A fifth generation Texan, Lynda has hopped
across literary and geographic boundaries in her writing career. She's
been a freelance journalist, travel writer, ghostwriter, restaurant and
film reviewer, copywriter, college professor, book collaborator, and
nonfiction author while living/writing/studying in Chicago, San Diego,
New Orleans, Madrid, and lots of other heres and theres around the
globe.
As a freelance journalist, she's petted baby rhinos, snorkeled with
endangered sea turtles, hang-glided off a small Swiss mountain, dodged
hurricanes, and interviewed the famous and not-so-famous to write dozens
of articles for national and international magazines, newspapers and
travel guides, her travel photographs often appearing with her work.
She's also crafted collaborative nonfiction with people from all walks
of life as well as organizations such as the San Diego Zoo and Wild
Animal Park for which she's shown below doing an interview.
Her creative writing, though, has always been the love of her writing
life and the stuff of her literary dreams. She holds an MFA from the
University of New Orleans and has won awards and residencies from the
Illinois Arts Council, Writers League of Texas, Ragdale Foundation,
Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Squaw Valley Community of Writers as
well as juried attendance to Sewanee Writers Conference among others.
Currently, she is behaving herself in front of her computer screen in
the hill country outside Austin, pursuing those pesky literary
pretensions as she enjoys her debut novel with Putnam's Amy Einhorn
Books.
Her debut novel:
On the last day of the millennium, sassy Faith Bass Darling, the
richest old lady in Bass, Texas, decides to have a garage sale. With
help from a couple of neighborhood boys, Faith lugs her priceless Louis
XV elephant clock, countless Tiffany lamps, and everything else from her
nineteenth-century mansion out onto her long, sloping lawn.
Why is a recluse of twenty years suddenly selling off her dearest possessions? Becasue God told her to.
Why is a recluse of twenty years suddenly selling off her dearest possessions? Becasue God told her to.
As the townspeople grab up five generations of heirlooms, everyone
drawn to the sale--including Faith's lon-lost daughter--finds that the
antiques not only hold family secrets but also inspire some of life's
most imponderable questions:
Do our possessions possess us? What are we
without our memories? Is there life after death or second chances here
on earth? And is Faith really selling that Tiffany lamp for $1?
Lynda tells us more about the book:
Lynda shares her thoughts about her editor, agents as well as some writing advice:
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