Patricia McLinn

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Patricia McLinn (born in Illinois) is the author of more than 40 novels in the genres of romance, women's fiction and mystery fiction.

Patricia McLinn attended Northwestern University, where she obtained her BA in English Composition in only three years. She continued at Northwestern, obtaining her Masters's in Journalism in her fourth year.

McLinn began her journalism career as a sports writer for the Rockford Register Star (Illinois). She went on to become the assistant sports editor at The Charlotte Observer (North Carolina) before moving on to The Washington Post. In more than 20 years at the Washington Post, she was copy chief for the sports department and an editor for the news service, among other positions.

McLinn began seriously writing as a break from chipping away at layer upon layer of wallpaper in a home improvement frenzy. According to McLinn, she began pursuing publication after hearing a talk by a writer who introduced her to the Washington, D.C. Chapter of Romance Writers of America.

In 1990, McLinn published her first novel, Hoops for Silhouette. Hoops was a RITA award finalist and won the New Jersey Romance Writers Golden Leaf Award. Since then, McLinn has published an additional 40 books. Hoops, as well as books such as The Games (Winter Olympics) and Rodeo Nights, call on McLinn's background as a sports writer. Research trips to Wyoming have resulted in several of McLinn's subsequent romance series being set in that rugged state, as she discussed in a recent The Joys of Binge Reading podcast.

McLinn has written for Harlequin Enterprises, Delphi Books, and Belle Books, as well as independent e-publishing through A Writer's Work, and the usual array of commercial outlets. She has spoken about writing from Melbourne, Australia, to Washington, D.C., including being a guest speaker at the Smithsonian Institution.

She started a mystery series, Caught Dead in Wyoming, in 2012 with Sign Off, a finalist for the EPIC Mystery eBook award. The latest Caught Dead in Wyoming novel, Cold Open (Book 7), released in August 2018, and an eighth book, Hot Roll, released in spring of 2019. A new mystery with romance, set in Virginia and titled, Proof of Innocence, was published in May 2018. A sequel to that book, Price of Innocence, was published in 2021.

In 2018, McLinn started a podcast, called Authors Love Readers. The podcast, hosted by McLinn, is described as a weekly conversation between authors about how and why they create stories. Guest authors write in all sorts of fiction genres and take varied paths to publication – independent, traditional, hybrid and other combinations.

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Books

Series/Related Titles

Bardville, Wyoming

  1. A Stranger In The Family
  2. A Stranger To Love
  3. The Rancher Meets His Match

Caught Dead in Wyoming

  1. Sign Off
  2. Left Hanging
  3. Shoot First
  4. Last Ditch
  5. Look Live
  6. Back Story
  7. Cold Open
  8. Hot Roll
  9. Reaction Shot
  10. Body Brace
  11. Cross Talk
  12. Air Ready
12.5 Holiday Bullets
13. Cue Up
14. Head Room

Innocence

  1. Proof Of Innocence
  2. Price Of Innocence
  3. Premise Of Innocence

A Place Called Home

  1. Lost-And-Found Groom
  2. At The Heart's Command
  3. Hidden In A Heartbeat

Rodeo Knights (multi-author series)

12. Ride The River

Seasons in a Small Town'

  1. What Are Friends For?
  2. The Right Brother
  3. Principal Of Love
  4. Falling For Her
  5. Warm Front

Secret Sleuth

1. Death On the Diversion
2. Death On Torrid Ave.
2.5 Abandon All
3. Death On Beguiling Way
4. Death On Covert Circle
5. Death On Shady Bridge
6. Death On Carrion Lane
7. Death On ZigZag Trail
8. Death On Puzzle Place
9. Death On Riddle Road

Something Old, Something New

  1. Wedding Of The Century
  2. The Unexpected Wedding Guest
  3. Least Likely Wedding?
  4. Baby Blues And Wedding Bells

Wedding

  1. Prelude To A Wedding
  2. Wedding Party
  3. Grady's Wedding
  4. The Runaway Bride
  5. The Christmas Princess
  6. The Surprise Princess
  7. The Forgotten Prince

Wyoming Marriage Association

  1. First Date: Divorce
  2. Second Start: Family

Wyoming Wildflowers

.5 The Beginning
  1. Almost A Bride
  2. Match Made In Wyoming
  3. My Heart Remembers
  4. A New World
  5. Jack's Heart
  6. Where Love Lives: The Inheritance
  7. A Cowboy Wedding
  8. Making Christmas

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