Saralyn Richard

Saralyn Richard is an award-winning children’s fiction and mystery thriller author that hopes to change the world one book at a time. Just like many authors she loved reading from a very early age. Luckily, her mother gave her the encouragement she needed as she always took her to the local library every weekend and helped her start a personal library. She cut her teeth on the likes of Nancy Drew but later on she expanded her collection with Judy Bolton a companion series. Soon after, she was reading the likes of Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes among many other classics. During those early years, she thought she would grow up and make a career for herself in intelligence. Later on, she realized that she was better suited to writing stories about the detectives rather than being one herself. Nonetheless, she loved reading in all genres and went on to teach creative writing to adults and high schoolers. While many authors say they write mysteries for themes of evil and good, the tension and suspense or tight plots, she has a simpler reason for preferring the genre. For Richard, it is about the connection between the writer and reader as she unfolds the investigation and crime in a torturous path that heads toward a solution. Still, her first published work was a children’s book titled “Naughty Nana” that was told from the perspective of Nana her old English sheepdog.