L.A. Starks
Dallas
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Texas USAContact: e-mail la AT lastarksbooks DOT com website: lastarksbooks.com
13 Days: The Pythagoras Conspiracy, Lynn Dayton Thriller #1, Strike Price, Lynn Dayton Thriller #2, The Second Law, Lynn Dayton Thriller #3, Winner's Curse, A Lynn Dayton Thriller
The Lynn Dayton Thrillers
Spy/Espionage, Suspense, Thriller
"Risk Reduction," in Reckless in Texas, Metroplex Mysteries Volume II; "Gumbo File" in Dreamspell Nightmares; additional flash fiction and Amazon Shorts short stories that inform the Lynn Dayton series
Subject Expertise, The Business of Writing
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Texan L. A. Starks was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in northern Oklahoma. Starks is the author of the award-winning Lynn Dayton thriller series: 13 DAYS: THE PYTHAGORAS CONSPIRACY, STRIKE PRICE, THE SECOND LAW, and WINNER’S CURSE. THE SECOND LAW was a quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition 2023; an Action-Adventure finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards 2020, and a Mystery & Thriller Quarterfinalist for The BookLife Prize in 2019. Her books have won Best International Thriller and Best Mystery/Thriller from the Texas Association of Authors. Starks’ short story, “Risk Reduction,” was chosen for the RECKLESS IN TEXAS, a Sisters in Crime anthology. Starks earned a B.S. (engineering) at Tulane and an MBA at the University of Chicago. She analyzes energy investments for Seeking Alpha. She has run 21 half-marathons and was in the first group of 25, out of 33,000+ graduates, inducted into the Ponca City, Oklahoma High School Hall of Fame.