Chicago Movie Girls (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781548177836)

Diana Reep has been a writer since she told horror stories to classmates in elementary school. With a Ph.D. in English, she taught film, popular culture, technical writing, and the Arthurian legend. and published a textbook and other academic studies. No longer grading papers, she's writing fiction and specializing in stories set in her favorite historical period around 1900. Her first YA release, The Dangerous Summer of Jesse Turner, follows three teens into danger when they volunteer to join Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War of 1898. Publishers Weekly called the book "a vivid historical outing." Kiss'd, another YA adventure, combines a ghost, time travel, danger, and romance in World War I. The Historical Novel Society called the book "gripping right from the earliest pages." Next up is a story about three sisters in the early silent movie days. She is a member of the Authors Guild, Historical Novel Society, Romance Writers of America, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Living in the Midwest, she crosses her fingers and hopes every fall that the coming winter will be mild.