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SUMMER 2023
FIND GREAT BOOKS AT GREAT PRICES!
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The SMASHWORDS SUMMER SALE is going on NOW! I’m excited to announce that my book, My Book Title, will be available as part of a promotion on Smashwords for the month of July as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! This is a chance to get my book, along with books from many other great authors, at a discount so you can get right to reading.

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You will find the promo here starting on July 1, so save the link: https://smashwords.com/shelves/promos

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Happy reading!

2020
Holy Crap! Or, when life imitates art.

As mentioned in my last post from ancient times (about a year ago), I'd been working on the final book in the Chupacabra Trilogy, "Ye Goddess! The Tail's End." I'll admit, I was struggling. I've scrubbed 6 attempts at completing the story, and despite having thoroughly mapped it out in my outlining, graphing, and time-lining process (you can read about that here and here), the story on paper wasn't capturing what I envision. I wasn't satisfied with just getting to the end to wrap things up, so I scrapped it. Time and time again. I'd made it a little more than half-way through when I scrapped version 5 and about 2/3rds of the way through on version 6. Then I walked away, still dissatisfied, and hoping to recharge and find the story's heart. 

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How I wish I'd powered through in the early days of writing, back with my first outline, as I'd have been able to claim some sort of clairvoyant ability. In that version, Carmen del Toro, in her present carnation as Mother Nature, leaves a trail of destruction that includes powerful hurricanes devastating Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Florida, and Texas, earthquakes in Caribbean and Mexico, wildfires, floods, tornadoes and assorted other natural disasters (sound familiar?) Bee populations decline in spite of Carmen's best efforts to save them (although not because of 'murder hornets'--I didn't see that coming!), and a long forgotten pathogen emerges. In "Ye Goddess!" version 2, that pathogen was a bacteria, not a virus, but it stormed the population in a manner similar to what we're experiencing with SARS-CoV-2.

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I suspect that many authors are scrambling to rewrite and revise manuscripts with a contemporary or near-future setting to incorporate the reality of 2020. I won't be alone. I wish I could say I'm scrambling to incorporate the bizarre times into my story. Alas, I'm having to tone down my realism lest I appear to have no imagination and am merely recording life as we know it! I won't and can't claim any special forsight. All that we're experiencing now has been predicted by scientists, and the events are all the inevitable outcome of our own actions over the past century.  

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I'm not prescient in my storytelling. I've only incorporated the inevitable. One of the things I've struggled with in "Ye Goddess!" is how it needs to end. I've had both a 'happy ending' where the day is saved, and a horrific ending where humankind, in our hubris, succeeds in wresting power from the gods and pursuing our folly to our ultimate demise. 

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I don't know yet how my story will end but I do hope I can finish writing it before we find out how ours--humanity's--ends.

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2018-
2019
Writing, rewriting, and re-re- writing.

"A Rattling of Bones" is on the back burner until the Chupacabra Trilogy is complete! I've returned to the final book in the trilogy, with a modified working title: "Ye Goddess: The Tail's End." So where am I with that? Honestly, procrastination was winning the day over writing...but, I'd made it through the first 25 chapters (about 50,000 words)...then had an epiphany of sorts and threw is all out. I've got a plan in my head for the new outline. Next step: back to the drawing board--literally--to get that outline out of my head and out into the world. Then back to writing.  Oh, and in the midst of all this, moved from an adjunct (part-time) to full-time teaching position at the community college. 'Cause who doesn't need one more distraction from their writing time?

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Thanks for checking in!

2017
Writing, writing, writing.

Busy working on something new! "A Rattling of Bones." This novel will be based on my short story "Golf Goes On." You can find a link to that and a few of my other short stories HERE.

Fall 
2016
Book readings, signings, and conferences!

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ON THE AIR! Listen to Lynne LIVE on Speak Up Talk Radio with Pat Rullo, talking about books, writing, and animal rescue. 

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Tuesday 10/4 6:30-8:00 p.m. Reading and Book SigningRiverRead Books, Binghamton, N.Y. Send me a message on the Contact page for more info.

 

Friday-Sunday, 11/4-6  North Carolina Writers’ Network 2016 Fall Conference, Raleigh, NC. At the Underground Book Reviews' exhibitor table. We'll have giveaways of many great titles featured at UBR, including The Un-Familiar. Stop by and see me and register for raffles and giveaways!

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August 2016
Author events​

Friday 8/19 Reading and Book Signing. Richland, Washington. Send me a message on the Contact page for more info.

 

Wednesday 8/24 Reading and Book Signing. A Book for All Seasons, Leavenworth, Washington. 1-3 p.m.

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July 1, 2016
The Un-Familiar: A Tale of Cats and Gods

The chupacabra is back in this stormy sequel to Ye Gods!--and this time, he's brought friends (and maybe an enemy or two.)

 

Natural disasters are occurring in a most unnatural manner, and Carmen del Toro--the next familiar to the dog-god of Mercy (sometimes known as the chupacabra) is missing. Are the two related?

 

Coming July 1 from Casperian Books.

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