Lynn Messina

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Lynn Messina
BornLynn Messina
1972
Long Island, United States
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Period2003-present
GenreRegency Mystery, Romance, Young Adult, Children’s Literature
Website
www.lynnmessina.com

Lynn Messina is an American author [1] of more than two dozen books [2] including her cozy mystery series set in England during the Regency era featuring sleuth Beatrice Hyde-Clare.

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Biography

Messina grew up on Long Island, New York. Her first job was a papergirl delivering Newsday newspapers after school. She co-edited her high school yearbook and newspaper.

At Washington University in St. Louis, she studied English Literature and Women Studies, spending her junior year studying at King's College London. After graduating she moved to Manhattan and worked as an editorial assistant at Avalon Books and the Museum of Television and Radio (now the Paley Center for Media).

She became a freelance copyeditor for magazines to focus on writing books. Red Dress Ink published her first novel Fashionistas, about scheming editors at a fashion magazine which became a bestseller, translated into 15 languages, and briefly optioned by producer Christine Peters as a vehicle for Lindsay Lohan. [3] When Fashionistas was mentioned in Women’s Wear Daily, Messina lost her regular gig at InStyle . [4]

She published four more novels with legacy publishers including Harcourt and HarperCollins before finding success as an independent author with Prejudice & Pride [5] and her Beatrice Hyde-Clare cozies [6] set in Regency-era England and the Verity Lark spin-off mysteries [7] . A Brazen Curiosity, the first Beatrice Hyde-Clare mystery, has also been published in translation by Harashobo [8] (Japanese), Les Escales [9] (French), Knihy Dobrovský [10] (Czech), Aula & Co. [11] (Finnish), Thiele Verlag [12] (German), Pioneer (Hungarian), and Znak [13] (Polish).

Other books she has published under the Potatoworks imprint include Girls’ Guide to Dating Zombies and the Love Takes Root series.

Her influences include Elizabeth Peters, Dorothy L. Sayers, Georgette Heyer, Baroness Orczy, Douglas Coupland, and Tom Stoppard.

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