**AUTHOR BIO & MEDIA KIT for [Author Name]**

## SHORT BIO (50 words)
[Author Name] crafts spine-tingling thrillers where ordinary people unravel small-town conspiracies. In *The Silent Echo*, a podcaster discovers her town's drowned history hides fresh murders. A former journalist, she now lives in Vermont, decoding real estate deeds for her next plot twist.

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## MEDIUM BIO (150 words)
[Author Name]'s debut *The Silent Echo* redefines the domestic thriller by blending true-crime podcasting with a submerged town's secrets—where a hostess's investigation drags her family into danger. Drawing from a decade as an investigative reporter exposing corporate cover-ups, she pivots those skills to fiction that grips like a front-page scoop. Humanizing her edge: she's mom to two feral cats and brews coffee strong enough to wake the dead. Her stories obsess over how silence breeds violence, echoing her own beat covering forgotten communities. She divides time between Vermont's misty hills and city archives, plotting *Echo Chamber*, where online rumors turn lethal.

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## LONG BIO (300 words)
Born in a rust-belt town that felt like the set of a noir film, [Author Name] always chased stories others ignored. As a journalist for regional papers, she broke exposés on factory poisonings and political graft, honing a nose for buried truths. Burnout led her to fiction, where she could amplify the whispers without red tape. *The Silent Echo* marks her arrival: a podcaster in a New England town unearths 1950s flood victims whose "accidental" deaths mirror current killings tied to land developers. The book, born from her archival dives into Vermont flood records, throbs with her fixation on water as metaphor for suppressed memory—rivers that drown secrets, rain that erodes alibis.

Accolades followed swiftly: a Crime Writers fellowship and starred reviews praising its "podcaster sleuth as fresh as Serial." Influences span Ruth Ware's claustrophobia and Michelle McNamara's doggedness, fused with her reporter's ear for the off-record lie. She's no stranger to the grind—balancing drafts with freelance gigs, cat herding, and caffeine rituals that fuel 4 a.m. writing sprints.

Now, with *The Silent Echo* optioned for TV, she's deep in *Echo Chamber*, probing how viral posts ignite real-world vendettas. Living between a creaky Vermont farmhouse and Boston's libraries, she teaches occasional workshops on narrative nonfiction, urging writers to dig where it hurts. Her work insists: the past isn't buried—it's just waiting for the right voice to drag it up gasping.

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## FIRST-PERSON "ABOUT ME" (100 words)
I write thrillers because real life is scary enough, but fiction lets me connect the dots. *The Silent Echo* started with dusty flood reports from my Vermont town—now it's a podcaster fighting to surface murders masked as history. By day, I'm chasing leads (or cats); by night, twisting truths into chills. Grab coffee as black as my plots, and let's talk stories that stick.

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## SOCIAL HANDLE BIOS
- **Twitter/X (160 chars)**: Thriller writer unearthing small-town drownings in *The Silent Echo*. Ex-reporter spilling podcast-fueled chills. Cats > humans. #ThrillerWriter #SilentEcho [link to book]

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- **Instagram (150 chars)**:  
Podcaster sleuths & submerged secrets 📻💧  
*The Silent Echo*—flooded past, fresh kills.  
Ex-journo, cat mom, coffee fiend ☕🐱  
Vermont vibes | Next: *Echo Chamber* 👻

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- **LinkedIn (220 chars)**: Investigative reporter turned thriller author. *The Silent Echo* (Pub: [Publisher]) explores true-crime podcasting amid a town's hidden 1950s flood murders. Decade in journalism; Crime Writers fellow. Teaching narrative craft. Open to speaking, TV adaptation collabs. Vermont-based.

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## AUTHOR PHOTO CAPTION
[Author Name], author of *The Silent Echo*, peers from her Vermont writing nook, surrounded by research stacks on forgotten floods.

## MEDIA CONTACT BLOCK
[Author Name]  
email@authordomain.com  
(802) 555-0199  
www.authorname.com  
Twitter: @AuthorNameWrites | IG: @authornamebooks | LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/authorname