Cylin Busby

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050926/NEWS01/309269956 |access-date=June 15, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020102115/http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20050926%2FNEWS01%2F309269956 |archive-date=October 20, 2014 }} During the resulting investigation, the family was relocated and lived in hiding for five years.{{cite news|last1=Pearsall|first1=Samantha|title=The Never-ending Reine Saga|url=https://www.capecodtoday.com/article/2009/04/10/12692-Never-ending-Reine-Saga|access-date=November 10, 2015|publisher=Cape Cod Times|date=April 10, 2009}}{{cite news|last1=Gately|first1=Paul|title=Bourne seen as safe site for Falmouth crime victim|url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/article/20080911/NEWS/309119313|access-date=November 10, 2015|publisher=Bourne Courier|date=September 11, 2008}} 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{{cite web|last=Associated |first=The |url=http://pages.citebite.com/w3o3b6a6s3iyf |title=WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS – Washington Times |website=Pages.citebite.com |date=March 13, 2014 |access-date=February 23, 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/13/wall-street-journal-best-sellers/?page=all |title=Wall Street Journal Best-Sellers |newspaper=The Washington Times |access-date=February 23, 2016}} and Publishers Weekly.{{cite web|url=http://pages.citebite.com/h3u3l6i6i4rva |title=Publishers Weekly Best-Sellers – Las Vegas Sun News |website=Pages.citebite.com |date=June 15, 2014 |access-date=February 23, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2014/mar/13/publishers-weekly-best-sellers |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140615165544/http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2014/mar/13/publishers-weekly-best-sellers |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 15, 2014 |access-date=June 15, 2014 |title=PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS - Las Vegas Sun News }} 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{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/live-to-tell-the-year-we-disappeared-14-02-2009 |title=Live To Tell: The Year We Disappeared |work=CBS News |date=February 14, 2009 |access-date=February 23, 2016}} and was optioned for a motion picture in 2014.

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.

Cylin lives in Los Angeles with her family. Her latest novel is the YA thriller, The Stranger Game.{{cite book |title=Amazon |isbn=978-0062354600 |last1=Busby |first1=Cylin |date=October 25, 2016 |publisher=HarperCollins }} HarperCollins announced the publication of her next picture book, The White House Cat, for January 2022.{{cite web |title=HarperCollins |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062894342/the-bookstore-cat/ |website=HarperCollins}}

In 2022, Cylin had an unexpected encounter with P-22, a famous mountain lion from Griffith Park in Los Angeles, who showed up on her front porch.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/12/remembering-p-22-celebrity-mountain-lion-who-roamed-los-angeles |title=Remembering P-22, the Celebrity Mountain Lion Who Roamed Los Angeles |last=Jarvey |first=Natalie |date=20 December 2022 |magazine=Vanity Fair |access-date=29 July 2024}}

For The Year We Disappeared

• Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008{{cite web|url=http://pages.citebite.com/d3n3w6e6a5ufr |title=Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2008 |website=Pages.citebite.com |date=November 3, 2008 |access-date=February 23, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20081103/11419-pw-s-best-books-of-the-year.html |title=Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2008 |website=Publishersweekly.com |date=November 3, 2008 |access-date=February 23, 2016}}
• An IndieBound Next Pick
• Cybils Award, Nonfiction, 2008{{cite web|url=http://dadtalk.typepad.com/cybils/2009/02/2009-cybils-winners.html |title=Cybils: The 2008 Cybils Winners |website=Dadtalk.typepad.com |date=February 14, 2009 |access-date=February 23, 2016}}
• 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

• The Chicken Fried Rat (1999)
• Blink Once (2012)
• The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs (2016)
• The Stranger Game (2016)

• Getting Dumped…and Getting Over It (2001)
• Pajama Party Undercover (2003)
• Dream Journey (2003)

• The Bookstore Cat (2020) Illustrations by Charles Santoso
• The White House Cat (2022) Illustrations by Neely Daggett {{cite web |title=HarperCollins |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-white-house-cat-cylin-busby?variant=39314593480738 |website=HarperCollins}}

• The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir, John and Cylin Busby (2008).{{cite news|last1=Hassett|first1=Bob|title=Great YA biographies your kids (and face it: you) will like to read|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/02/13/great-ya-biographies-your-kids-and-face-it-you-will-like-to-read/|access-date=November 10, 2015|newspaper=Washington Post|date=February 13, 2015}}{{cite news|last1=Szmit|first1=Kathleen|title=The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir|url=http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/home2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15634&Itemid=62|access-date=November 10, 2015|publisher=The Barnstable Patriot|date=July 31, 2008}}{{cite news|last1=Hawk|first1=Fran|title=Book chronicles a family's ordeal (book review)|publisher=The Post and Courier|date=June 22, 2009}}{{cite news|last1=Curry|first1=Maureen|title=Books to lift you up|publisher=The Morning Star|date=June 17, 2012}}

• Date Him or Dump Him? (2007)

1. The Campfire Crush
2. The Dance Dilemma
3. Ski Trip Trouble

• First Kiss, Then Tell (2008){{cite news|last1=Green|first1=Judy|title=A peek at some private memories (book review)|agency=McClatchy|publisher=Sacramento Bee|date=March 9, 2008}}

• The Homestake Project (2020) [https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction]

• The Year We Disappeared, John and Cylin Busby, (2012)
• The Stranger Game (2016)

• 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/pitch-perfect-3-director-tackling-female-horror-comedy-1176606|website=The Hollywood Reporter |title='Pitch Perfect 3' Director Tackling Female Horror Comedy for New Line (Exclusive) |date=January 16, 2019 }} Trish Sie attached to direct.Trish Sie{{Circular reference|date=July 2019}} Donald DeLine producing.Donald De Line{{Circular reference|date=July 2019}}
• Austin Film Festival Finalist (Comedy), Semifinalist (Horror), 2017[https://austinfilmfestival.com/submit/screenplay-and-teleplay-submissions-2/2017-script-competition-semifinalists-second-rounders/ 2017 SCRIPT COMPETITION SEMIFINALISTS & SECOND ROUNDERS]. Austin Film Festival. Retrieved on February 18, 2020.
• Script Pipeline Screenplay competition, 2017
• BlueCat Screenplay competition, 2017

Screenplay: Extremophile (sci-fi/horror)

• Finalist, The Writers Lab.{{cite web |url=https://writers.coverfly.com/profile/writer-138e68982-68392#accolades |title=Cylin Busby |publisher=Coverfly |access-date=2021-11-10}}
• 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{{Cite web |last1=September 26 |first1=Dan Snierson Updated |last2=EDT |first2=2022 at 02:49 PM |title=Here's when all 40 new Hallmark Christmas movies will air — plus your first look at 20 of them |url=https://ew.com/tv/hallmark-christmas-movie-schedule-2022/ |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=EW.com |language=en}})

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

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