by Lynn Lipinski | Jan 6, 2024 | Fiction
TikTok’s a goldmine for Amazon shopping blunder videos. People order stuff without a care, and then, surprise! You just spent a hundred dollars on a doll’s chair when you thought you were buying something for humans to sit on. Here’s my literary version....
by Lynn Lipinski | Dec 31, 2018 | Fiction, Oklahoma, Personal, Writing
The bones of the Bloodlines story rattled around in my head for nearly a decade. The main character, Zane Clearwater, was an intruder into my original story. He had a minor role as a love interest to another character. But as I wrote and rewrote the story and worked...
by Lynn Lipinski | Oct 5, 2018 | Fiction, Writing
This first appeared in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel in October 2018. Are you made of lead or water? Will you sink, or will you flow? Life is rough on the banks of the Kentucky River in Barlow Adams’s debut novella, Appalachian Alchemy, which finds the youngest...
by Lynn Lipinski | Apr 21, 2018 | Fiction, Writing
This review first appeared in The Same on March 28, 2018. My freshman year of high school I crushed on a boy named T. After months of in-class flirting and meaningful looks, T. asked me to go to the movies with him one afternoon after school. My first date! I was...
by Lynn Lipinski | Oct 25, 2016 | Fiction, Personal, Writing
My book signing Saturday at Book Soup in West Hollywood drew a great crowd of friends and fans. What a treat it was to be on such hallowed ground on the Sunset Strip, appearing just days after Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson and a few days before Girls’ creator...
by Lynn Lipinski | Aug 23, 2013 | Fiction, Writing
Writing is not unlike mining for gemstones. It’s labor intensive, can be frustrating and sometimes surprisingly rewarding. You can write better reports, blogs, emails and tweets if you break your writing tasks into three easy steps, similar to those taken by a...
