Lidia LoPinto

Lidia LoPinto lives in Long Island and has been writing professionally since 1980. She holds advanced degrees in chemical engineering and computer science. She consults for major companies as a business analyst and writes about the environment.

In 2000 she teamed up with her husband Charles LoPinto to create a series of environmental crime novels that both entertained, and heightened awareness about the vulnerability of our country to terrorism. Just as the first novel was published, we suffered the 911 incident. The couple wrote one more book the following year dealing with chemical terrorism and is currently working on a third.

Lidia's other publishing projects in the technical areas include a book on indusrial safety and one on maintenance. Her day job involves supplying companies and municpalities with easy to use sofftware.

She also recently republished Winnie LoPinto about women pilots. Winnie LoPinto was a WASP trainee in 1945 and had asked Lidia to publish this book after her death. It has been on demand for several years and lately been repackaged and optimized for Kindle, where we got 800 downloads the first two days it went free. Certainly it has moved up to number one under "women pilots