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Joanna Campbell Slan
Joanna Campbell Slan started storytelling — and
winning awards for her writing — at an early age. Born
in Jacksonville, Florida, Joanna grew up in Vincennes,
Indiana, and graduated cum laude from Ball State University
(Muncie, Indiana) where she majored in journalism. Today
she’s the author of eleven non-fiction books, a
mystery series featuring Kiki Lowenstein, a spunky single
mom who loves to scrapbook, and a new series featuring
Charlotte Brontë’s classic heroine Jane Eyre as
an amateur sleuth. Joanna’s first
novel—Paper, Scissors, Death—was a 2009
Agatha Award finalist. The Kiki Lowenstein series has been
praised by the Library Journal as “topically
relevant and chock-full of side stories.”
Publisher’s Weekly calls them, “a cut
above the usual craft-themed cozy.”
RT Book Review has said that Kiki Lowenstein is that
she is “our best friend, our next-door neighbor and
ourselves with just a touch of the outrageous.” Once
you’ve met Joanna, you can guess where the outrageous
comes from. Ready, Scrap, Shoot, the fifth book in
the Kiki Lowenstein series, has just been released along
with short stories featuring Kiki. A sixth book in that
popular series has been scheduled. In addition, Joanna is
writing a new historical mystery series featuring Jane Eyre
as an amateur sleuth. Death of a Schoolgirl
(August 2012/ Berkley) marks the first entry in The Jane
Eyre Chronicles. In her ongoing quest to never see snow
again, Joanna lives with her two dogs and her husband on a
nearly deserted island—Jupiter Island, Florida.
Books:
 The Death of a Dowager, April 2013
Death of a Schoolgirl, August 2012
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