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Lynda Exley  

Lynda Exley is the co-author of the educational children’s book Arizona Way Out West and Wacky, with Conrad Storad.

Lynda Exley is the co-author of the educational children’s book Arizona Way Out West and Wacky, with Conrad Storad. An independent writer/editor since 1995, Lynda Exley is currently the editor for the San Tan Sun News; editor, writer and publicist for Five Star Publications; and an editor for Arizona Parenting. She is also a former editor for Houston Parent, writer for LA Parent and associated editor for Awatukee Monthly among other publications. An Arizona Press Women member since 1997, Exley has to her credit more than 50 national and state awards for editing and writing. She is the recipient of Arizona Newspaper Association’s “Best Entry Outstanding Writing” award, a three-time National Federal of Press Women Communications Contest winner for writing and editing, and has garnered more than a dozen first-place wins in the Arizona Press Women’s Communications Contest. The co-founder of KidsCanPublish.com, Exley is also a public speaker on the topics of writing, publishing, public relations and Arizona history for both adults and children in grades one through eight. She has spoken to thousands of students in just the past few years. She lives in Tempe, Ariz., with her husband, Mark Moorehead, and son, Michael Moorehead, who had his children’s book, The Student From Zombie Island: Conquering the Rumor Monster, published at age 11. The acorn certainly doesn’t fall far from the tree in her family! Lynda lost her father to Leukemia. “Even in his late 60s and early 70s my dad, who was as much my friend and hiking buddy as he was my father, was in incredible health. At 71 he was still hiking mountaintops. But at 72, he contracted leukemia – not the kind you can live with for years, but the kind that gives you only months to live. He died long before his 73rd birthday. I was stunned at how fast a normally robust and healthy man could deteriorate so quickly. There is a big hole in my life and heart now that can never be filled. I will never stop missing him.”

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