Susan McBride: Bio/Media

Susan McBride is the author of Little Black Dress (William Morrow Paperbacks, 09/11), which spent five weeks on the St. Louis bestsellers list and was a Target Recommended Read, a Literary Guild bestseller, and Doubleday Book Club bestseller. She also wrote The Cougar Club (02/10), selected by Target Stores as a Bookmarked Breakout Title and named a Midwest Connections Pick by the Midwest Booksellers Association. Cougar was hailed by MORE Magazine as one of their "Books We're Buzzing About." Foreign editions of The Cougar Club have been published in Croatia and France with a Turkish edition in the works. Currently, Susan is conjuring up The Truth About Love and Lightning, another women's fiction book for HarperCollins/Morrow due out in early 2013, and she has a young adult thriller, Dead Address, in the pipeline at Random House/Delacorte.

Additionally, Susan has written the award-winning Debutante Dropout Mysteries (HarperCollins/Avon), including Blue Blood, The Good Girl's Guide To Murder, The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club, Night Of The Living Deb, and Too Pretty To Die. She has authored several YA series books for Random House about debutantes in Houston, the debut in 2008 appropriately titled The Debs and followed by Love, Lies, And Texas Dips in 2009. Gloves Off, the third book, has not yet been released.

On the personal front, Susan calls herself an "accidental Cougar" after meeting a man nine years younger in 2005 when she was a St. Louis Magazine Top Single. They were married in February 2008 and live happily ever after in a suburb of St. Louis. Susan is a five-year breast cancer survivor and often speaks to women's groups about her experience. She was the cover girl for the February 2009 issue of St. Louis Woman Magazine, where she was featured in the article, "Paperback Princess." For the past several years, Susan has appeared frequently on "Great Day St. Louis" (KMOV Channel 4, CBS affiliate) to recommend book picks. She was recently named one of St. Louis's "Most Dynamic People of the Year" by the Ladue News.

Book Trailer:

Check out the Little Black Dress book trailer!

Interviews:

"Great Day St. Louis" (2/13/12): Susan talks about her top romantic reads

"Great Day St. Louis" (8/23/11): Susan talks about Little Black Dress