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Bio:
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Kelli Stanley is an award-winning author of crime fiction (novels and short stories). She makes her home in Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco, a city she loves to write about. Kelli earned a Masters Degree in Classics, loves jazz, classic films, battered fedoras and speakeasies.
Kelli’s second novel CITY OF DRAGONS received three starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist and Library Journal, was an RT Book Reviews Top Pick for February, 2010, was an American Bookseller's Association Indie Next Pick, and was selected for the Killer Book list by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.
"Children's Day", a short story prequel to CITY OF DRAGONS, was published June 22, 2010, by Tor/Forge in the International Thriller Writers Anthology FIRST THRILLS: HIGH OCTANE STORIES FROM THE HOTTEST THRILLER AUTHORS, featuring stories from NYT Bestsellers and rising authors of the thriller genre.
THE CURSE-MAKER--the sequel to NOX DORMIENDA--will be released by Thomas Dunne/Minotaur Books on February 1, 2011.
Kelli's debut novel, NOX DORMIENDA (A Long Night for Sleeping) (Five Star; July, 2008), won the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award and was a Macavity Award finalist.
For more information, reviews, excerpts, contests and multimedia about Kelli and her work, visit her website.
Kelli was a member of the ITW Debut Author class of 2008.
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