Melinda Lyons

Melinda Richarz Lyons earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of North Texas and has been a free lance writer for over forty years. Her articles have appeared in many publications, including Nashville Parent, Cats Magazine, True West, Chicken Soup for the Soul: True Love, Kids, Etc., Frontier Times, Reminisce, Cincinnati Family Magazine and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers. An award winning songwriter, she has also authored several books including the young readers novel, Murder at the Oaklands Mansion. Her non-fiction grief book, Crossing the Minefield, garnered a Royal Palm Literary Award and is included in grief support programs and bereavement library collections in all fifty states, including the Patient/Family Library at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her most recent work is the romance/mystery, Heir to a Secret. The Seventeen Dollar Murders will be released in the fall of 2017, and all books are available in both Kindle and paperback forms on www.amazon.com. She lives in Tyler, Texas and invites you to visit her website: http://www.melindalyons.com/.