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THE QUEENPIN CHRONICLES, E-BOOK, PRINT & AUDIO:
Book 1: Florida Girls
When wartime showgirls meet Tampa mobsters, the war bonds tour becomes a battle for survival—and the women are done playing nice.
Book 2: Vegas Girls
What happens in Vegas doesn't stay there when former showgirls infiltrate the mob to expose a government conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power.
Havana Girls
A dual timeline intrigue spanning pre-Revolutionary Cuba and 1978 Miami to reveal buried Cold War secrets, and family betrayals and uncover the underground network of women who've been fighting back all along.
my MEMOIRS: BUY HERE
I HOPED MOVING TO QATAR WOULD CHANGE EVERYTHING. UNTIL IT DID.
LL Kirchner was excited for change. The thirty-eight-year-old American journalist to Qatar for work, hoping to improve education for Muslim women while building a nest egg to start a family. But after months of struggling with Middle Eastern patriarchy, communication problems, and constant heat exhaustion, the intrepid ex-pat was stunned to discover she’d entered early menopause.
Devastated when the diagnosis meant she could never have children, Kirchner and her spouse sought fertility treatments to fight nature’s cruel blow. But after a vacation to Turkey convinced them to return to the U.S., she suffered another emotional gut-punch when he decided he wanted a divorce.
Abandoned in the Persian Gulf, would this woman reeling from loss find a way to recover?
In this darkly comedic memoir, LL Kirchner recounts her extraordinary transformation in a daunting crucible. And as she journeys from hope to betrayal to peace, you’ll laugh and cry at her remarkable redirection from seeking approval to loving herself.
American Lady Creature is a fascinating account of one woman’s experience of hard-earned redemption. If you like moving narratives, honest confessions, and emerging triumphant from darkness, then you’ll adore LL Kirchner’s unforgettable reinvention.
Never give up, especially on yourself
Before my marriage ended over the telephone — from another country — I thought I knew from wellness. My parents owned a gym, and I’d already spent more than a decade in substance abuse recovery.
After that soul-crushing phone call, I feared a return to my substance addiction if I didn’t make a radical departure from life as I knew it. It wouldn’t have been the first time heartbreak sent me down that shame spiral. I turned toward the only answer I knew, one her sobriety mentor had shared — “the answer is always more spirituality.”
But when is more enough?
Desperate for answers, I tested out every spiritual journey imaginable—yoga, silent meditation retreats, gurus — but I kept returning to toxic relationships.
Driven to a sex cult where I was finally forced to confront unresolved family dynamics, I discovered I’d been asking the wrong question. Ultimately, I recognized my mother’s lasting gift—hope.
In a memoir that’s both rapturous and page-turning, Kirchner captures the terrors and joys of searching for radical honesty — and a second date.
who am I to write about rebellious women?
I’ve been a journalist, a story coach, an award-winning screenwriter, and even an on-air host for the Home Shopping Network.
My life and work as an expat in Asia became the basis of two memoirs. And that was after I was the religion editor for an LGBTQIA+ paper, the dating columnist for an alt newsweekly, and the bridal editor for a society rag… all at the same time. My writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, and The Rumpus among numerous other outlets. I live in Florida with my favorite husband and our best boy, Hartley.🐾