What would it be like to move into a house in which a murder had taken place? How would I feel if my best friend were arrested for murder on circumstantial evidence? As a question develops into an answer, I give a great deal of thought to my main character. “A mystery begins to develop in my mind when something sparks an idea and a question grows from it. Maybe I’m really a detective at heart because much later in my life, when I began to write books for young people, I discovered writing mysteries was even more fun than reading them.
I did love a mystery-on radio, in films, and especially in books. It was intriguing, suspenseful, and at times absolutely terrifying, and the title was correct. Nixon describes the pleasure she gets from writing mystery and suspense: “When I was young I discovered an evening radio program called I Love a Mystery. Nixon has four children and several grandchildren. She is the only four-time winner of the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery. Many of Nixon’s books have won state children’s choice awards. Her books have garnered numerous awards and accolades, including the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile and the Texas Institute of Letters Award. Nixon has written over 130 books for children from preschool age through young adult-including science books, co-authored with her husband, geologist Hershell Nixon. She has a degree in journalism and credentials in elementary education.
Whether it’s engrossing historical dramas, chilling mysteries, suspense-filled page-turners, or adventure stories, kids, teachers, and librarians love the books of Joan Lowery Nixon. Joan Lowery Nixon is the only four-time winner of the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award and a two-time winner of the California Young Reader Medal. The main character is the one to whom the readers will relate.”-Joan Lowery Nixon The direction of the story is determined by the main character’s ambitions and reactions. “In every story I write I give a great deal of thought to the main character, because the story is his, or hers.
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