Michael J. Moorehead is the author of The Student from Zombie Island and received the 2008 Moonbeam Children’s Book Bronze Award, 2008 Glyph award, and 2008 Reader Views Annual Literary Award for Best Children’s Book when he was a 12-year-old. He wrote this story when he was 9 years old. Michael lives in Tempe, Arizona, with his mother, Lynda Exley a freelance writer and editor for the SanTan Sun News and Arizona Parentingmagazine, and his father, an insurance property adjustor, who moonlights as a movie critic for the Wrangler News. Lynda Exley is the co-author with Conrad Storad of Arizona Way Out West and Wacky. This excellent educational children’s book has been designated as an Arizona Centennial Legacy Project. The Library edition Arizona Way Out West and Witty won the One Book Arizona Kids 2012. Both editions are produced by Linda Radke owner of Five Star Publications in Chandler Arizona. The AZ WOWW team is available for school visits.
They lost their father and grandfather to Leukemia.
“When I was 11, my Grandpa died of leukemia. The disease took him away before he got to see my book published. It’s so hard to believe that people can be gone forever.”
“Even in his late 60s and early 70s my dad, who was as much my friend and hiking buddy as he was my father, was in incredible health. At 71 he was still hiking mountaintops. But at 72, he contracted leukemia – not the kind you can live with for years, but the kind that gives you only months to live. He died long before his 73rd birthday. I was stunned at how fast a normally robust and healthy man could deteriorate so quickly. There is a big hole in my life and heart now that can never be filled. I will never stop missing him.”
Michael and Lynda will participate in the WUFC Arizona Centennial Cancer Research Fundraiser at the Arizona Biltmore on February 2nd, 2012 from 6:30 pm until 9:30 pm. You can obtain your personally autographed copy of their books as well as 26 other WUFC authors at this event.
Exley and Moorehead also participated with the AZ WOWW team in the WUFC Cancer research Fundraiser at A+ Book Fairs Warehouse on December 3rd, 2011.
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