Marilyn Lorraine "Lynn" Abbey (born September 18, 1948) is an American computer programmer and author. Read full biography of Lynn Abbey →
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent... →
Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures... →
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that... →
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked... →
Marilyn Lorraine "Lynn" Abbey (born September 18, 1948) is an American computer programmer and author.