Summary: Annette Lyon has been writing ever since second grade, when she piled pillows on a chair to reach her mother’s typewriter. A cum laude graduate from BYU with a degree in English, she has had success as a professional editor and doing newspaper, magazine, and business writing, but her first love is writing fiction. She’s perhaps best known for her historical novels centered around the four old Utah temples.<br> Her most recent novel, Band of Sisters: Coming Home (January 2013) is the sequel to the Whitney Award-winning novel Band of Sisters.<br> One of the most rewarding parts of Annette’s writing career has been collaborating on The Newport Ladies Book Club series. Her first book in the series, Paige, was released in 2012. Her second, about the character Ilana, will be released early 2014.<br> Annette has won Utah’s Best of State medal for literary arts in fiction two times. In addition to being a Whitney Award winner for Band of Sisters (2010), she’s a two-time Whitney finalist, for Spires of Stone (2007) and Paige (2012). She has received five publication awards from the League of Utah Writers, including the Silver Quill Award in 2013.<br> When she’s not mothering, writing, editing, knitting, or eating chocolate, she can be found ignoring the spots on the kitchen floor. Her latest individual work is A Portrait for Toni.<br> Please visit <a title="Annette Lyon's official website." href="http://www.annettelyon.com" target="_blank">http://www.annettelyon.com</a> to purchase her various titles.<br>
