Larry M. Edwards

A scribbler by preference and profession, Larry M. Edwards is an award-winning investigative journalist, author, editor, and publishing consultant. He has written five books and has edited more than 500 fiction and nonfiction books.

As journalist he has won numerous awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the San Diego Press Club, including four Best of Show honors. As business editor for San Diego Magazine, his reporting fueled the resignation of a corrupt CEO and an ineffective San Diego mayor.

As an author, he wrote Dare I Call It Murder?—A Memoir of Violent Loss (2013), which took top honors in the San Diego Book Awards and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. It became an Amazon best-seller in Memoir and True Crime categories.

As a book editor/publisher, one of his proudest moments came when Murder Survivors Handbook: Real-Life Stories, Tips & Resources by Connie Saindon (2014) received the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association.

As a musician, he plays fiddle and bass, and has composed nearly two dozen melodies. While “stuck at home with the Pandemic blues,” he produced The Pandemic Sessions: New Tunes in the Old-time Style (mostly), a book and CD featuring the sheet music and recordings of his own compositions, including the “Billboard worthy” Got the Pandemic Blues.

He also prides himself as being a birder S.O.B. (spouse of birder). Larry lives in San Diego, California, with his wife, Janis Cadwallader, a serious birder, fellow fiddler, and world traveler.

Other books by Larry M. Edwards

~ Dare I Call It Murder?: A Memoir of Violent Loss — Winner, Best Published Memoir, San Diego Book Awards, and Pulitzer Prize nominee

~ Food & Provisions of the Mountain Men: A Guide to Authentic Provisions of Fur Trappers, Traders & Explorers in the Early American West

~ The Pandemic Sessions: New Tunes in the Old-time Style (mostly)

~ Official Netscape Internet Business Starter Kit

A selection of books edited by Larry M. Edwards:

Fiction

~ The A.J. Hawke Legal Thriller series by Donald E. McInnis, including Return of the Sphynx, BookLife Editor’s Pick

~ The Fourth Rising, Martin Roy Hill, Winner, Best Mystery, Best Indie Book Awards

~ Camp Salvador, M.L. Meurs

Nonfiction

~ Murder Survivor’s Handbook: Real-Life Stories, Tips & Resources, Connie Saindon, Winner, Gold Award, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Awards

~ The Journey: Learning to Live with Violent Death, Connie Saindon

~ She’s So Cold: The Stephanie Crowe Murder Case—A Defense Attorney's Inside Story, Donald E. McInnis

~ What the Private Saw: The Civil War Letters & Diaries of Oney Foster Sweet, annotated by Larry M. Edwards

~ They Must Be Monsters, the untold story of the McMartin Preschool scandal, Matthew LeRoy and Deric Haddad

~ Outlasting the Nazis and Communists: My Life in Vienna & Prague, Paul Vantoch