ABOUT LINDY

Lindy Miller Ryan is an entrepreneur, award-winning analytics professor, and publishing professional. In 2011, Ryan became the co-founder of Radiant Advisors, a business intelligence research and advisory firm, where as Research Director then Chief Operations Officer, she led the company's editorial and research divisions, and its data enablement practice, for clients that have included 21st Century Fox Films, Warner Bros., and Disney. In 2017, Ryan founded Black Spot Books, an independent small press focused in speculative fiction, which was acquired by Vesuvian Media Group in 2019. Now an accomplished publishing professional, Ryan currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and was named as one of Publishers Weekly's 2020 Star Watch Honorees. 

Ryan is a multi-genre award-winning and bestselling editor and author who grew up cutting her teeth on Goosebumps and now counts Anne Rice, Grady Hendrix, and Neil Gaiman among her favorite authors. She also writes clean, seasonal romance under the name ​Lindy Miller, where her books have received numerous awards and been adapted for screen.  Currently, she is collaborating as the lead author on a horror franchise project with a top veteran Hollywood director and an award-winning screenwriter.

When she's not immersed in books, Ryan is an avid historical researcher, with specific interest in nautical and maritime history, cryptozoology, and ancient civilizations. She is represented by Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Literary Management, supported by Meryl Moss Media, and is a member of numerous literary organizations, including the Horror Writers Association, the International Thriller Writers, and the Romance Writers of America.

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BOOK AWARDS

Praised by Publishers Weekly, Booktrib, and more, Lindy's book-to-screen romance, Aloha With Love, has been named to the Long List for the 2021 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romantic Fiction, a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

The Magic Ingredient, the first in Lindy's Bar Harbor Holiday Series, was a #1 Amazon Bestseller which received praise from Midwest Book Review, Booktrib, and more. It was an Award-Winning Finalist in the Best Cover Design: Fiction category of both the 2020 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest and the Eric Hoffer da Vincy Eye awards. The Magic Ingredient won 1st Place in the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romantic Fiction, a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards. It earned the bronze medal in the 2021 Feathered Quill Book Awards and was a finalist in the debut author category. The Magic Ingredient also earned the Phoenix Award for the Best New Voice: Fiction Romance in the 2020 Kops-Fetherling International Book Awards and was recognized as an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Eric Hoffer Awards for Romance. It is currently a finalist in the 2021 Booksellers' Best Award for Mid-Length Contemporary Fiction and the Patti Shenberger Award for Best First Book (Winners TBA).  It has currently been optioned for film.

A Midnight Clear, an award-winning anthology Lindy edited, was a #1 Amazon Bestseller which received praise from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and more. It won the Anthology Category of the 2020 International Book Awards and was a finalist in the 2020 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Readers' Choice Awards.

The Isle of Gold, written as Seven Jane, was a #1 multi-category Amazon Bestseller and a Barnes & Noble bestseller, and received praise from Booklist, Midwest Book Review​, and more. It was an award-winning finalist in the 2020 Next Generation Independent Book Awards (fantasy) and in the 2020 International Book awards (historical). It was also named to the 2020 Dante Rosetti Book Awards (Young Adult Fiction) long list and Chaucer (Pre-1750s Historical Fiction finalist (Winners TBA), genre divisions of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

Dead of Winter, a best-selling anthology Lindy edited, won the Anthologies category of the 2021 International Book Awards and was a 1st Prize finalist for the inaugural 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Short Story Collection award.

Trick or Treat, Alistair Gray, Lindy's unpublished children's Halloween picture book, won 1st Place in the2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers, a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards. It was also an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Purple Dragonfly Awards.

Throw Me to the Wolves, the first in Lindy's upcoming southern gothic horror series penned with co-author Christopher Brooks, was long listed for the 2020 Paranormal Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction​, a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.