Freelance Writer/Children's Book Author
My Stories
I have more than 20-years experience as a newspaper reporter and television producer. My specialty is consumer and investigative reporting, but I also write feature stories for the adult and children markets. 

I have won numerous awards during my career, including two Emmy’s and the I.R.E. Medal for outstanding investigative reporting. I also worked for five years as an Economic Crime Investigator for the Johnson County, Kansas, District Attorney’s Office.

I now freelance fulltime and my stories have appeared The Kansas City Star, Dogs For Kids, My Family Doctor, F1rstpages.com, and the consumer news Web site, ConsumerAffairs.com.

My Children's Books
I’m also a children’s book author and have written twelve non-fiction books for Scholastic and Capstone Press.
    Michael Jordan 
   A Rookie Reader
 Lewis and Clark
A Rookie Reader
       Marie Curie
   A Rookie Reader
Ghosts: The Unsolved Mystery
Bigfoot: The Unsolved Mystery
Near-Death Experiences: The Unsolved Mystery
“Lisa McCormick has done a wonderful thing by introducing children to the near death experience. This is a very good, easy book for children to read and she has done a great job explaining a complex subject in a way that children can understand it. ”

-Jody Long of the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF)


“An absolutely perfect haunted house book for an elementary school library. The pictures are spooky without being horrifying and the text is mysterious and provocative but not nightmarish. I liked it so much that I bought it for my school library. This book was a big hit with the group of children who looked at it…They all wanted to check it out.”

-Debbie Nance, Librarian
Texas

What people are saying about my books...
Haunted Houses: The Unsolved Mystery
Nominated for 2009 Cybils, the Children's & Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards

Mothman: The Unsolved Mystery

Psychic Powers: The Unsolved Mystery

Alien Abductions: The Unsolved Mystery