Lynn and Carol at Barnes and Noble , 2022 (L to R)
Lynn and Frank X Walker at the Kentucky Book Festival 2022
Lynn Slaughter, Author
The Big Switch: Varney and Cedric (forthcoming, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie), Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize Finalist
Missing Mom (Fire and Ice/Melange Books), Claymore Finalist
Missed Cue (Melange Books, 2023). NYC Big Book Award in mystery category, Silver Falchion Top Pick
Deadly Setup (Fire and Ice/Melange Books, 2022), NYC Big Book Award Winner, Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Silver Medalist, Maincrest Media Book Award, Book Excellence Award, M&M Chanticleer International Awards Finalist, Imadjinn Award Finalist, Silver Falchion Finalist
Leisha's Song (Fire and Ice/Melange Books, 2021): Agatha Nominee, Silver Falchion Award, Moonbeam Bronze Medalist, Imadjinn Award for Best YA Novel
While I Danced (Write Words), EPIC Finalist
It Should Have Been You (Page Street), Silver Falchion Finalist
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When I retired from dance, I felt pretty lost. I’d always been an avid fiction reader, and long after I became an adult, I continued to love reading young adult novels. Despite all my writing experience having been in nonfiction, I decided to try writing a young adult novel and discovered a new passion. I returned to school and earned my MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and have continued to write—and write—and write.
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