Megan Edwards

Megan Frances Edwards (born December 17, 1952) is an American writer and editor.

Megan Edwards

Edwards was born in Great Lakes, Illinois, near North Chicago. She graduated with a BA from Scripps College in classics and an MA in education from Claremont Graduate University, after which she worked in Germany, Greece, California, Texas, and Nevada, as a teacher and also a school principal. She was also a columnist (1993–1998) for the Pasadena Weekly and a contributing writer (2000–2001) for the Las Vegas Weekly.

On October 27, 1993, the house where she and her husband lived in California burned down in a wildfire, destroying nearly all their possessions. Instead of rebuilding, they bought a custom motorhome, named it "Phoenix One" and began a road trip that lasted six years. During this time the couple pioneered the (then difficult) art of connecting to the Internet while traveling.[1][2] One result was "RoadTrip America", a web resource started in 1996 for touring in North America.

The first four years of her adventures in Phoenix One are recorded in the book Roads from the Ashes.[3] In general, the book was well received.[4][5][6][7][8][9] On the 20th anniversary of the original publication, an ebook version with photos from the journey was published in 2018.[10]

In 2008 a collection titled Caution: Funny Signs Ahead was published. The book contains pictures of actual signs that are humorous due to juxtapositions, misspellings, double entendres, etc., and which were originally published online at RoadTripAmerica.com.[11]

In 2010 Edwards contributed a short story to The Perpetual Engine of Hope, an anthology featuring stories written by seven Las Vegas writers.[12] She became a contributing writer for Nevada Public Radio's Desert Companion magazine in 2012.

In 2014 Edwards contributed a short essay to Nevada: 150 Years in the Silver State from Geoff Schumacher (editor) with Stephens Press.[13]

In 2017 Edwards debut novel, titled Getting off on Frank Sinatra: A Copper Black Mystery, was published by Imbrifex Books in March 2017. In general, the book was well received.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

In 2018 Edwards’s novel Getting off on Frank Sinatra was the Gold winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best First Novel.[24] It was also a Bronze winner for the 2017 Foreword INDIES[25] and a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.[26] Her novel Strings was a Gold winner for the Benjamin Franklin Award for Romance,[27] and it also received Honorable Mentions in the 2017 Foreword INDIES,[28] as well as the Reviewers Choice Award for Romance, Music & Arts. Full Service Blonde was the 2017 INDIES Honorable Mention winner for Mystery.[29] Edwards’s novel Full Service Blonde was the Gold winner for the Benjamin Franklin Award for Mystery.[30]

Other books by Edwards published by Imbrifex Books include: Strings: A Love Story, September 2017[31] and Full Service Blonde: A Copper Black Mystery, November, 2017.[32] Each were very well received.[33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]

Edwards also contributed a short story to Live Through This: An Anthology of Unnatural Disasters, an anthology featuring stories written by eleven Las Vegas writers and Geoff Schumacher (Editor) at Huntington Press in 2018.[44]