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Lynn Marron
[edit]Writer of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mysteries, and Paranormal works, Lynn Mary Marron was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1947. She is also known as a working artist in multiple mediums, having won prizes for her layered watercolors.
Life and Works
Descended from a long line of card readers, with her mother, Terri, Lynn was one of the founders of the Hicksville Parapsychology Society. She lost her father Gerald T . Marron when she was five, and later was raised by her stepfather, George W. Kear. From grade school on she wanted to be a artist, and was fortunate in her twenties to study under the famed watercolorist John Rogers. Lynn has art work in the collections of Nassau Community College, the Hicksville Public library and numerous private individuals. She has had several one man shows, and at seventeen became the youngest Vice President and later President of the Independent Art Society. Attending Nassau Community College she earned an A.A. in Fine Arts 1969, but learned (incorrectly) that the future of art was going to be in abstract works only–not something she wished to do.
For Lynn giving up fine art as a life’s goal left a big hole. Studying it, Lynn deciding that she wanted to a be a millionaire, and millionaires worked at least fourteen hour days, so she’d better find something she enjoyed doing and was good at. Surveying her life for interests Lynn came up with daydreaming and watching T-V, so she started writing television scripts in Hicksville Long Island. Unfortunately, every time Lynn managed to acquire an agent and get a script submitted the show promptly died. Now you know who killed Star Trek; Here Come the Brides; Ghost and Mrs. Muir; Bonanza and Gunsmoke and others too numerous to mention. Not getting anywhere, she took a chance and wrote Dorothy (D.C.) Fontana, who suggested she go to Clarion State College (now University) and take their Science Fiction Writers Course for six weeks in the summer of 1969.
That classic course was originated by Robin Scott Wilson. For Lynn it was mind expanding, with instructors such as Fred Pohl, Fritz Leiber; Harlan Ellison, Kate Wilhelm and Damon Knight. Lynn attended Clarion in 1969 and 1970. Many of her fellow students went on to be well known writers in the Science Fiction field: Gardner Dozois; Glen Cook; George Alec (Piglet) Effinger; Robert Thurston; Grant Carrington; Dave J. Skal, Ed Bryant, (Estelle) Octavia Butler, Gerry Conway, and Vonda Mcintyre, .
For the first time meeting weird minded people, Lynn thrived. Returning home she made her first professional sale a comic book script called “Snow Beast” to Joe Orlando at National Periodicals (DC) (They did Superman and Wonder Woman). She continued selling stories to House of Mystery, Adventure Comics, etc. at D.C.. She also began selling to the non-comic code, black and white Warren Publishing, Eerie, Creepy and Vampirella. Finally going back to college (with extended learning) she earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from S.U.N.Y. at Old Westbury in 1979. Hicksville Long Island is down the road from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory facility where Barbara McClintock was then researching genetics. Lynn based her first mystery series -- the ORR Grace Farrington books -- on a updating fictionalization of the the famous genetic pioneer. Addicted to taking advanced learning courses her whole life, Lynn attended the Arts Students League in NYC, but she often admitted to supporting herself pretty much her entire life on an one hundred and fifty dollar Typing and Switchboard course from Adelphi Business School in Mineola in 1965.)
During the 1970s Lynn attended the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Script Writer Workshop in New York City and became interested in Directing. Returning to live in Stamford, CT, she continued trying to sell television scripts. She also became fascinated with radio as a vastly creative medium, where with just a few cheap sound effects she could create a racing herd of wild horses running from a exploding volcano. She submitted a script called “The Chopping Block Murders” to Himan Brown’s CBS Radio Mystery Theater which died, but out in Ohio her “Spinning Witch” radio play was produced on the Diabolique series. And for Payton Place 79, a syndicated night time television serial drama (soap opera), she was hired as a dialoguer, a job which she loved, but the series did not achieve enough stations for syndication, so it never appeared on the air.
Writing short stories, Lynn became a member of SFWA and HWA and received several Nebula nominations for a Science Fiction story of hers called “We Call Them Flowers” published in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Still, life moves on, and for a number of years she worked just to earn a living as a permanent temporary or afterward as an administrative assistant. Marrying later in life in 1999 she had a triplet pregnancy that produced twin boys, and now lives in Connecticut. With her sons in high school, Lynn has returned to writing fantasy and--her passion–mysteries.
Her first book Centauresses of the Silver Dragon chronicled the adventures of a mercenary band of oversized centaurs and is currently published in print, Nook and Kindle versions on Amazon and Barnes and Noble for Kear Publishing. Her next series follows the fortyish Grace Farrington, a DNA genius who finds romance while she solving mysteries, many of them connected to Deoxyribonucleic acid discoveries.
Another of Lynn’s series follows the experiences of triplets separated at the age of five, when their witch mother was stabbed to death during a Beltane ritual. The triplets are reunited sixteen years later in Mystic, Connecticut, where Holly Corey is turning Witch House into a bed and breakfast, while her brother Noel is a beluga trainer at the Mystic Aquarium, and brother Frost works in the Whaling Seaport reconstruction. Between solving murders, Holly is learning her families’ witchcraft, while she is romanced by the handsome police Sargent Paul Travinski.
The first in Lynn’s next series was Adam’s Unorthodox, Unnatural Law Practice, tales of a St. Louis lawyer who writes contracts for werewolves, saves gorgons, protects fire starters, dates a mermaid, and generally deals with the paranormal law practice he inherited.
Works
Novels
ORR: The Nobel Prize Murder[1][2] Library of Congress: 2015937416
ORR: Fatal DNA[3] Library of Congress: 2016939778
ORR: Murder Genetically Engineered[4] Library of Congress: 2017937672
ORR: The Tell Tale Y Library of Congress: 2017956884
The Psychics’ Seaport Murder Library of Congress: 2015939715
Murder at the Altar Library of Congress: 2017934596
Centauresses of the Silver Dragon Library of Congress: 2015936998
Adam’s Unorthodox Unnatural Law Practice Library of Congress: 2016931833
Short Stories
“We Call Them Flowers” Fantasy and Science Fiction
Comic Book Scripts
“Snow Beast” House of Mystery (D.C.) Vol 1 Issue 199 Feb. 1972
“Wings of Jealous Gods” Adventure Comics (D.C) Vol. 425 Jan. 73
“Death at Castle Dunbar” Secrets of Sinister House (D.C.) Vol 1 #5 July 1972
“The Immortality Thieves” Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion #7
“Deadman’s Treasure!” Vampirella #14 Nov 1971
“Horror at the Hamilton House” Eerie # 37 Jan. 1972
“Spellbound” Creepy Magazine #46 July of 1972
“Blood Brothers!” Vampirella # 26 1974
Radio Play
“The Spinning Witch” produced on Diabolque series, Ohio
References
D C Database
Author Profile Creepy Magazine #46 July of 1972, Page 64
Links
- ^ Marron, Lynn (April 8, 2015). ORR: The Nobel Prize Murder. united states: Kerr Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-1-942888-03-1. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
undefinedwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Marron, Lynn (May 6, 2016). ORR: Fatal DNA:. United States: Kerr Press. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-942888-11-6. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
- ^ Marron, Lynn. ORR: Murder Genetically Engineered: A Grace Farrington Mystery (Volume 3): Lynn Marron: 9781942888154: Amazon.com: Books. United States. p. 316. Retrieved 23 November 2017.