Music turned out to be harder than she thought it would be and hence she decided to focus only in writing. She sold her first work to Harlequin right after completing her college studies before she tried her hand in music. Josh Lanyon has always wanted to be a writer ever since she was a child and started writing poetry when she was sixteen. She currently lives in Southern California with her husband Kevin Burton Smith. She also made the shortlist for the Best Gay Mystery at the Lambda Literary Awards on four different instances, and is a four-time Eppie Award winner. Josh Lanyon was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award by Goodreads Favorite M/M Author awards. The Adrien English series got the All Time Favorite Male Male Couple Goodreads M/M Group Award.

Her novel “Fatal Shadows” was the first foreign-authored title to make the Boy Love novelist in Japan in 2016. Her novellas include The Dangerous Ground series, The Doyle & Spain series, The Haunted Heart series, The I Spy series, The In A Dark Wood series, The Xoxo Files series, The Dark Horse series among other freestanding novellas and short stories. Over the course of about seven years, she published her sixty titles in the Adrien English series, the Holmes & Moriarity Series, A Shot In the Dark series, The All’s Fair series, The Art of Murder series among several freestanding novels.

Her debut novel was “Fair Game” an FBI thriller was published by the biggest Italian Romance Harlequin Mondadori. Her novels have been translated into more than ten languages. Her excellent fiction has once made her be referred to as the gay mystery Agatha Christie. Josh Lanyon is an American male/male fiction author that has written over sixty novels featuring unapologetic male on male romance, great adventure, and twisty mystery.

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