## SHORT BIO (50 words)
Lila Hart turns silence into suspense, channeling her Juilliard-honed ear for music into psychological thrillers. In *The Silent Symphony*, a deaf composer deciphers murders through vibrations felt in bones. From Chicago's lakefront, where she restores vintage violins, she scores her next auditory enigma.

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## MEDIUM BIO (150 words)
Lila Hart scored films before finding her true rhythm in novels that pulse with sound and shadow. *The Silent Symphony*—her gripping tale of a deaf composer solving murders by sensing vibrations—draws from her own days blending notes and narratives. A Juilliard alum, she left Hollywood's soundstages for Chicago's quieter muse, trading film reels for pages alive with imagined symphonies. There, amid stacks of sheet music and half-repaired violins, she walks Lake Michigan's shores daily, listening to waves that spark her plots. Her work obsesses over how sound—or its absence—betrays the human soul. Lila lives in Chicago, where she's drafting a sequel that echoes even louder.

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## LONG BIO (300 words)
Lila Hart's path from concert halls to crime scenes began with a violin in hand and a question in her ear: What does silence really hide? Trained at Juilliard, she composed scores for indie films, layering tension into every crescendo, until a quiet epiphany hit during a scoring session—stories needed her more than screens did. She pivoted to prose, infusing thrillers with the physics of sound: how frequencies linger, how vibrations reveal what eyes miss.

Her latest, *The Silent Symphony*, embodies this. A deaf composer in a world of unheard screams detects killers through bone-deep pulses—a nod to real acoustics Lila once charted for cinema. It's her sharpest work yet, blending musical theory with psychological depth, where motifs of isolation mirror her own shift from collaborative sets to solitary writing desk.

Influenced by Patricia Highsmith's sly manipulations and Beethoven's defiant late quartets, Lila chases themes of perception's fragility. No stranger to reinvention, she collects and restores vintage violins, each one a resurrection of forgotten voices, much like her protagonists. Chicago suits her now—its wind off Lake Michigan carries rhythms that fuel her drafts, and neighborhood cafes host her handwritten revisions.

Accolades followed naturally: early short stories in literary journals, then *The Silent Symphony*'s buzz from audio-loving critics. But Lila measures success in reader letters about "hearing" her twists anew. She's not done evolving; her next novel probes memory's echoes in a sound engineer's unraveling life. From Juilliard's bright lights to Chicago's foggy mornings, Lila Hart proves the most haunting stories resonate long after the final note.

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## FIRST-PERSON "ABOUT ME" (100 words)
I write psychological thrillers that sneak up on you like a low note you feel before you hear—like in *The Silent Symphony*, where a deaf composer cracks murders through vibrations. Juilliard shaped my ear for tension; films honed it for stories. Now from my Chicago perch, surrounded by violins I'm coaxing back to life, I chase what sound (or silence) betrays about us. Lake walks clear the plot cobwebs. Grab a copy, turn up the audio, and listen close—there's a killer hiding in the hum.

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## SOCIAL HANDLE BIOS
- **Twitter/X (160 chars):** Composer of shadows & sound. *The Silent Symphony*: deaf virtuoso solves murders via vibes. Chicago violin whisperer. #PsychThriller #BookTwitter @LilaHartBooks

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- **Instagram (150 chars):**
Hearing the unsaid.  
*The Silent Symphony*—murders pulse through silence. 🎻🔊  
Juilliard composer gone thriller rogue.  
Chicago lake walks & vintage fixes.  
Next book's humming...  

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- **LinkedIn (220 chars):** Lila Hart, novelist & former film composer (Juilliard). Author of *The Silent Symphony*, a psych thriller where vibrations expose killers. Blending music theory with narrative suspense. Chicago-based. Open to speaking on sound in storytelling. www.lilahart.com

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## AUTHOR PHOTO CAPTION
Lila Hart amid her vintage violins in Chicago, author of *The Silent Symphony*.

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Lila Hart  
lila@lilahart.com  
(312) 555-0192  
www.lilahart.com  
Twitter/X: @LilaHartBooks | Instagram: @lilahartwrites | LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lilahart