About
Elle Thornton is the author of two award-winning books: Touch the Dead with the pen name E.S. Thornton, her debut mystery, was awarded a Silver Medal by the Military Writers Society of America, a Florida Writers Association Gold Medal (unpublished mystery) and was FWA’s 2nd Runner-Up Book of the Year; her first published book, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis (YA), was named by the IAP a YA regional winner (Florida), received a Bronze Medal from the MWSA and a Gold Medal (unpublished) from the FWA. Her poetry has been published in the Connecticut River Review and the Concho River Review. She has worked as a newspaper reporter in Massachusetts, Hawaii and Kansas. She was a television reporter in Hong Kong.
Featured Work
Touch the Dead
Eden Sinclair returns to the Fox Dunes Lodge on the Florida coast to search for her missing cousin Jess. But finding answers and someone to trust prove as elusive as the shadows beneath the waves. Jess and Eden both loved Johnny, and when he comes to the lodge and takes Eden in his arms, she is forced to confront a painful question: Can she even trust herself to find the truth?
Other Works
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The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
2012
Awards and Recognition
- Bronze Medal, Military Writers Society of America, YA Historical Fiction, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
- Royal Palm Literary Award First Place, Florida Writers Association, YA Historical Fiction (unpublished), The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
- Royal Palm Literary Award First Place; 2nd Runner-up Book of the Year all manuscripts, Florida Writers Association, Mystery (unpublished), Touch the Dead
- Winner of the Indie Author Project's 2021 Florida Author Project contest in the YA Fiction category, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
