Lynn Blackmar ← Geek Author

First Excerpt From Rebel

Nov

2012

I am working on the editing for Rebel, the second book in the Misfit Spies series, and I thought I would share with you an excerpt for #FridaySnippets, along with a peek at the new cover. Rebel is from Nate’s point of view, if you read the first novel. This excerpt doesn’t contain any spoilers if you’ve read the first book, and really doesn’t have anything spoilerish if you did not.

Ten Questions About Nanowrimo Blog Chain

Nov

2012

What is the working title of your book? Scarlet Where did the idea come from for the book? It’s based on the well-known public domain novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, with a 17-year-old girl as the title character. I’ve loved the story of The Scarlet Pimpernel for a long time, and there’s been some fairly traditional television updates, and one wonderful musical, but I haven’t seen a novel update of it. There might be one out there, but I haven’t managed to find one. What genre does your book fall under? YA Fantasy, but it’s low fantasy. It’s ...

Spooky BlogFlash

Oct

2012

This story was written for the “Spooky” Halloween BlogFlash, sponsored the Goodreads Indie Exchange: Spooky Night The footsteps continued, back and forth, on the other side of the wall. The woman shivered inside the tiny den, but whether from the fever or the cold was uncertain. Everyone slept soundly, but her. She opened the door, peering out into the dark, and yet, every time she closed the door, the footsteps resumed. The woman had known for years that the house was haunted. She had heard the ghosts before. They took up residence in the kitchen, moved furniture, rustled paper and ...

Lynn’s Guide to Nanowrimo

Oct

2012

Everybody’s got advice on Nanowrimo lately, and since I’ve won several times, and wrote my first novel via Nanowrimo, I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon. The trouble with me, though, is that I tend to walk around on the bandwagon asking awkward questions that nobody else considers. Many authors either don’t like Nanowrimo, or make it sound terribly hard. Hint: most professional authors write that much anyway each day, or even more, and even if they have another full-time profession. Several of my favorite authors write upwards of 10k words a day! Some authors write 60k books in a ...

Bublish Blurb

Oct

2012

Blublish is a new platform that allows me to post quotes or excerpts from my novels with a little commentary on them. I find it an ingenious idea, and will try not to post any major spoilers with my excerpts or commentary. My first Bublish is about the mysterious “Agent” in chapter 1 of Surfer Girl. Read it here!

Read Misfit for FREE!

Oct

2012

Read Misfit for free on a number of sites, including iTunes, Smashwords, Sony, and Goodreads. I still am trying to get Amazon to price match Misfit to free, but the process might take some time. Lorna Grant just wanted to do her job. Of course, random explosions, chase scenes, and megalomaniacs aside, being a spy was mostly about being in the right place at the right time to find the wrong people. A mission to uncover a CIA double-agent leads her to a bumbling technology company, where she goes undercover as a quality assurance engineer. She is assigned genius CIA ...

Misfit Prequel Story

Sep

2012

Lorna Grant just wanted to do her job. Of course, random explosions, chase scenes, and megalomaniacs aside, being a spy was mostly about being in the right place at the right time to find the wrong people. A mission to uncover a CIA double-agent leads her to a bumbling technology company, where she goes undercover as a quality assurance engineer. She is assigned genius CIA analyst Sterling Flynn, posing as a corporate financial auditor, but when the stakes end up higher than assumed, her unit director tries to take over with unfortunate consequences. The story is finished and uploaded, just ...

Surfer Girl available on Amazon!

Jul

2012

Surfer Girl, the first book in the Misfit Spies series, is available now for Amazon Kindle. Surfer Girl will be FREE on Amazon Friday and Saturday, so be sure to drop by and pickup a copy. Also free, the founding short story, Misfit, will be available starting next week. College surfer Arena Schmidt tries to stop the kidnapping of her roommate, unintentionally revealing herself as the only person who can use a top-secret stolen technology. She wakes up in a government facility indebted to the least likely group of spies, and the CIA threatens to take everything she loves ...

Keeping Up with the Joneses….and their Blogs

Jul

2012

To approach my first “I’m trying to be helpful and help you out of that muddy ditch and away from the giant dog that seems to think you are a chew toy” post, I’m going to give you one of my secrets for boundless knowledge. It’s called Feedly. Feedly is a fancy RSS reader. It shows you all the blogs you follow in a format of your choosing. You can use it on any browser, and it uses Google Reader to gather your material. On each blog you read, you click click on the little icon at the lower-right corner. ...