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- About CJHi there! Welcome to my virtual home! I’m CJ Lyons, pediatric ER doc turned suspense/thriller author. My agent wants me to change that to “award-winning, critically-acclaimed, national bestselling author”, but I’m not that kind of girl, especially not when we’re just getting to know each other. (but, if you want the official bio–especially if you’re a reporter, feel free to read it here, it includes all those awards and adventures and accolades and makes it sound like I’m a really important person and you should absolutely give me a shout about doing a feature or asking me to speak at your conference or getting together for an interview…) I grew up in the mountains of central Pennsylvania, the heart of the rust belt, and lived there until I left home at 17 to go to college in North Carolina. Then it was on to Florida for med school and back to Pennsylvania for my pediatric residency at Childrens’ Hospital of Pittsburgh. That’s when everything changed. You see, I’ve always been a story-teller. When I was young it made for a lot of time spent in time-outs because I had a hard time telling the difference between fiction and reality. It…
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- ExtrasHere are a few extra tidbits for readers. Enjoy! A great interview that Lisa Davis of the “It’s Your Health” radio show did with me. CJ’s Rules to Emergency Medicine WARNING SIGNS: The Medical Facts and Fiction CJ’s Adventures in Research I love doing research for my books. You can learn a lot from reading, but to really get the behind the scenes story you need to talk to people, go places. Here are the highlights from some of my recent research trips. CJ at the FBI Academy at Quantico CJ takes a dive into a hyperbaric chamber! CJ and Pittsburgh’s river rescue You might also be interested in: {list}
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