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A Matter of Mercy

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Lynne • 1 Comment

I’m thrilled to introduce you to my new novel, A MATTER OF MERCY, published August 1. This one has so much of my heart in it. Set in Wellfleet on Cape Cod, it began when I became friends with one of the oyster farmers, Barbara Austin, whom I met while walking the beach at low tide. She was working… Continue Reading

A Love Story

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Lynne • 17 Comments

I have spent all morning lying in the sunshine on the floor with Hannah the Lab, knowing it’s our last morning together. She can’t get to her feet by herself anymore. It came on fairly suddenly last week, this final diminishment. My husband and I can see that it’s confusing and upsetting her to be lifted to… Continue Reading

Writing About The Elderly

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Lynne • 8 Comments

Hannah, my chocolate Lab, a main character in Where The Trail Grows Faint, will be thirteen next month. Our forays into the woods have changed, although she still shows me that she wants to go by following me to the door in the late afternoon when I get up from working to head out for a walk. She waits… Continue Reading

Do The Right Thing Even If You Look Like An Idiot

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Lynne • 4 Comments

Have you ever tried to do what you were pretty sure was the right thing only to have it explode? Even have two other seemingly sane and intelligent people tell you yes, you should do it before you went ahead and did that thing that exploded? So here’s the story. It was Saturday’s chilly dusk and I was driving home. I’d reached my own quiet… Continue Reading

On Zusak, Gadhafi and Surprise

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Lynne • 4 Comments

An unexpected ludicrous moment, a twist into tragedy, a flash of tenderness: surprise by a character is a crucial element of a riveting story. Speaking yesterday at the College of Mount Saint Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio, Marcus Zusak discussed this as well as describing how he wrote multiple drafts of The Book Thief, trying out different narrators as he worked to understand… Continue Reading

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