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As a kid, I loved to read. I wanted to know everything there was to know. I would read everything from magazines left out in a waiting room, my grandmother’s romance novels, my dad’s mystery books, the back of a cereal box— whatever I could find. I wrote poems and stories for fun but I put them all into a folder that got shoved into a bookshelf somewhere. I had never intended to explore the idea of being a writer beyond writing a few stray pieces as a stress-busting hobby. I didn’t go to school for literature or creative writing, except one elective class in college that I really loved. Years later, an idea for a story took root inside my head. The characters felt like they were almost visible, just trapped under water, and that it was my absolute mission to set them free so I could bring their story to life. Thus, my debut novel, a steamy paranormal romance entitled Wolf’s Challenge, was born.
In a world where not everything is
what it seems. Most people are unaware of the strange beings who seem to blend
in with everyone else and Sydney, the heroine of Wolf’s Challenge, is no
exception. She is completely unaware that shapeshifters, or anything else out
of the ordinary, exist. When she moves to Great Oaks, Virginia, she meets
Derrick, who challenges her to see beyond what she thought she knew, and to
take a chance on love, even when fear and doubt threaten to overwhelm them both.
I enjoy writing in the paranormal
romance genre because I love blending fantasy/science fiction elements into a
love story. I add in a fair amount of suspense because I have a lot of fun
putting my characters through epic amounts of danger.
Being a mom while being a writer has
been all about trying to work my schedule and creativity around my children at
their various stages of life. Just when I thought that I was set to have a fair
amount of writing time because the kids were becoming older and more independent,
I got sick with the dreaded plague. For months, I could barely do anything. For
even longer, I couldn’t make my brain cooperate with me. Headaches resulted whenever
I tried to plot and plan my novels.
I felt so defeated and angry at the
fact that I was powerless to heal faster, but I was determined to keep writing
in some way, so I switched my focus to poetry, which I had usually just done
sporadically, for fun. I ended up writing whole chapbooks of poems and then got
interested in learning how to do flash fiction and short stories. I liked the
challenge of trying to tell a whole story in a few pages. It took a while to
get the hang of things. Many notebooks full of beginnings with no end were
thrown in the thrash, but eventually, I found my way.
Things didn’t happen as quickly as I
would have liked, and there were many times where I thought I felt much better,
only to be feverish and tired within hours. Finally, I’m back to almost as good
as new. I’ve been working on the last book in my Stranger Creatures series,
Hawk’s Heart, which will be Jordan and Luke’s story. Each book in the series
features a different couple in their fight for a happily-ever-after. I’ve also
been working on a couple of romantasy novellas featuring women in their forties
navigating unexpected new paths in life, as well as writing more poetry as well
as sci fi and dystopian flash fiction.
If you’d like to follow me on
social media for my latest book information and excerpts, poems, contest info,
book recommendations, and other fun stuff, you can find me at:
Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/Christina-Lynn-Lambert/e/B01MCYK0K7
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/christina-lynn-lambert
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2 comments:
I so identify w/your reading habits, Christina. Like you, I read anything I could get my hands on as a child. And yes, I've often related that if nothing else was available, I read the back of cereal boxes. Maybe we're twins separated at birth. :)
If by the 'plague' you mean COVID, I'm sorry you had to go through that. Since I work from home and still mask up in public, I've avoided the plague thus far. The vaccines also helped. I was laid low by norovirus last summer (I found out it was the romaine I always ate) that made me so sick I couldn't stand. For months I struggled to get back to normal but still had constant stomach pains, etc. So I know (in a different way) what you've gone through. I also don't eat romaine any longer. :/
Glad you're back to 'almost good as new'. :)
I'm afraid of romaine lettuce, too! So many news stories in VA about bad lettuce. It was covid that took me out. I got the vax but my husband and daughter both work with the general public, so we've had the virus a few times despite precautions, but that one time was the worst.
Cheers to reading everything! Curiosity is the best!
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