Lurlene McDaniel


Lurlene McDaniel is an American author who has written more than 70 young adult books. She is well known for writing about young adults struggling with mortality and chronic illness, a career that began as a therapeutic way to deal with the trauma when her son, then 3, was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. Her characters have grappled with cancer, diabetes, organ failure, and the deaths of loved ones through disease or suicide. She is a graduate of the University of South Florida - Tampa and currently resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Research

To make her novels medically accurate, she interviews health professionals and works with various medical groups including hospices. She also studies the Bible to help infuse her work with "the human element—the values and ethics often overlooked by the coldness of technology."

Other types of work

In addition to her young adult catalog and a magazine column, she has also written for radio, television and marketing campaigns.
She is a frequent guest speaker, seen everywhere from schools to conventions.

Partial bibliography

Novels

  • For Better, For Worse, Forever
  • Heart to Heart
  • I’m a Cover Girl Now
  • More than Just a Smart Girl
  • Mother, Please Don’t Die
  • Why Did She Have To Die
  • The End of Forever
  • What’s It Like to Be a Star?
  • Where’s the Horse for Me / Three’s a Crowd
  • Always and Forever
  • Briana’s Gift
  • If I Should Die Before I Wake
  • Last dance
  • Letting Go of Lisa
  • Angel of Hope
  • Sometimes Love isn't Enough
  • Too Young to Die
  • Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever
  • Somewhere Between Life and Death
  • Time to Let Go
  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
  • When Happily Ever After Ends
  • Mourning Song
  • Baby Alicia Is Dying
  • Don't Die, My Love
  • Saving Jessica
  • I'll Be Seeing You
  • Till Death Do Us Part
  • For Better, For Worse, Forever
  • The Girl Death Left Behind
  • Starry, Starry Night: Three Holiday Stories
  • Telling Christina Goodbye
  • A Rose For Melinda
  • How Do I Love Thee: Three Stories
  • Garden of Angels
  • The Time Capsule
  • *Till Death Do Us Part and For Better, For Worse, Forever were reissued as a double novel, As Long As We Both Shall Live: Two Novels in October 2003.
  • If I Should Die Before I Wake
  • A Horse for Mandy
  • My Secret Boyfriend
  • *Too Young to Die and Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever were reissued as a double novel, Always and Forever: Two Novels in May 2004.
  • *Angels of Mercy and Angel of Hope were reissued as a double novel, Journey of Hope: Two Novels
  • Sometimes Love Isn't Enough
  • Hit and Run
  • Prey
  • All The Days Of Her Life
  • Sixteen And Dying
  • Reach for Tomorrow
  • Breathless
  • A Time to Die
  • Please Don’t Die
  • Mourning Song
  • She Died Too Young
  • Mother, Help Me Live
  • Someone Dies, Someone Lives
  • A Season for Goodbye
  • Let Him Live
  • The Legacy: Making Wishes Come True
  • ''Reaching Through Time: Three Stories''

    Trilogies

The Angels Trilogy
  • Angels Watching Over Me
  • Lifted Up By Angels
  • Until Angels Close My Eyes
  • *Reissued as The Angels Trilogy
The Angels in Pink Trilogy
  • Angels in Pink: Kathleen's Story
  • Angels in Pink: Raina's Story
  • Angels in Pink: Holly's Story
The Mercy / Journey of Hope Trilogy
  • Angel of Mercy
  • ''Angel of Hope''

    Quintets

The Dawn Rochelle Quintet
  • Six Months to Live
  • I Want to Live
  • So Much to Live For
  • No Time to Cry
  • *These first four novels were combined into an omni titled Dawn Rochelle, Four Novels
  • ''To Live Again''