Lyn Randal believes that a little boredom might be a good thing when
it comes to child development.
She experienced that firsthand, growing up on a farm in Mississippi,
where long summers and little social life led her to love books and
develop the creative imagination that fuels her stories today.
The area had previously spawned such literary greats as William
Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and (from Lyn’s own hometown) Elizabeth
Spencer. With such a heritage of local talent, it was probably
inevitable that Lyn chose to study English and American Literature at
Mississippi University for Women, later going on to share her passion
with others through teaching.
During that time, she also married a handsome and worthy hero and
reared two normal, noisy children. She completed more education – a
Master’s in School Administration – and taught herself all sorts of
homemaking skills, from gardening to quilting to making homemade jams
and jellies. But she never quite forgot her first and most secret
dream -- to craft romance novels that would combine strong emotional
conflicts with interesting historical settings.
In 2001, faced with the pending graduation of her eldest child from
high school and feeling the first stirrings of the coming
“empty-nest”, she decided the time had come to make her dream come
true.
By 2006, she’d finished four complete novels, made a host of new
friends, won numerous awards on the RWA contest circuit, and gotten
“the call” from Harlequin Mills and Boon.
“Writing is lonely work,” she says, “full of anxiety, and often
frustrating. But I’d rather be doing that than anything else I know.”
She loves happy endings, and enjoys hearing from readers who can
contact her through her website –
www.lynrandal.com.
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