About

About Me:

There are few things more important in my writing career than telling a great story, a fun story, and one that inspires us to be a little better than we are. I hope in reading my books you gained comfort, laughs, or an escape from your every day life. Thank you for spending time with me and my characters as we try to fill pages with laughter, love, and a little adventure – even if it’s a bit over the top!

Official Bio:

The book that changed my life!

After Nancy Drew was encased in a plaster statue to starve, suffocate, and die, Tricia Cerrone decided pursuing writing would be safer than sleuthing.

She is currently writing THE BLACK SWAN FILES—a near future, ya sci-fi, adventure series about a teenage girl with superpowers who struggles to find her family and the home where she belongs. The series has been applauded for its emotion, humor, diverse characters in STEM, and making you want to turn the page. The TV Pilot script for The Black Swan Files has also been receiving accolades on the screenwriting circuit. Tricia’s first feature film screenplay, THE SKELETON WATCH won The Writers Lab competition, and was a semifinalist in the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowship among other awards. Her latest feature, a comedy, DIVERSITY JOURNEY, placed top 10% in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and is soon to be on the contest circuit. Tricia Cerrone is a former Walt Disney Imagineering executive where her focus was on innovation, storytelling with new technologies, and talent development. She is a strong advocate and mentor for young people who seek to find their place in the world.

Ms. Cerrone is also Lead Writer with former colleague, Edward J. van Luinen, on  COLLABORATE TO COMPETE, a leadership book based on their work together plus their experiences from their combined 40+ years of work at Fortune 500 companies, extensive research, and interviews with global leaders—including CEO Jenny Ming, President of Niven Enterprises and former Disney leader Mary Niven, BLNG AI Founder Dumëne Comploi and others. In this book Cerrone and van Luinen teach:

  • the five behaviors to create a culture of collaboration and why they work
  • how to use noble purpose to unite and motivate teams and individuals through even the toughest times
  • the immediate steps to implement collaboration on your team – today!
  • how to recognize and overcome the barriers to collaborations in yourself and others
  • how to support collaboration long-term and grow it in your organization

Ms. Cerrone also writes Historical Romance (for anyone who loves epic love) under the pen name, Trish Albright. Siren’s Song and Siren’s Secret in the Keepers of the Legacy series have collected a number of awards. The Time Keeper, is a Christmas novella that captures all the action, romance, and snappy dialogue she is known for in her other historicals.

No matter what she writes, hope, humor, and heart are the hallmarks of Tricia’s work which celebrate friendship, family, achieving your goals, and making the world better for all.

 

Awards Received as Tricia Cerrone

The Black Swan Files book series: Glisten, The Black Swan Files 002 won the 2017 Wisconsin RWA Write Touch Readers’ Award for Best Young Adult Book, the 2017 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Young Adult Fiction, and won a SILVER MEDAL in the 2017 eLit Awards for Best Young Adult Book. Glisten was also a finalist in the 2017 YARWA Athena Awards, the 2017 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, the 2017 Maggie Award for Excellence, and the 2017 Book Buyer’s Best Award for Young Adult. Glimmer, The Black Swan Files 001 won a 2016 GOLD MEDAL in the Independent Publishers Awards (an IPPY), for Best Young Adult E-Book and an Honorable Mention from the 2015 North Street Book Prize in Genre Fiction.

The Skeleton Watch screenplay: TOP 1% of Coverfly FEATURES for past four years out of approximately 142,018 projects. Richmond International Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2024 Finalist; Outstanding Screenplays, 2023 Finalist; The Writers Lab, 2019 Winner; Academy Nicholl Fellowship, 2020 Semi-Finalist; Outstanding Screenplays 2022 Finalist; Big Apple Feature Screenplay, 2020 Semi-Finalist; Big Break Screenwriting Contest, 2019 Quarter-Finalist; PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, 2019 Quarter-Finalist; Shore Scripts Screenwriting Contest, 2018 Semi-Finalist.

Diversity Journey screenplay: Academy Nicholl Fellowship, top 10%.

The Black Swan Files TV Pilot screenplay:  TOP 7% of all Coverfly TV PILOTS in 2024. Semifinalist, Richmond Internationals Film Festival Screenplay Competition; 2024 Quarterfinalist WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab; 2023 Quarterfinalist Filmmatic Sci-Fi/Fantasy Awards; Vail Film Festival Screenplay Awards, Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.

Other Projects: Ms. Cerrone’s first manuscript, A Virgin in L.A., won the Colorado Romance Writers Molly Award and was a finalist in Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart® Award for Unpublished Authors.

Awards Received as Trish Albright

RWA Golden Heart Finalist for The Captain’s Ring (Later became Siren’s Song); Winner of the 2009 Wisconsin Write Touch Readers’ Award; Winner of 2009 THE BEACON AWARD presented by First Coast Romance Writers; 2nd Place in 2010 THE BEACON AWARD; 2010 GOLDEN QUILL Finalist; Finalist for the 2010 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE presented by Colorado Romance Writers.

Affiliations:

Tricia is a member of Novelists, Inc., International Thriller Writers, International Screenwriters’ Association, Women in Film and Television, and The Alliance of Independent Authors.