Wendy Corsi Staub

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The United States

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female

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http://www.wendycorsistaub.com/

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Mystery & Thrillers

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New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than seventy published novels. Under her own name, Wendy achieved New York Times bestselling status with the single title psychological suspense novels she writes for Zebra Books. Those novels and the women's fiction she writes under the pseudonym Wendy Markham have also frequently appeared on the USA Today, Barnes and Noble Top Ten, and Bookscan bestseller lists.

Currently under contract with four major publishers, Wendy will release a total of sixteen novels in a eighteen-month period that extends into fall 2008. Notable among these are 2007 New York Times bestsellers DON'T SCREAM (Zebra, May 2007) and MOST LIKELY TO DIE (Zebra, February 2007), a suspense nove...more New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than seventy published novels. Under her own name, Wendy achieved New York Times bestselling status with the single title psychological suspense novels she writes for Zebra Books. Those novels and the women's fiction she writes under the pseudonym Wendy Markham have also frequently appeared on the USA Today, Barnes and Noble Top Ten, and Bookscan bestseller lists.

Currently under contract with four major publishers, Wendy will release a total of sixteen novels in a eighteen-month period that extends into fall 2008. Notable among these are 2007 New York Times bestsellers DON'T SCREAM (Zebra, May 2007) and MOST LIKELY TO DIE (Zebra, February 2007), a suspense novel she co-wrote with fellow New York Times authors Lisa Jackson and Beverly Barton. LILY DALE: AWAKENING (Walker, September 2007) was the launch book in her new young adult paranormal suspense series, and will be followed by at least three more titles through early 2009. The series has been optioned for television.

Wendy continues to write romance and chick lit as "Wendy Markham," whose latest titles include the Christmas Time Travel romance, IF ONLY IN MY DREAMS (reissued by Signet, December 2007); the new installment in her bestselling chick lit series, SLIGHTLY SUBURBAN (Red Dress Ink, July 2008); and the light paranormal romance THAT'S AMORE (Grand Central Publishing, August 2008), the latest installment in her Chickalini Family series.

Having won two RWA Rita awards and twice been awarded the Washington Irving Prize for Fiction, Wendy was honored as one of NY's Westchester County Millennial Authors in 2000. She was the 2007 recipient of the RWA-NYC Lifetime Achievement Golden Apple Award, and is nominated for a 2008 RT Bookreviews Magazine Award for Career Achievement in Suspense. Her Wendy Markham novel SLIGHTLY SINGLE was selected as one of Waldenbooks' 100 Best Fiction titles of 2002. Her thriller THE LAST TO KNOW was nominated for the RT BOOKclub Reviewers Choice award and five of her novels, DON'T SCREAM; THE LAST TO KNOW; MIKE, MIKE AND ME; HELLO, IT'S ME; and BRIDE NEEDS GROOM, were awarded a month's top pick review by the RTBOOKclub magazine.

Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide and a number of her titles have been selected as features for Mystery Guild, Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Large Print Book Club, and Rhapsody Book Club.

Wendy grew up in a large, close-knit family in rural southwestern New York State and decided she wanted to become an author while in third grade. An English major at the State University of New York, she worked in two independent bookstores during college, then moved alone to New York City at 21 to pursue her dream. After stints as a book editor for a Manhattan publishing house and an account coordinator for a major advertising agency, she sold her first novel, the supernatural young adult thriller SUMMER LIGHTNING. Early in her writing career, she published in various genres including suspense, horror, historical and contemporary romance, television and movie tie-in, and biography. She also co-authored a mystery series with former New York City mayor Ed Koch and ghost-wrote for a number of bestselling authors and celebrities.

Wendy now lives in the New York City suburbs with her husband of seventeen years and their two children. (less)

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Books by Wendy Corsi Staub

Average rating: 3.90 · 6,996 ratings · 704 reviews · 60 distinct works

	Awakening (Lily Dale, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 638 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Don't Scream 3.97 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Believing (Lily Dale, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Kiss Her Goodbye 3.94 avg rating — 359 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Connecting (Lily Dale, #3) 4.06 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Live to Tell (Live to Tell #1) 3.68 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	All The Way Home 4.01 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Discovering (Lily Dale, #4) 4.18 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Final Victim 3.85 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Last To Know 4.00 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Live to Tell (3 books)
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Quotes by Wendy Corsi Staub

“We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.”
― Wendy Corsi Staub, Awakening

tags: birth , death , life

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“She grinned, looking for all the world like a sticky-mouthed little girl who had just convinced her gullible mother that she really did drop the first piece of candy into the storm drain and would need another.”
― Wendy Corsi Staub, A Thoroughly Modern Princess

tags: candy , child , funny

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“But if there was no baby ...
Then he wouldn't be a daddy.
And for aome reason, he desperatly wanted to be a daddy.”
― Wendy Corsi Staub, A Thoroughly Modern Princess

tags: baby , daddy , heartfelt

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