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BiographyChristy Barritt has penned articles for Campus Life, Marriage Partnership, Blueridge Country, The Plain Truth, Guideposts for Teens, Brio, and The Lookout. She's the author of the Squeaky Clean Mystery Series (Kregel Publications). Hazardous Duty, the first book in the series, took third place in the ACFW Book of the Year contest. The series is about a crime-scene cleaner who also solves crimes. The second book in the series, Suspicious Minds, will hit shelves in May 2008.
Born and raised in Chesapeake, Virginia (suburbia, America), she journeyed off to college in Cincinnati where she majored in communications and psychology. She worked at a Christian publishing house for two and a half years after college. During this time she also had a short jaunt in the independent Christian music field. When family obligations called her home, she saw it as the push she needed to start writing again. The journey has been scary, she says, but it's definitely where she should be. Christy's married to Scott, a high school teacher and funny man extraordinaire. In June 2006, they added a little boy named Eli to their happy mix. They also have two dogs and a house plant named Martha. When Christy's not writing, she's also on staff part-time at Celebration Christian Church, where she leads worship each week. Find her on the web at: www.myspace.com/christybarritt www.willwrite4food.com www.faithchicks.com
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Pictured: Christy with her son, Eli Samuel Barritt.
New Book Out!
Suspicious Minds: Coming to a bookstore near you, May 2008.
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I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
~George Burns
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
~Jean Sibelius
The writer who sits at her desk with an empty piece of paper staring back is like the explorer who stands at the edge of a new continent.
~James Michener
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
~Robert Cormier