Novelist Stephanie Osborn


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      A Review in the NY Times!

      NYTimes: This Week at Mobile Tech Manor
      http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2009/05/22/22gigaom-this-week-at-mobile-tech-manor-40--e-books-and-id-10572.html

            The Y Factor, by Darrell Bain and Stephanie Osborn

      Burnout: The mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281 by Stephanie Osborn, Finalist, Best First Novel

      Announcements!

        BURNOUT: THE MYSTERY OF SPACE SHUTTLE STS-281 has been nominated as a finalist in the Best First Novel category for the 2010 Thriller Awards!

        The Cresperian Alliance, Book 3 of the Cresperia Series, is now available in ebook!
        You can find it at Omnilit at a 20% discount until Valentine's Day!
        The tentative publication date for the trade paperback version is July 15, 2010.

        The Y Factor, Book 2 of the Cresperia Series, is now available in print from Amazon and Barnes-Noble!

        The Y Factor, Book 2 of the Cresperia Series, is an EPIC Award finalist!

        Burnout Items Now Available at Cafe Press! See button, "Steph's Cool Stuff,"
        or link, "The Doctor's Lab at Cafe Press" for items from Stephanie Osborn's
        books and Mad Doc Osborn's World Domination campaign!
        More coming soon!

      Press Releases

      Reminder of Stephanie Osborn's Upcoming Appearances!

        Imagicopter stop: Nashville, TN Davis-Kidd Booksellers, 2:00pm, Saturday, 6 Feb 10

        MidSouthCon, Memphis, TN, 12-14 March 2010





        The author and colleague Les Johnson at Barnes-Noble, Bridge Street, Huntsville, AL December 2009

      Awards and Nominations

        Burnout: The mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281 nominated for:
          USA Book of the Year, Mystery/Suspense and Science Fiction
          Foreword Book of the Year
          Philip K. Dick Award
          Compton Crook Award
          EPPIE Award
          International Thriller Writers Best First Novel Award
          Darrell Award

        Burnout: The mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281 is a finalist:

          International Thriller Writers Best First Novel Award

        Burnout: The mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281 is a winner:

          Preditors & Editors Readers' Poll - Best SF novel, 7th Place
          Preditors & Editors Readers' Poll - Best Cover Art by Darrell Osborn, 11th Place

        The Y Factor nominated for:

          EPIC Award

        The Y Factor is a finalist:

          EPIC Award Finalist

        The Y Factor is a winner:

          Preditors & Editors Readers' Poll - Best Cover Art by Darrell Osborn, 3rd Place

        What People Are Saying About Burnout

        Stephanie's Bio

          Novelist Stephanie Osborn is a former payload flight controller, a veteran of over
          twenty years of working in the civilian space program, as well as various
          military space defense programs.

          Stephanie holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences:
          Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, and she is "fluent" in
          several more, including Geology and Anatomy. She obtained her various
          degrees from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN and
          Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

          Stephanie Osborn has worked on numerous Space Shuttle flights and the
          International Space Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her resume.
          Of those astronauts she trained, one was Kalpana Chawla, or "K.C.," a member
          of the crew lost in the Columbia disaster.

          The last crew of Shuttle Columbia. KC is in the center, holding the logo.
          Image from ClassroomClipart.com

          Stephanie is currently retired from space work. She now happily "passes it
          forward," tutoring math and science to students in the Huntsville area, from
          elementary through college, while writing science fiction mysteries based
          on her knowledge, experience, and travels.

          Shuttle launch and ascent, just prior to SRB Sep.
          Image by S. Osborn

        Stephanie's Books and Projects

          One of her current science fiction mysteries (in e-book and trade paperback
          formats) by Twilight Times Books is Burnout, a techno-thriller about a Space Shuttle
          disaster that turns out to be no accident. As the true scope of the conspiracy is
          gradually uncovered by the principal investigators, "Crash" Murphy and
          Dr. Mike Anders, they find themselves running for their lives, as lovers, friends
          and coworkers involved in the investigation perish around them. What
          happened to the Shuttle? Who is responsible for the disaster and why?
          Why is the government calling it an accident? Why is someone willing to kill
          to keep it a secret? And how big is the conspiracy? An exciting action
          techno-thriller, Burnout will leave you on the edge of your seat, not wanting
          to put it down. Burnout has been in Fictionwise's SF Top 25. To date, it has
          been nominated for eight awards in four separate genres (e-book, science
          fiction, mystery, and thriller).

          Also recently released as an e-book and trade paperback just in time for
          the Holidays, is EPPIE finalist The Y Factor, coauthored with Darrell Bain,
          multiple EPPIE Award winner. It is the next novel in the Cresperian science
          fiction series. Osborn's mentor, Travis "Doc" Taylor, and Bain co-authored
          the first novel of the series, the Dream Realm Award winning Human By Choice,
          published by Twilight Times Books. The Cresperians are an alien race whose starship
          wrecks in our solar system, with some of the lifepods landing scattered
          around Earth. The series tells of the new "space race" that ensues as various
          nations vie for the Cresperians and their technology. The Y Factor is a Fictionwise
          best-seller.

          Stephanie is maintaining her collaboration with Darrell Bain, and they
          recently completed the third book in the Cresperian science fiction series,
          titled The Cresperian Alliance, was just released in e-book format in January
          2010 and will be in print Summer 2010. A fourth, and possibly fifth, book
          is anticipated in the series.

          In addition, Stephanie is thrilled to be collaborating with her mentor,
          Travis S. "Doc" Taylor, on the first in what we hope will be a series of books.
          The first book is Extraction Point!, another action packed science fiction
          mystery, definitely a techno-thriller read.

          She also has four manuscripts complete on her own science fiction mystery
          series, the Displaced Detective Series, regarding the discovery of alternate
          universes, and the commotion which ensues when the inhabitant of one universe
          inadvertently crosses into our own. This series is in the hands of her agents
          at Sullivan-Maxx Literary Agency for placement.

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