Phyllis Bandy (Author of The Light Finder)

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Phyllis Bandy

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Born

in Granite City, IL , The United States

Genre

Thriller, Romance, Mystery

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January 2015

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Born 05/20/1950 (70 years old, oh my!)
Raised in a big working class family (ten children).
When I was in my thirties, my sister and I wrote a novel, with me as writer, and my sister as editor. At the time, I was proud of the story. We submitted it to a midsize publisher. Their response was succinct and brutal. Like a knife to the heart. Our book was laid to rest in her basement on a shelf in the back in the corner in the dark. In retrospect, it was where it belonged.
However, also in retrospect, we did not fully understand the process of submitting a novel to a publisher. We did not know how important an agent was during that age of author processes when trying to publish a story.
I continued to write a few stories over the years. I was neve ...more

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Average rating: 4.1 · 10 ratings · 2 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Light Finder: Thriller Light Series Book 1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Killing the Shine: Thriller Light Series Book 2 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Dead Room (Book 3) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 20	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Dead Room: Thriller Book Series Book 3 (Thriller Light Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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How I Wrote My Thriller Light Series

When I began writing my Light series, I planned on writing only one book called Killing the Shine. When I did my fourth or fifth reading of my first draft I began to worry about a lot of backstory in my current story which involved several journals written by a character when she is dying to a character in the main (modern) story. I felt the backstory was necessary to explain why some things may b Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 20, 2020 16:25 • Tags: romance, series, thriller

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Cold Target

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