Joanna Campbell Slan
Growing up in a small town in Southern Indiana, Joanna Campbell Slan knew two things: 1.) she wanted to be an author and 2.) she wanted to see the world. As a humorist she has spoken on four continents and many of the fifty states. Her first novel Paper, Scissors, Death was a finalist for the Agatha Award, which was named for Dame Agatha Christie. She’s an international celebrity in the world of scrapbooking and the author of eleven non-fiction books. When she’s not busy writing in her beach house on Jupiter Island, Florida, Joanna is attending social events in Washington, DC.
Joanna is the author of 16 books with over 200,000 in print. Her first book Using Stories and Humor: Grab Your Audience was endorsed by Toastmasters, International. She has stories in five of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books as well as six other anthologies–one was made into a television show for the PAX network.
As a motivational speaker, she has traveled the world, appearing on four continents and presenting to crowds of up to 1,000 people. She was named one of the top 25 speakers in the world by Sharing Ideas Magazine, and one of the top 3 speakers in the state of Illinois.
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About the books:
Paper, Scissors, Death
* Agatha Award Finalist
(Midnight Ink, 2008)
Kiki Lowenstein’s comfortable world turns upside down when her husband’s body is discovered. When she learns he “borrowed” a half a million dollars from his company, Kiki sells everything they own. To keep a roof over her head and food on the table for her and her eleven-year-old daughter, Kiki takes a job in a scrapbook store. Determined to bring her husband’s killer to justice, she falls in love with a handsome detective and plays amateur sleuth until the murderer decides Kiki is too close to the truth.
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Cut, Crop, & Die
(Midnight Ink, 2009)
When a rival scrapbooker is murdered, Kiki Lowenstein must prove that she had nothing to do with the death or she’ll lose her job. Meanwhile, her romance with hunky Detective Chad Detweiler hits a bump in the road. Determined to keep her new career as a scrapbooking expert, Kiki follows the clues that lead her into jeopardy—but uncover a crafty murder bent on revenge.
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Photo, Snap, Shot
(Midnight Ink, 2010)
An unpopular teacher is found bludgeoned to death, and Kiki is worried that her daughter Anya might have spotted the murderer leaving the scene of the crime. Fear for her child’s safety leads Kiki to take all sorts of risks and to explore a 132-year-old secret society that might be the answer to “whodunit.”
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