Location: United States
Member Since: Jan. 14, 2015

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Lin Martin

Biography

I don't claim to have ever done anything normal in my life. At age 19 l rode off on a motorcycle from the farm where I was raised in Pennsylvania. I finally returned to visit five years later with a husband twice my age. That marriage produced two wonderful sons and ended in divorce. Husband number 2, ten years younger than me, is still my good friend. I may have finally gotten it right with number 3. At least our ages are very similar!
Along the way, I have delved into jobs ranging from bar tending to shoe sales to factory work. When I tired of stocking salad bar at age 38, I started back to school. I never really planned on any particular career, but learning became so addictive that I plunged through more education than you could use to stuff a turkey. I'm a geomorphologist at heart - a person who loves knowing how the landscape is formed. I taught for a year with the University of Pa. system and then returned to Missouri to resolve the long distance relationship I'd had for so long with my current partner. Events led me to stay unemployed and I have used part of that time to engage in the writing that gives me pleasure. It is my hope that readers will enjoy my efforts too.
I am just getting into this social network thing. In the meantime, please reach me at linmartinbooks@gmail.com.

Smashwords Interview

What is the greatest joy of writing for you?
Writing might perhaps be a "gift" of mine. I say that not because I feel I'm particularly good at it, but because it is something that has sort of come to me, especially over the past seven years as I have played with the ideas in the Bornlord Saga. I call it a "gift" because first, it defines me; I like to write. Second, there is little real effort to it. I set the idea and the words burrow around in my head until they feel right and finally spill out. Then I correct them until they feel even more right. Words and paragraphs develop a flow in my mind, with a certain rhythm and pace. My more recent writing reflects much more of this flow than did my earlier works. As I reread the Bornlord books, which were not written in their published order, I can clearly see where stilted ideas and language grew into something worth sharing. That gives me great joy.
What do your fans mean to you?
I see readers as friends, each with their own interests and yet all sharing the common things that mean we're human. We all want to be stimulated, entertained, made to think, to laugh, maybe to cry - just each of us in different quantities. Can one book answer all of that? No, but an author can try.
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