eastlake, in Beverly Hills, where she continues to enjoy bad behavior. Everything else you want to know is on her website.

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