Cylin Busby is an author and screenwriter, known for the best-selling true crime memoir, ''The Year We Disappeared'', written with her father John Busby.
Early life
Born the youngest of three children (she has two older brothers, Eric Busby and Shawn Busby), Cylin grew up in
Falmouth on
Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer mont ...
,
. In 1979, her police officer father, John Busby, was seriously injured in a shooting.
During the resulting investigation, the family was relocated and lived in hiding for five years.
Cylin and John co-wrote a memoir about the experience which went on to become a best seller, placing at #3 on the nonfiction lists for ''The Wall Street Journal''
and ''Publishers Weekly''.
The book also earned #1 best seller placement on Amazon's nonfiction list. Their memoir was featured in 2009 on the CBS television program
''48 Hours'' in an episode titled ''Live to Tell: The Year We Disappeared''
and was optioned for a motion picture in 2014.
Education and career
Cylin graduated from
Hampshire College
Hampshire College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges ...
(B.A.). Her publishing career began at Random House. She would later work at HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster as a children's book editor. In 2000, she relocated to Los Angeles where she began working as the Senior Editor of Teen Magazine. She has written more than 20 books for young readers and is published in 15 countries.
Personal
Cylin lives in Los Angeles with her family. Her latest novel is the YA thriller, ''The Stranger Game''. HarperCollins announced the publication of her next picture book, ''The White House Cat'', for January 2022.
Awards and recognition
For ''The Year We Disappeared''
* Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008
* An IndieBound Next Pick
*
Cybils Award
The Cybils Awards, or Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards, are a set of annual book awards given by people who blog about children's and young-adult books. Co-founded by Kelly Herold and Anne Boles Levy in 2006, the awards were c ...
, Nonfiction, 2008
* Georgia Peach Book Award For Teen Readers Nominee
* IRA/CC Young Adults’ Choice
* Texas Taysha Reading List (2010)
* Iowa High School Book Award (2011)
For ''Blink Once''
* Junior Library Guild Selection
* Scholastic Catalog Selection
* Nominated and Finalist: Isinglass Book Award, 2014
* Nominated and Finalist: Grand Canyon Reader Award, 2014
* Published in: US, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Germany.
For ''The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs''
* Starred review, ''Booklist''
* Starred review, ''School Library Journal''
* Amazon "Best Book of the Month" February 2016
For ''The Stranger Game''
* Junior Library Guild Selection
* Rights sold in: US, United Kingdom, Turkey, Spain, France
Works
Fiction
* ''The Chicken Fried Rat'' (1999)
* ''Blink Once'' (2012)
* ''The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs'' (2016)
* ''The Stranger Game'' (2016)
Nonfiction
* ''Getting Dumped…and Getting Over It'' (2001)
* ''Pajama Party Undercover'' (2003)
* ''Dream Journey'' (2003)
Picture Book
* ''The Bookstore Cat'' (2020) Illustrations by Charles Santoso
* ''The White House Cat'' (2022) Illustrations by Neely Daggett
Memoir
* ''The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir'', John and Cylin Busby (2008).
Series
* ''Date Him or Dump Him?'' (2007)
# ''The Campfire Crush''
# ''The Dance Dilemma''
# ''Ski Trip Trouble''
Anthology
* ''First Kiss, Then Tell'' (2008)
Short Story
* ''The Homestake Project'' (2020
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Audio book
* ''The Year We Disappeared'', John and Cylin Busby, (2012)
* ''The Stranger Game'' (2016)
Film and television
* ''48 Hours "Live to Tell: The Year We Disappeared"'' (airdate: 2/14/09)
* Optioned: ''The Year We Disappeared'' (limited series)
* In development: ''The Stranger Game'' (TV series)
Screenplay: ''Rebecca and Quinn Get Scared'' (with Nanci Katz)
* Sold to New Line Cinema. Trish Sie attached to direct. Donald DeLine producing.
* Austin Film Festival Finalist (Comedy), Semifinalist (Horror), 2017
* Script Pipeline Screenplay competition, 2017
* BlueCat Screenplay competition, 2017
Screenplay: ''Extremophile'' (sci-fi/horror)
* Finalist, The Writers Lab, 2022.
* Based on short story, ''The Homestake Project''
Screenplay: ''A Tale of Two Christmases'' (written with Nanci Katz) (Crown Media/Hallmark)
* 2022 (premiere 11/26/22 on Peacock+ and Hallmark Channel
)
Screenplay: ''Weekend to Die For'' (written with Nanci Katz)
* 2023
References
External links
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Living people
American children's writers
American magazine editors
Hampshire College alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)