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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 | + | 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. |
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
== On The Web == | == On The Web == | ||
| − | * [ | + | * Website [https://www.patriciamclinn.com/] |
| + | * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_McLinn] | ||
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=== Books === | === Books === | ||
| − | * ''[[ | + | * ''[[Abandon All]]'' - 2019 |
| − | * ''[[ | + | * ''[[Air Ready]]'' - 2023 |
| − | * ''[[ | + | * ''[[Almost A Bride]]'' - 2001 |
| − | * ''[[The Games|Games, The]]'' - | + | * ''[[At The Heart's Command]]'' - 2000 |
| − | * ''[[Grady's Wedding]]'' - | + | * ''[[Baby Blues And Wedding Bells]]'' - 2005 |
| − | * ''[[Hidden In A Heartbeat]]'' - | + | * ''[[Back Story]]'' - 2017 |
| − | * ''[[Hoops]]'' - | + | * ''[[The Beginning|Beginning, The]]'' - 2013 |
| − | * ''[[Least Likely Wedding?]]'' - | + | * ''[[Body Brace]]'' - 2021 |
| − | * ''[[Lost-And-Found Groom]]'' - | + | * ''[[The Christmas Princess|Christmas Princess, The]]'' - 2014 |
| − | * ''[[Match Made In Wyoming]]'' - | + | * ''[[Cold Open]]'' - 2018 |
| − | * ''[[My Heart Remembers]]'' - | + | * ''[[Courting A Cowboy]]'' - 2012 |
| − | * ''[[A New World|New World, A]]'' - | + | * ''[[A Cowboy Wedding|Cowboy Wedding, A]]'' - 2017 |
| − | * ''[[Not A Family Man]]'' - | + | * ''[[Cross Talk]]'' - 2022 |
| − | * ''[[Prelude To A Wedding]]'' - | + | * ''[[Cue Up]]'' - 2024 |
| − | * ''[[The Rancher Meets His Match|Rancher Meets His Match, The]]'' - | + | * ''[[Death On Beguiling Way]]'' - 2019 |
| − | * ''[[The Right Brother| | + | * ''[[Death On Carrion Lane]]'' - 2022 |
| − | * ''[[Rodeo Nights]]'' - | + | * ''[[Death On Covert Circle]]'' - 2020 |
| − | * ''[[The Runaway Bride|Runaway Bride, The]]'' - | + | * ''[[Death On Puzzle Place]]'' - 2024 |
| − | * ''[[A Stranger In The Family|Stranger In The Family, A]]'' - | + | * ''[[Death On Riddle Road]]'' - 2025 |
| − | * ''[[A Stranger To Love|Stranger To Love, A]]'' - | + | * ''[[Death On Shady Bridge]]'' - 2020 |
| − | * ''[[The Unexpected Wedding Guest|Unexpected Wedding Guest, The]]'' - | + | * ''[[Death On The Diversion]]'' - 2018 |
| − | * ''[[Wedding Of The Century]]'' - | + | * ''[[Death On Torrid Ave.]]'' - 2019 |
| − | + | * ''[[Death On ZigZag Trail]]'' - 2023 | |
| − | + | * ''[[Falling For Her]]'' - 2014 | |
| − | + | * ''[[First Date: Divorce]]'' - 2022 | |
| + | * ''[[The Forgotten Prince|Forgotten Prince, The]]'' - 2016 | ||
| + | * ''[[The Games|Games, The]]'' - 2006 | ||
| + | * ''[[Grady's Wedding]]'' - 1993 | ||
| + | * ''[[Head Room]]'' - 2025 | ||
| + | * ''[[The Heart Of Christmas|Heart Of Christmas, The]]'' - 2013 | ||
| + | * ''[[Heart Stealers]]'' - 2013 | ||
| + | * ''[[Hidden In A Heartbeat]]'' - 2000 | ||
| + | * ''[[Holiday Bullets]]'' - 2023 | ||
| + | * ''[[Hoops]]'' - 1990 | ||
| + | * ''[[Hot Roll]]'' - 2019 | ||
| + | * ''[[Jack's Heart]]'' - 2015 | ||
| + | * ''[[Last Ditch]]'' - 2015 | ||
| + | * ''[[Least Likely Wedding?]]'' - 2005 | ||
| + | * ''[[Left Hanging]]'' - 2013 | ||
| + | * ''[[Look Live]]'' - 2016 | ||
| + | * ''[[Lost-And-Found Groom]]'' - 2000 | ||
| + | * ''[[Making Christmas]]'' - 2020 | ||
| + | * ''[[Match Made In Wyoming]]'' - 2001 | ||
| + | * ''[[A Most Unlikely Wedding|Most Unlikely Wedding, A]]'' - 2016 | ||
| + | * ''[[My Heart Remembers]]'' - 2001 | ||
| + | * ''[[A New World|New World, A]]'' - 1990 | ||
| + | * ''[[Not A Family Man]]'' - 1994 | ||
| + | * ''[[Prelude To A Wedding]]'' - 1991 | ||
| + | * ''[[Premise Of Innocence]]'' - 2022 | ||
| + | * ''[[Price Of Innocence]]'' - 2021 | ||
| + | * ''[[Principal Of Love]]'' - 2010 | ||
| + | * ''[[Proof Of Innocence]]'' - 2018 | ||
| + | * ''[[The Rancher Meets His Match|Rancher Meets His Match, The]]'' - 1998 | ||
| + | * ''[[Reaction Shot]]'' - 2020 | ||
| + | * ''[[Ride The River]]'' - 2017 | ||
| + | * ''[[The Right Brother|right Brother, The]]'' - 2006 | ||
| + | * ''[[Rodeo Nights]]'' - 1994 | ||
| + | * ''[[The Runaway Bride|Runaway Bride, The]]'' - 2002 | ||
| + | * ''[[Second Start: Family]]'' - 2023 | ||
| + | * ''[[Shoot First]]'' - 2014 | ||
| + | * ''[[Sign Off]]'' - 2015 | ||
| + | * ''[[A Stranger In The Family|Stranger In The Family, A]]'' - 1995 | ||
| + | * ''[[A Stranger To Love|Stranger To Love, A]]'' - 1997 | ||
| + | * ''[[The Surprise Princess|Surprise Princess, The]]'' - 2015 | ||
| + | * ''[[To Love A Cowboy]]'' - 2013 | ||
| + | * ''[[The Unexpected Wedding Guest|Unexpected Wedding Guest, The]]'' - 2003 | ||
| + | * ''[[Warm Front]]'' - 2017 | ||
| + | * ''[[Wedding Of The Century]]'' - 2003 | ||
| + | * ''[[Wedding Party]]'' - 1992 | ||
| + | * ''[[What Are Friends For?]]'' - 2006 | ||
| + | * ''[[Where Love Lives: The Inheritance]]'' - 2015 | ||
| + | * ''[[Widow Woman]]'' - 1998 | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Series/Related Titles== | ||
| + | '''Bardville, Wyoming''' | ||
| + | # ''[[A Stranger In The Family]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[A Stranger To Love]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[The Rancher Meets His Match]]'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Caught Dead in Wyoming''' | ||
| + | # ''[[Sign Off]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Left Hanging]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Shoot First]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Last Ditch]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Look Live]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Back Story]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Cold Open]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Hot Roll]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Reaction Shot]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Body Brace]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Cross Talk]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Air Ready]]'' | ||
| + | :: 12.5 ''[[Holiday Bullets]]'' | ||
| + | : 13. ''[[Cue Up]]'' | ||
| + | : 14. ''[[Head Room]]'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Innocence''' | ||
| + | # ''[[Proof Of Innocence]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Price Of Innocence]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Premise Of Innocence]]'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''A Place Called Home''' | ||
| + | # ''[[Lost-And-Found Groom]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[At The Heart's Command]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Hidden In A Heartbeat]]'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Rodeo Knights''' (multi-author series) | ||
| + | : 12. ''[[Ride The River]]'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''Seasons in a Small Town''' | ||
| + | # ''[[What Are Friends For?]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[The Right Brother]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Principal Of Love]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Falling For Her]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[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''' | ||
| + | # ''[[Wedding Of The Century]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[The Unexpected Wedding Guest]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Least Likely Wedding?]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Baby Blues And Wedding Bells]]'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Wedding''' | ||
| + | # ''[[Prelude To A Wedding]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Wedding Party]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Grady's Wedding]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[The Christmas Princess]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[The Surprise Princess]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[The Forgotten Prince]]'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Wyoming Marriage Association''' | ||
| + | # ''[[First Date: Divorce]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Second Start: Family]]'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Wyoming Wildflowers''' | ||
| + | :: .5 ''[[The Beginning]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Almost A Bride]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Match Made In Wyoming]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[My Heart Remembers]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[A New World]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Jack's Heart]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Where Love Lives: The Inheritance]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[A Cowboy Wedding]]'' | ||
| + | # ''[[Making Christmas]]'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Recognitions== | ||
| + | *1991 [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - First Book, ''[[Hoops]]'' | ||
Latest revision as of 22:25, 9 January 2025
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.
On The Web
Books
- Abandon All - 2019
- Air Ready - 2023
- Almost A Bride - 2001
- At The Heart's Command - 2000
- Baby Blues And Wedding Bells - 2005
- Back Story - 2017
- Beginning, The - 2013
- Body Brace - 2021
- Christmas Princess, The - 2014
- Cold Open - 2018
- Courting A Cowboy - 2012
- Cowboy Wedding, A - 2017
- Cross Talk - 2022
- Cue Up - 2024
- Death On Beguiling Way - 2019
- Death On Carrion Lane - 2022
- Death On Covert Circle - 2020
- Death On Puzzle Place - 2024
- Death On Riddle Road - 2025
- Death On Shady Bridge - 2020
- Death On The Diversion - 2018
- Death On Torrid Ave. - 2019
- Death On ZigZag Trail - 2023
- Falling For Her - 2014
- First Date: Divorce - 2022
- Forgotten Prince, The - 2016
- Games, The - 2006
- Grady's Wedding - 1993
- Head Room - 2025
- Heart Of Christmas, The - 2013
- Heart Stealers - 2013
- Hidden In A Heartbeat - 2000
- Holiday Bullets - 2023
- Hoops - 1990
- Hot Roll - 2019
- Jack's Heart - 2015
- Last Ditch - 2015
- Least Likely Wedding? - 2005
- Left Hanging - 2013
- Look Live - 2016
- Lost-And-Found Groom - 2000
- Making Christmas - 2020
- Match Made In Wyoming - 2001
- Most Unlikely Wedding, A - 2016
- My Heart Remembers - 2001
- New World, A - 1990
- Not A Family Man - 1994
- Prelude To A Wedding - 1991
- Premise Of Innocence - 2022
- Price Of Innocence - 2021
- Principal Of Love - 2010
- Proof Of Innocence - 2018
- Rancher Meets His Match, The - 1998
- Reaction Shot - 2020
- Ride The River - 2017
- right Brother, The - 2006
- Rodeo Nights - 1994
- Runaway Bride, The - 2002
- Second Start: Family - 2023
- Shoot First - 2014
- Sign Off - 2015
- Stranger In The Family, A - 1995
- Stranger To Love, A - 1997
- Surprise Princess, The - 2015
- To Love A Cowboy - 2013
- Unexpected Wedding Guest, The - 2003
- Warm Front - 2017
- Wedding Of The Century - 2003
- Wedding Party - 1992
- What Are Friends For? - 2006
- Where Love Lives: The Inheritance - 2015
- Widow Woman - 1998
Series/Related Titles
Bardville, Wyoming
Caught Dead in Wyoming
- Sign Off
- Left Hanging
- Shoot First
- Last Ditch
- Look Live
- Back Story
- Cold Open
- Hot Roll
- Reaction Shot
- Body Brace
- Cross Talk
- Air Ready
- 12.5 Holiday Bullets
- 13. Cue Up
- 14. Head Room
Innocence
A Place Called Home
Rodeo Knights (multi-author series)
- 12. Ride The River
Seasons in a Small Town'
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
- Wedding Of The Century
- The Unexpected Wedding Guest
- Least Likely Wedding?
- Baby Blues And Wedding Bells
Wedding
- Prelude To A Wedding
- Wedding Party
- Grady's Wedding
- The Runaway Bride
- The Christmas Princess
- The Surprise Princess
- The Forgotten Prince
Wyoming Marriage Association
Wyoming Wildflowers
- Almost A Bride
- Match Made In Wyoming
- My Heart Remembers
- A New World
- Jack's Heart
- Where Love Lives: The Inheritance
- A Cowboy Wedding
- Making Christmas
Recognitions
- 1991 RITA Award Finalist - First Book, Hoops
