One
of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia…I love to curl up
with a book about some dusty corner of history.”
– Lynn Abbey
Born in Upstate New York on this day
in 1948, Marilyn Lorraine “Lynn” Abbey was firmly entrenched as a computer
programmer when she literally got started in the writing and publishing world
by accident. In 1979, while driving to
pick up famed science fiction writer Gordon R. Dickson for a guest appearance
at a SciFi Convention, she was severely injured in a car accident. Dickson, feeling guilty, offered to critique
and even edit some of her writing after learning that Abbey not only was a fan
of his work but also had been doing some creative writing of her own.
His assistance led to her first book
Daughter of the Bright Moon being accepted and published to accolades
that got her hooked on doing more. Later
that same year she also had her first short story "The Face of
Chaos," published as part of a Thieves World anthology. Since
then, the anthology route has been a good one for Abbey, who has
had numerous additional stories selected – constantly exposing her writing to
many new readers who like to read books of short stories by a range of
authors. 
Abbey says as a writer she demands results from her characters. “ I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god - and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters,” she said. “In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.”
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