Lynn Kurland

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Lynn Kurland


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Lynn began her writing career at the tender age of five with a series of illustrated novellas entitled Clinton’s Troubles in which the compelling hero found himself in all sorts of . . . well, trouble. She was living in Hawaii at the time and the scope for her imagination (poisoned fish, tropical cliffs, large spiders) was great and poor Clinton bore the brunt of it. After returning to the mainland, her writing gave way to training in classical music and Clinton, who had been felled with arrows, eaten by fish and sent tumbling off cars, was put aside for operatic heroes in tights.

Somehow during high school, in between bouts of Verdi and Rossini, she managed to find time to submerge herself in equal parts Tolkien, Barbara Cartland and Mad Ma
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“She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.”
Lynn Kurland, Spellweaver

“I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.”
Lynn Kurland, Princess of the Sword
tags: humor

“He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.”
Lynn Kurland, Star of the Morning

Polls

For our Spell-It-Out: F.I.R.S.T. Q.U.A.R.T.E.R.L.Y. Challenge, help us choose for the letter "L". - Round I.

theme: long friendship becomes more
 
  13 votes, 28.9%

 
  8 votes, 17.8%

character: librarian
 
  7 votes, 15.6%

author: Linda Howard
 
  6 votes, 13.3%

author: Laurann Dohner
 
  4 votes, 8.9%

author: Lynn Kurland
 
  3 votes, 6.7%

author: Lisa Jackson
 
  2 votes, 4.4%

color: lemongreen
 
  1 vote, 2.2%

author: Laurie R. King
 
  1 vote, 2.2%

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