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Lynda Engler

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When not reading or writing, I enjoy being outdoors, either walking, cycling, kayaking, or skiing; or indoors binge-watching sci-fi series. I came to writing late in life and still regret that none of my teachers in middle- or high-school ever told me to do some creative writing.

My first book, The Forgotten Isle (Middle Grade fantasy) came about as a project that my son, Colin, and I thought up while he was in middle school. My second book, Into the Outside, is a YA dystopian sci-fi. Into the Yellow Zone, and Under the Mountain (Books 2 and 3 in the trilogy) came out in 2017.

My time travel short story "Time's Anchor" (2016, Kindle and Audible) is a story of love, friendship and life’s joys and sorrows, set against the backdrop of a myster
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Lynda Engler I reread what I've already written and hope for inspiration. Sometimes all I wind up with is creating backstory for characters, especially those that …moreI reread what I've already written and hope for inspiration. Sometimes all I wind up with is creating backstory for characters, especially those that don't really need it. Of course, that is just an industrious form of writer's block! But it does keep me writing, even if nothing I write makes it into the final edit.(less)
Lynda Engler First, learn about the publishing world, and then keep learning because it changes all the time. I was lucky because I began my career straight out of…moreFirst, learn about the publishing world, and then keep learning because it changes all the time. I was lucky because I began my career straight out of college working for a national book store chain (yes kids, there used to be STORES that sold physical books!) Learn about what editors and publishers want. Learn about writing; this is where spelling DOES count… and grammar, and tense, and punctuation, and word order. All those rules your English teachers tried to teach you… PLEASE learn them. A great plot with awesome characters will NOT make a good book if it’s badly written.

Second, read everything you can. Don’t even think about becoming a writer if you haven’t spent your lifetime being a reader. Read in and out of your genre. Read the top sellers because your manuscript will be compared to those. Read the Classics – ok read SOME of the Classics. Some are just awful. I’m sorry but some of the “great” books are unreadable in this day and age. Don’t get me started on the Classics that I hated.(less)
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UNDER THE MOUNTAIN releases Nov 8th!

Wednesday Nov 8, UNDER THE MOUNTAIN, the final volume of the 5 star INTO THE OUTSIDE series will hit the shelves. Pre-order your Kindle copy today for only $0.99.
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Sanctuary of the Shadow by Aurora Ascher
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Fantasy isn't my fav genre, but this one wasn't bad, though the dialog was quite repetitive, with somewhat blah resolutions:
Harrow: I love you
Raith: But I hurt you
Harrow: But I love you
Raith: What if I hurt you again?
Harrow: You wouldn't; I love you
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The Survivors Guild by Gabriella Saab
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The Survivors Guild, by Gabriella Saab, is historical fiction about two young women from very different classes thrown together when one rescues the other during the sinking of the Titanic.

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Where the Girls Were by Kate Schatz
Where the Girls Were
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What an impactful book! In 1968 California, a 17-year-old valedictorian finds herself pregnant. Baker is excruciatingly smart but incredibly naive! No one ever taught her about the birds and the bees, so when she meets a cool hippie and starts sleepi ...more
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Taipei Story by R.F. Kuang
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An interesting coming-of-age novel. Lily is a fantastic student but has always felt inadequate in her parents' native tongue: Chinese. Growing up in the US, with her 2 sisters mostly speaking English, she deeply feels a magnificent lack of Chinesenes ...more
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North is the Night by Emily Rath
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This book is absolutely gorgeous, but every time I read fantasy, I'm reminded of why I don't like fantasy: Magic doesn't engage me. Things just happen because witches or gods will it. But I'm always looking for the reason for things. And I wonder thi ...more
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The Mountains We Call Home by Kim Michele Richardson
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The third in the series, this novel by @kimmichelerichardson is set in 1950s Kentucky and follows Book Woman Cussy Lovett, a "Kaintuk" woman with a genetic condition that tinges her skin blue... very blue when she is nervous. Cussy and her husband ar ...more
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Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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The 4th volume of the epic Children of Time saga stretches ahead hundreds of thousands of years and rivals the Foundation universe or the Expanse.

Covering three Ages of civilization, the book jumps around between the three. The First Age is the age
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Cold Eyes by Peter Cawdron
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Peter Cawdron makes hard science fiction easy to understand. The UN warship Magellan is twelve light-years from Earth, exploring a cold eye, a tidally locked super-Earth called Bee. At least two advanced intelligent species evolved on the planet, but ...more
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The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee
The Last Contract of Isako
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500 years after the planet Aquilo was settled, terraforming continues while colonists live under airshields. Not quite a dome; it's temperature-permeable. The entire planet is a "company town," and its culture has grown up around that plan. When you ...more
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“Malcolm had been leader for six years, since his own father had died at the ripe old age of twenty-one;”
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“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”
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message 10: by Anne

Anne Hi, Lynda! Thanks for the friend request and enjoy White Horse!


Cheryl Landmark Thanks for the friend request, Lynda.


message 8: by Mark

Mark thanks for accepting my friend request!


message 7: by J.

J. Bralick Thanks for the add! Always wonderful to meet fellow YA authors! Best of luck to you...I will have to check out your book! :)


Christine Hatfield thanks for being my friend


Melissa Thank you for the friend request! I will deffinatly check out you book, and i look forward to reading it. I too enjoyed the Hunger Games series, but didn't care too much for the last one. Found it to be a total let down. The movie however i enjoyed, but the start could of been a bit faster paced :)
~Melissa


Rollie Thank You for the add. :)


Michelle Kobus Hi! :) Glad to meet you! =)


Iriana Thank you for the friend request :)


Barbara Hi! I like YA and enjoy people of like minds. I see that you write YA as well and think it is wonderful to have such a gift! Yesterday I spoke with a person when I was working that goes to SCI FI Conventions all over the world. He said they are some of the most amazing people on the planet. I think there are amazing people in all fields but love creativity.


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