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Joanna Campbell Slan American Author

Joanna is a New York Times and a USA Today bestselling author who has written more than 40 books, including both fiction and

non-fiction works. She was one of the early Chicken Soup for the Soul authors, and her stories appear in five of those New York

Times bestselling books. Her first non-fiction book, Using Stories and Humor: Grab Your Audience (Simon & Schuster/Pearson), was

endorsed by Toastmasters International, and lauded by Benjamin Netanyahu’s speechwriter.

She began her writing career under the name of Lila Dare publishing her first series: Southern Beauty Shop through Penguin Random House Publishers.

She’s the author of six mystery series. Her first novel—Paper, Scissors, Death: Book #1 in the Kiki Lowenstein Mystery Series—was shortlisted for the Agatha Award. Her first historical mystery—Death of a Schoolgirl: Book #1 in the Jane Eyre Chronicles—won the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence. Her contemporary series set in Florida continues with Ship Wrecked book #8 in the Cara Mia Delgatto Mystery Series which published in 2022. Her fantasy thriller series starts with Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Sumatran Rat.

Joanna was signed by the JaBerwocky Literary Agency to work with Tantor Media producing her Cara Mia Delgatto Series, Kiki Lowenstein Series, and Sherlock Holmes Series into audiobooks.

Joanna also began a new series with the release of Rising Water: Book #1 in the Tai Chi Mystery Series in 2021. The first book in a new

cozy mystery series featuring a  mature female amateur sleuth! Also released in 2021 is her newest series and a fan favorite: The Friday

Night Mystery Club set in Decatur, IL (1984).

In addition to writing fiction, Joanna edits the Happy Homicides Anthologies and has begun the Dollhouse D.cor & More series of “how

to” books for dollhouse miniaturists. Joanna independently published I’m Too Blessed to be Depressed back in 2004 when she was

working as a motivational speaker. She sold more than 34,000 copies of that title. Since then she’s gone on to independently publish a full-

color book, The Best of British Scrapbooking, numerous digital books, and coloring books. Her book Scrapbook Storytelling sold 120,000

copies.

She’s been an Amazon Bestselling Author too many times to count and has been included in the ranks of Amazon’s Top 100

Mystery Authors.

A former talk show host and sought-after motivational speaker, Joanna has spoken to small and large (1000+) groups on four continents.

Sharing Ideas Magazines named her “one of the top 25 speakers in the world.”

When she isn’t banging away at the keyboard, Joanna keeps busy walking her Havanese puppy Jax. An award-winning miniaturist, Joanna

builds dollhouses, dolls, and furniture from scratch. She’s also an accredited teacher of Zentangle.. Her

husband, David, owns Steinway Piano Gallery-DC and five other Steinway piano showrooms.

Joanna is a CTZ, a Certified Teacher of Zentangle..