Meet the Author

Speculative Fiction Writer

Novels Short Stories

Meet the Author

Speculative Fiction Writer

Novels Short Stories

About the Author

Hi! I’m Lyn.

Ready for Your Next Reading Adventure?

About the Author

Hi! I’m Lyn.

Ready for Your Next Reading Adventure?

I wish I could say, “I began reading at age four and by the time I was six, I was writing short stories.”

But…I wasn’t always a writer, not even close.

I don’t even remember writing an essay until college. So, when my first and only college English professor made us write a 250- word essay, my dormant writing ability was put to the test.

Despite all my squirming, fidgeting and fingernail biting, my writing hand refused to move and a blank page stared back at me. What’s more, comfort food beckoned and the dorm’s vending machine began calling my name.

(Continues here from home page)

Relenting, I scarfed down the first ice-cream sandwich but ate the next two more slowly, letting the chocolate work its magic. However, serotonin can only do so much for you and inspiration remained a stranger. The blank page lingered in front of me. In a fit of desperation, I scrutinized the ice cream wrapper and found my topic. Detailing more than you’d ever want to know about ice-cream sandwiches, I started and finished the essay.

Admittedly, this was not my finest writing moment.

Even so, an enchantment with words had captured my heart, although not so much in English, and I got a degree in foreign languages, majoring in Spanish and Portuguese. Years later I looked up the definitions of little words, words like “the,” “of,” “for” and “in.” Somewhere during this word defining adventure, inspiration tapped me on the shoulder and for a brief time, poems and short stories poured out of me.

For the past 20 years, I’ve worked as a freelance copywriter and flexed my wordcrafting muscles. Also during this time, life has dealt me some tough challenges, and creative writing became cathartic. After a writer friend encouraged me, I wrote a rough draft for a novel, and deluged with ideas, I had more than would ever fit into one book, so my novel turned into a trilogy, which is available on Amazon.

Genres? Speculative Fiction. I love writing in the paranormal, Sci-Fi / Fantasy, dystopian, and apocalyptic genres. I also enjoy weaving romantic subplots into my stories. Certain ideas form a driving message that pervades my writing: stories where other universes abound and where my characters rise like phoenixes from the ashes. I love stories where the “better angels of our nature” find their time of awakening.

And I enjoy sharing these ideas with readers who also like that kind of story.

(“Better angels of our nature” is a phrase that Abraham Lincoln used in his first inaugural address. The full quote is: “The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”)

I wish I could say, “I began reading at age four and by the time I was six, I was writing short stories.”

But…I wasn’t always a writer, not even close.

Schools tested with multiple-choice questions while I was growing up, and I don’t even remember writing an essay until college. So, when my first and only college English professor made us write a 250- word essay, my dormant writing ability was put to the test.

Despite all my squirming, fidgeting and fingernail biting, my writing hand refused to move and a blank page stared back at me. What’s more, comfort food beckoned and the dorm’s vending machine began calling my name.

Relenting, I scarfed down the first ice-cream sandwich but ate the next two more slowly, letting chocolate work its magic. However, serotonin can only do so much for you. Inspiration remained a stranger and the blank page lingered in front of me. In a fit of desperation, I scrutinized the ice cream wrapper and found my topic. Detailing more than you’d ever want to know about ice-cream sandwiches, I started and finished the essay.

Admittedly, this was not my finest writing moment.

(Continued from home page here.)

Relenting, I scarfed down the first ice-cream sandwich but ate the next two more slowly, letting the the chocolate work its magic. However, serotonin can only do so much for you, and inspiration remained a stranger. The blank page lingered in front of me. In a fit of desperation, I scrutinized the ice cream wrapper and found my topic. Detailing more than you’d ever want to know about ice-cream sandwiches, I started and finished the essay.

Admittedly, this was not my finest writing moment.

Even so, an enchantment with words had captured my heart, although not so much in English, and I got a degree in foreign languages, majoring in Spanish and Portuguese. Years later I looked up the definitions of little words, words like “the,” “of,” “for” and “in.” Somewhere during this word defining adventure, inspiration tapped me on the shoulder and for a brief time, poems and short stories poured out of me.

For the past 15 years, I’ve worked as a freelance copywriter and flexed my word crafting muscles. Also during this time, life has dealt me some tough challenges, and creative writing became cathartic. After a writer friend encouraged me, I wrote a rough draft for a novel, and deluged with ideas, I had more than would ever fit into one book, so my novel turned into a trilogy, which I’m still working on.

Genres? Speculative Fiction. I love writing in the paranormal, Sci-Fi / Fantasy, dystopian, and apocalyptic genres. I also enjoy weaving romantic subplots into my stories. Certain ideas form a driving message that pervades my writing: stories where other universes abound and where my characters rise like phoenixes from the ashes. I love stories where the “better angels of our nature” find their time of awakening.

And I enjoy sharing these ideas with readers who also like that kind of story.

(“Better angels of our nature” is a phrase that Abraham Lincoln used in his first inaugural address. The full quote is: “The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”)