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Susan McBride is the author of five Debutante Dropout
Mysteries from HarperCollins/Avon and the forthcoming YA series, THE DEBS,
from Delacorte (set to debut on August 26, 2008). Called "The Lou's Whodunit
Queen" by Sauce Magazine in St. Louis, Susan was selected as one of
the city's "top singles" in 2005 by St. Louis Magazine but is
single no more. She tied the knot in late February of 2008!
The
Debutante Dropout Mysteries feature Andrea "Andy" Kendricks, a 30-year-old
Dallas web designer, reluctant heiress and deb ball refugee, and her dyed-in-the-wool
Chanel-wearing socialite mother Cissy. The latest in the series, TOO PRETTY
TO DIE, hit bookstores on February 1, 2008. The
debut, BLUE BLOOD (2004), won the Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery
and received an Anthony Award nomination for Best Paperback Original. BLUE
BLOOD spent three months on the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association's
top ten best-sellers list, has gone into multiple printings, and was published
in large print by Thorndike Press. THE GOOD
GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER (2005), was a BookSense
pick, an IMBA bestseller, and an Anthony Award nominee for Best PBO. THE LONE
STAR LONELY HEARTS CLUB (2006) was one of three finalists for the William
Rockhill Nelson Award, presented to Kansas and Missouri authors for excellence
in literature. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEB (2007) was an IMBA best-seller as
well. The Deb Dropout books have been featured
alternate selections of the Mystery Guild. THE LONE STAR LONELY HEARTS CLUB
has been translated into Turkish (believe it or not!). NIGHT OF THE LIVING
DEB and TOO PRETTY TO DIE are also available as e-books. Susan
has a Journalism degree from the University of Kansas, but always dreamed of making
up stories rather than reporting them. The idea for the Debutante Dropout series
came from her memories of pledging Pi Beta Phi at the University of Texas in Austin
and watching the Dallas debutantes practice their curtsies in study hall. Susan
lived in Texas for 20 years before moving to St. Louis in 1996, so she claims
to have the Lone Star State tattooed on her heart, right beside the Gateway Arch.
Susan's first novel, AND THEN SHE WAS GONE,
was published by a small traditional press in 1999 and went into a second printing
in 2000. The book was a finalist in the St. Martin's Press Malice Domestic contest
and won the National Writers Association's Best Novel Contest. It was nominated
for a Reviewer's Choice Award for Best First Mystery by RT BookReviews Magazine.
The second in the Maggie Ryan series, OVERKILL, was an RT Top Pick. Susan's
short fiction and essays have appeared in several anthologies, including THE
SPIRIT OF WRITING: CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY ESSAYS CELEBRATING THE WRITING LIFE
and MAYHEM IN THE MIDLANDS. For information
relating to Susan’s Avon mysteries, please contact Danielle Bartlett at mailto:danielle.bartlett@harpercollins.com.
For information on THE DEBS young adult series with Random House, contact mailto:cgabel@randomhouse.com. To contact
Susan directly, email mailto:Susan@SusanMcBride.com
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