Elizabeth Sims

Elizabeth Sims is the author of the Rita Farmer Mysteries and the Lambda and GCLS Goldie Award-winning Lillian Byrd Crime Series, as well as other fiction. She’s been published by presses large and small, and she’s written short works for numerous publications. She publishes independently under her personal imprint, Spruce Park Press. Her most recent book is Down to the D: Bambi Pentecost Crime Novel #1.

Elizabeth has written scores of feature articles for Writer's Digest magazine. If you’re a writer too, you might find inspiration in her lively, practical book, You've Got a Book in You: A Stress-Free Guide to Writing the Book of Your Dreams (Writer's Digest Books).

Elizabeth’s degrees are from Michigan State University and Wayne State University, where she won the Tompkins Award for graduate fiction. She's worked as a reporter, photographer, technical writer, bookseller, street busker, ranch hand, corporate executive, certified lifeguard, and (currently) symphonic percussionist. She belongs to several literary societies as well as American Mensa.