Jaden Terrell

Jaden Terrell is a Shamus Award finalist and the internationally published author of the Nashville-based Jared McKean private detective series.

Terrell is the winner of the 2017 Killer Nashville Builder Award, the 2017 Golden Quill Award for service to the Southeast Chapter of Mystery Writers of America (SEMWA), and the 2009 Magnolia Award, also for SEMWA service. She's a member of MWA, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, and Private Eye Writers of America.

While researching her novels, she attended the Metro Nashville Citizen Police Academy, the FBI Citizen Academy, the TBI Citizen Academy, and Lee Lofland's Writers' Police Academy. She was a pretty fair shot with a sniper rifle, but was hopeless at lifting fingerprints.

A former special education teacher, Terrell has a red belt in Tae Kwan Do, a certification in equine massage therapy, and a passion for ballroom dancing. When not writing, Terrell is a writing coach who leads in-person and online courses and workshops on the craft and business of writing fiction.