About Ida Duque
Ida Duque writes sweary, sweet with heat, romantic comedies with a Miami flair. Actually, if she’s being honest, it’s more like loud, crazy Miami-infused romcom with bad words. Her books feature smart sassy women who love life, family and each other and are hoping to find true love. Also, there’s kissing…lots of kissing!
Ida is a Higher Education professional writing romantic comedy under a pen name, mostly because college students are not impressed by "kissing books." She loves her students and working on campus and there’s nothing else in the world she’d rather do. but she also loves writing stories and entertaining. A pen name seemed like a good compromise.
A native of a beautiful island in the Caribbean, these days Ida lives in South Florida with her husband and two kids, one of whose future plans include becoming “the boss of Miami.” Seriously. Ida’s loving every minute of raising her but will welcome parenting tips on dealing with aspiring dictators. There are currently no playgroups in their area organized for fiercely independent kids also interested in political machinations and autocracy.
Random Facts Ida Duque
1. She lives in South Florida and is fully bilingual.
2. After owning a few dogs during her lifetime and being a dog person (and after much research and conversations with the kids,) during the Summer of 2021. Ida & her family adopted a rescue kitten (who, let's be honest, now owns this family!)
3. She has two "useless" skills: Tetris and parallel parking. She's a level 5* on Nintendo Switch Tetris and has been told by men (who have observed her parking) that she's "really good."
4. She addicted to both coffee and chocolate. She blames her husband for the coffee addiction (LOL)
5. Her top strengths are Maximizer, Input, Connectedness and Learner. If you're familiar with the Gallup Strengths, this should tell you everything you need to know about me (LOL)
6. Ida writes under a pen name. She's an extrovert who loves people. This means she can't be FT author because she would be bored at home. She works with college students, and she loves it! Not to mention, I'm sure the cat appreciates having the house to herself all day.
7. She lives close to a few higher education institutions (she couldn't escape even if she tried!) A simple search of reveals: FIU, UM, MDC, NOVA Southeastern and satellite campuses of Barry U, Keiser U and FNU, to name a few.
8. She lives in Kendall, a community in South Florida, where everybody drives (you don't want to know her thoughts on public transportation OMG.) Curiously enough, Kendall was home to both Janet Reno & O.J. Simpson.
9. She is constantly in awed of how her kids are growing and developing into nice humans. She has no idea what she's doing half the time, and you shouldn't trust her parenting advice, but she will tell you (as she tells her kids and her students daily,) to be nice to people and have fun but, please, don't do anything illegal! (not kidding LOL.)