Little Black Dress (McBride) - Author Bio

Author Bio
Susan McBride is the author of Little Black Dress (2011) and The Cougar Club (2010) selected by Target Stores as a Bookmarked Breakout Title and named a Midwest Connections Pick by the Midwest Booksellers Association. Cougar also made MORE Magazine's list of "February Books We're Buzzing About."  Foreign editions of The Cougar Club will be published in Croatia, France, and Turkey. The Cougar Club centers on three 45-year-old childhood pals from St. Louis who reconnect and discover that you're never too old to follow your heart.  After Little Black Dress, Susan will write Little White Lies, another women's fiction book for HarperCollins/Morrow, as well as Dead Address, a young adult thriller for Random House/Delacorte.

On the personal front, Susan calls herself an "Accidental Cougar" after meeting a younger man in 2005 when she was a St. Louis Magazine Top Single.  They were married in February 2008 and live happily ever after in a suburb of St. Louis.  Susan is a breast cancer survivor and often speaks to women's groups about her experience.

Additionally, Susan has written five award-winning Debutante Dropout Mysteries (HarperCollins/Avon), including Blue Blood, The Good Girl's Guide To Murder, The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club, Night Of The Living Deb, and Too Pretty To Die.  She has authored several YA series books for Random House about debutantes in Houston, the debut in 2008 appropriately titled The Debs and followed by Love, Lies, And Texas Dips in 2009.  Gloves Off, the third book, is in pub date limbo.

Susan was the cover girl for the February 2009 issue of St. Louis Woman Magazine, where she was featured in the article, "Paperback Princess."  (From the author's website.)