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Cynthia English

Goodreads Author

Born

Salem, Oregon, The United States

Website

http://www.cynthiaenglish.com

Genre

Thriller, Romance, Nonfiction

Influences

Paulo Coelho, Norman Mailer, Leon Uris, Robert Goddard, Janet Evanovic ...more

Member Since

November 2009

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/cenglish

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Cynthia English spent the first 22 years of her diverse career in the fashion industry traveling worldwide sourcing vendors, managing manufacturing, shopping stores for inspiration, overseeing product design and building robust retail businesses on behalf of some of the largest global fashion brands. A passionate writer at heart—having written her first book at age 8, “Ralph the Mouse”—her creative spirit began to take hold after leaving the corporate world behind. She opened a small interior design company and created great dates™, a concept focused on building closer relationships through shared experience, which targeted multiple platforms including print, broadcast and web.

Her life continues to evolve as she explores cultural interc Cynthia English spent the first 22 years of her diverse career in the fashion industry traveling worldwide sourcing vendors, managing manufacturing, shopping stores for inspiration, overseeing product design and building robust retail businesses on behalf of some of the largest global fashion brands. A passionate writer at heart—having written her first book at age 8, “Ralph the Mouse”—her creative spirit began to take hold after leaving the corporate world behind. She opened a small interior design company and created great dates™, a concept focused on building closer relationships through shared experience, which targeted multiple platforms including print, broadcast and web.

Her life continues to evolve as she explores cultural interchange in every corner of the globe— from climbing the pyramids of Tikal, Guatemala to inspecting vanilla vines in Bali to being a volunteer in Zambia for Habitat for Humanity to trekking over 800 km solo from St. Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela, across El Camino, St. James’ Way. In an about-face from her high-glamour fashion roots, she learned how to survive with one change of clothing, the shoes on her feet (and her pink flip-flops), thus opening doors to an entirely new world of adventure brimming with freedom, more privilege, and everyday miracles.

English graduated from the Marshall School, University of Southern California, with a degree in International Finance. Privileged to attend Robert Bausch’s class at the Aspen Writer’s Conference, she also completed a creative writing program in 2007 with Oxford University’s School of Continuing Education, where she learned to embrace criticism, stay unique, and to keep working to be better. Taking inspiration from her many and widely varied adventures, she has had articles published in the United States and Europe and is now pursuing her childhood passion—writing fiction.

She has persevered through life’s lessons to provide on the pages of her novels powerful messages of love, acceptance of different and distinct lives, and preservation of free spirit in all humanity, regardless of origin and culture: Books set across the globe following an impassioned plea from a young woman named Honig, whom she met on a train between Budapest and Bucharest. Amazed at the miles Cynthia had traveled, Honig made one request of the author—”please, never stop delivering world adventure to those unable to make the journeys themselves.”

BLACK SATIN is her first novel. Two novels––TORN and THE VANILLA VAULT––are slated for future release.
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Cynthia’s Quotes

“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: accomplishment, aspirations, drive, flying, goals, wings

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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

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“Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think…”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

tags: philosophy, truth

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