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Elle Thornton

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My background as the daughter of a career Marine and my professional experience as a newspaper reporter (Massachusetts, Hawaii and Kansas), technical writer, and instructor in freshman English have helped me write two books: my debut mystery, Touch the Dead, and an earlier work, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis (YA, historical fiction).

Touch the Dead amazon.com/dp/B096W654KW is both a love story and a murder mystery. It unfolds in the steamy Florida summer of 2016. The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis amazon.com/dp/B007P73QPC is set on a military base in the segregated South of 1957.

In writing both books, I have made friends in the reading and writing communities. They have educated and inspired me, guided me on my journey and given me a needed foc
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Exciting New Author: AALIYAH BILAL

It was such a pleasure today (10/28)to learn about a promising new author, Aaliyah Bilal, whose short story collection Temple Folk will be published in July. Appearing with her editor Yahdon Israel, senior editor with Simon & Schuster, and Eric Simonoff, literary agent and partner with WME during an Authors Guild webinar, Bilal spoke movingly of her writing process: I was especially impressed when Read more of this blog post »
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“I'm too old to be ignorant as I am."
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.”
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