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Lynette M Burrows
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Commercial Fiction, Self-Help/Personal Development, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Other, Womens Fiction, Writing & Publishing
Skills: Writing Workshop, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Reading/Literary Event
Lynette M. Burrows is a survivor. She survived moving to seventeen different schools before she graduated from high school. She contends that this makes her uniquely qualified to write a dystopian novel or two.
Lynette enjoys coffee, the pleasure of real books, and the crack of a nine-millimeter, not necessarily all at the same time—although they all appear in her stories. Spiced with a dash of intrigue, a dollop of mayhem, and a liberal dose of automatic weapons her stories aim to entertain.
The White Box stories, her collaborations with Rob Chilson, appeared in Analog Science Fiction Science Fact magazine. She’s also had stories published in regional and national children’s magazines.
Her five star debut novel, My Soul to Keep, takes place in America but it’s not the nation you know. Readers have said it has the social significance of The Handmaid’s Tale and the suspense and plot will keep you turning pages.
She blogs regularly about inspiration, books, story research, writing, and other subjects of interest. She loves to talk to people about books, about writing, or about that one odd thing no one knows about your occupation. Talk to Lynette on her website, Facebook, or one of her author pages.
Lynette, her artist husband and their pack of Yorkies live in Oz, otherwise known as Kansas.
Lynette M Burrows' books
My Soul to Keep, Fellowship Dystopia Book 1
She dared to break the rules. But in 1961 Fellowship America, the rules aren't optional.
Miranda yearns for a life of her own. Yet as an elite member of the Fellowship, she must marry the man her parents choose. Live in his shadow. Be his perfect wife.
Her life will never be her own.
She escapes. Creates a new identity. Lives a new life.
Her newfound freedom reveals a world far more treacherous than she'd ever imagined.
Each new friend carries the scars of pain and loss.
It's a world where the villains of her childhood nightmares, the mythic Angels of Death, Take unbelievers.
She uncovers secrets disguised as truth. Scandalous, deadly secrets that change her life.
Someone desperately wants to hide the truth. Desperate enough to send the Angels of Death after her friends. After her.
To save her friends and country, Miranda must make a choice: return home or confront her past.
Will she return to her life of comfort and lies and rules?
Or will she reveal the truth? Fight alongside the rebels? Even if it destroys her family? Even if she must face the Angel of Death?
If I Should Die, Fellowship Dystopia Book 2
After escaping abuse and the life of a rebel soldier, Miranda navigates her yacht through the inland waterways, rescuing fugitives from tyranny. She looks forward to a winter in warmer waters and a safer locale than 1964 Fellowship America. But her family isn’t done with her yet.
She receives two letters. Now she must choose between war and peace. Between brother and sister.
Her estranged sister, the wife of the Fellowship’s newly confirmed Prophet, offers her forgiveness and a chance for peace.
Her brother, sworn to destroy the tyrants of the Fellowship, needs rescued from certain death so he can deliver vital information to the rebel leader.
Voyaging against the current, she weighs her choices.
Will she stick to her peaceful principles and allow many to die or resurrect her dark side to save lives?
No matter which choice she makes, it will cost her. Dearly.
Fellowship, Companion novel to the Fellowship Dystopia Series
High school senior, Ian Hobart, dreams of becoming a star reporter. Until one word, one symbol, changes his life forever.
Before the Prophet, con men and thieves and murderers drove America into the Great Depression and to the brink of destruction. In those dark days, the Prophet brought the Fellowship and its Council forth to guide America out of the darkness. And under the rules of the Fellowship, many Americans prospered. But some live in fear of the Fellowship Shield.
Nearly twenty years after the Nazi-European War,Ian rides his bike home after his shift as copy boy, dreaming of the day he has his own car, but all his wishes and worries disappear at the sight of the Fellowship shield burned into the family’s front door.
He can’t believe it. Doesn’t want to believe it.
The Angels of Death Took his parents and older brother.
And government agents pursue him and his three younger siblings.
Ian and his siblings grab a few supplies and flee into the wilds of the Blue Ridge Mountains. They rely on his savvy and survival skills.
But life in the mountains is brutal and unforgiving. Resources are limited. Food is scarce. And winter is coming.
They won’t survive without help.
With no one else he can trust, Ian turns to his best friend.
And puts all their lives in danger.