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Lindsay McKenna is a pseudonym of multiple-award winning writer Eileen Nauman.
She has had 75 books published under the McKenna name since 1981, most dealing with military or mercenary subjects, for several publishers: Simon and Schuster, Warner, Avon and Berkely, Harlequin/Silhouette. Another 20 books have been published by the writer Eileen Nauman, under Nauman’s name or other pseudonyms, for a total of 70 fiction books.
She has sold 10 million books worldwide.
She is known as the “Top Gun of Women’s Military Fiction.”
Morgan’s Mercenaries: Heart of the Warrior, placed #103 on the USA Today book list and #2 on the Waldenbooks bestseller’s list in August 2000.
Valkyrie will be her first electronic/print-on-demand book, set for release December 1.
She is the first best-selling author of women’s fiction to release a new book (Valkyrie) exclusively through an electronic medium.
McKenna originated the military adventure/romance genre in 1983 with Captive of Fate (Silhouette Special Edition/Simon and Schuster/Silhouette).

Romantic Times Award for Best Electronic Book for 2000 with Valkyrie.
She was nominated for “StoryTeller of the Year” at the prestigious “Romantic Times Career Achievement and Reviewers Choice Awards” in Houston, Texas November 9, 2000.
She is the only Women’s Military Fiction writer to sign autographs in the Pentagon bookstore.
She has three books under movie option contract and being pitched to Hollywood moguls: Valkyrie, Beginnings (MayDay), and Code of Silence.
McKenna has marketed her military adventure/romance books heavily in the burgeoning romance market, to great success. As a result, her awards include the following:

Romantic Times Career Achievement for Best Series Romantic Adventure, 1990-1991
Romantic Times Awards Best Military Romance Author, 1989-1990
Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards for Historical Romances 1987-1988, “Hostage Heart.”
Romantic Times Magazine award, Best Continuing Romance Series, 1986-1987
Romantic Times Magazine, Best Harlequin Temptation, “Touch the Heavens,” November 1985
Romantic Times Magazine, Most Innovative Author, 1984

She was a student pilot at 17 years old and had 35 hours upon high school graduation and joining the U.S. Navy.
McKenna served in the U.S. Navy, 1964-1967, and was an AG3, Aerographer’s Mate Third Class (meteorologist).
She comes from a U.S. Navy family tradition, and, as a result, has strong, positive patriotic feelings for the United States. Her father served during World War II on three different destroyers in the Pacific Theater of War.

She took high-altitude hyperbaric chamber training at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio in order to fly in Air Force military planes (B-52 and T-38).
McKenna has flown an Air Force T-38 “chase plane” at Edwards Air Force Base, California to research a novel that featured test pilots. She has also flown two missions in an Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 bomber out of K.I. Sawyer, Air Force Base, Michigan. And, she flew a 12-hour day mission and a five-hour night mission for research on a B-52 novel.
McKenna flew in a Falcon Coast Guard Jet out of the Coast Guard Miami Air Station, Florida for research on a novel. She flew in several search-and-rescue helicopters and training missions out of the Coast Guard Port Angeles, Washington during a seven-day interview and research for a book.

She served as a volunteer firefighter from 1981-1983 with the West Point Volunteer Fire Department, West Point, Ohio. She pioneered women as firefighters and served with twenty male volunteers.
She was registered as an Emergency Medical Technician-Basic in Arizona for many years.