Cylin Busby

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.

Cylin Busby
Busby in 2020
Busby in 2020
BornFalmouth, Massachusetts, USA
OccupationWriter, editor
NationalityAmerican
Period1990s-present
GenreYoung Adult fiction, memoir, supernatural fiction, thriller
Website
cylinbusby.com

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, Massachusetts. In 1979, her police officer father, John Busby, was seriously injured in a shooting.[1] During the resulting investigation, the family was relocated and lived in hiding for five years.[2][3] 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[4][5] and Publishers Weekly.[6][7] 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[8] and was optioned for a motion picture in 2014.

Education and career

Cylin graduated from Hampshire College (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.[9] HarperCollins announced the publication of her next picture book, The White House Cat, for January 2022.[10]

Awards and recognition

For The Year We Disappeared

  • Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008[11][12]
  • An IndieBound Next Pick
  • Cybils Award, Nonfiction, 2008[13]
  • 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 [14]
  • The White House Cat (2022) Illustrations by Neely Daggett [15]

Memoir
  • The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir, John and Cylin Busby (2008).[16][17][18][19]

Series
  • Date Him or Dump Him? (2007)
  1. The Campfire Crush
  2. The Dance Dilemma
  3. Ski Trip Trouble

Anthology
  • First Kiss, Then Tell (2008)[20]

Short Story

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.[21] Trish Sie attached to direct.[22] Donald DeLine producing.[23]
  • Austin Film Festival Finalist (Comedy), Semifinalist (Horror), 2017[24]
  • Script Pipeline Screenplay competition, 2017
  • BlueCat Screenplay competition, 2017

Screenplay: Extremophile (sci-fi/horror)

  • Finalist, The Writers Lab, 2022.[25]
  • 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[26])

Screenplay: Weekend to Die For (written with Nanci Katz)

  • 2023


References
  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20141020102115/http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20050926%2FNEWS01%2F309269956. Archived from the original on October 20, 2014. Retrieved June 15, 2014. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. Pearsall, Samantha (April 10, 2009). "The Never-ending Reine Saga". Cape Cod Times. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  3. Gately, Paul (September 11, 2008). "Bourne seen as safe site for Falmouth crime victim". Bourne Courier. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  4. Associated, The (March 13, 2014). "WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS – Washington Times". Pages.citebite.com. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  5. "Wall Street Journal Best-Sellers". The Washington Times. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  6. "Publishers Weekly Best-Sellers – Las Vegas Sun News". Pages.citebite.com. June 15, 2014. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  7. "PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS - Las Vegas Sun News". Archived from the original on June 15, 2014. Retrieved June 15, 2014.
  8. "Live To Tell: The Year We Disappeared". CBS News. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  9. Busby, Cylin (October 25, 2016). Amazon. ISBN 978-0062354600.
  10. "HarperCollins". HarperCollins.
  11. "Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2008". Pages.citebite.com. November 3, 2008. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  12. "Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2008". Publishersweekly.com. November 3, 2008. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  13. "Cybils: The 2008 Cybils Winners". Dadtalk.typepad.com. February 14, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  14. "HarperCollins". HarperCollins.
  15. "HarperCollins". HarperCollins.
  16. Hassett, Bob (February 13, 2015). "Great YA biographies your kids (and face it: you) will like to read". Washington Post. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  17. Szmit, Kathleen (July 31, 2008). "The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir". The Barnstable Patriot. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  18. Hawk, Fran (June 22, 2009). "Book chronicles a family's ordeal (book review)". The Post and Courier.
  19. Curry, Maureen (June 17, 2012). "Books to lift you up". The Morning Star.
  20. Green, Judy (March 9, 2008). "A peek at some private memories (book review)". Sacramento Bee. McClatchy.
  21. "'Pitch Perfect 3' Director Tackling Female Horror Comedy for New Line (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. January 16, 2019.
  22. Trish Sie
  23. Donald De Line
  24. 2017 SCRIPT COMPETITION SEMIFINALISTS & SECOND ROUNDERS. Austin Film Festival. Retrieved on February 18, 2020.
  25. "Cylin Busby". Coverfly. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  26. September 26, Dan Snierson Updated; EDT, 2022 at 02:49 PM. "Here's when all 40 new Hallmark Christmas movies will air — plus your first look at 20 of them". EW.com. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
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