Hey y’all!

I’m in the mountains at the lake. It’s been a good week, but also a weird week. It’s rained. It’s been cold (for August), and I’ve felt the pull of trying to squeeze in some relaxation while simultaneously managing the beginning of the school year and book revisions. As someone who struggles to relax under the best of circumstances, it’s been a challenge.

Then, MailerLite (my newsletter/blog subscription service) decided to randomly send out messages yesterday when there was no new blog post! Do we know why? No. No we do not. Does MailerLite know why? Maybe? But their answer was, “It was a glitch. We fixed it.”

This is where having an imagination can be a dangerous thing. Because now, I want to know what happened. And I’m not buying the whole “glitch” answer. I have a few different ideas, all of which are based on my (potentially erroneous) idea that the people who work there are all computer nerds.

• Someone spilled their coffee and, in the chaos, accidentally changed some code, and no one knew it until all these blank posts went out.
• Something locked up, and they just unplugged everything and plugged it back in (because that usually fixes it, right?), and they reset something that wasn’t supposed to be reset.
• It was bring the kids to work day, and someone’s little computer genius in training didn’t want to be there. She wanted to be at home reading a book. So to vent her frustration, she messed with the code.
• Someone is made that they didn’t get employee of the month, and this was their payback.
• Gremlins.

None of that is the point of this post, but now you’ve had a glimpse into the weirdness of my brain. I hope you haven’t been too traumatized!

Now, on to the point.

I have a newsletter. Many of you subscribe, but there are still a lot of you who don’t.

I don’t usually share my newsletter publicly because it’s for newsletter subscribers. You subscribe, you get the newsletter and all the goodies that go with it.

But I’m making an exception this time. I want everyone to see what they’re getting when they sign up for my newsletters, and I’m hoping more friends will become newsletter subscribers.

And of course I’m sweetening the pot with a giveaway. A big one. You could win a complete set of signed copies of the Dive Team Investigations series or the Defend and Protect series!

You can get entries by signing up for my newsletter, for following me on social media outlets, and for signing up to receive a notice when I update the blog.

I’d love for you to check it out!

Lynn’s July Newsletter

Assuming our friends at MailerLite were telling the truth when they said they’ve fixed the glitch, once you subscribe you’ll only receive an email when there’s a new newsletter or a new blog post.

And if you get random emails, you can be sure it’s not my fault.

We’ll blame it on the gremlins. Or the glitches. Or the little girls who want to go home and read books. Let’s face it, we all get how they feel!

Grace and peace,

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Unknown Threat, Book 1 in the Defend and Protect series, is a 2021 Christy Award Finalist in the Mystery/Thriller/Suspense category. 

Y’all may need to give me a few years to adjust to this!

The Christy Awards are a big deal in the world of Christian publishing and under no circumstances was I expecting to receive this news today.

In fact, I had a very busy morning and when the announcement was made, I was fixing lunch for my kids while thinking through what we needed to accomplish this afternoon.

I didn’t know anything about it until I got a text from my friend, mentor, and fellow author Lynette Eason, congratulating me on the Christy nomination.

My eloquent reply was, “What?” 

(I know, I know. Y’all are thinking the Christy judges might want to rescind the nomination after that show of writing excellence).

Thankfully, the judges don’t see my texts. They saw a book that I cried and prayed over. That my amazing editors, Kelsey Bowen and Amy Ballor, took apart and put back together. That copyeditors and proofreaders poured over until we had a finished manuscript we could all be proud to share with my readers. 

I am humbled, thrilled, stunned, and delighted to be a Christy finalist, and I’m honored to be in the company of my fellow nominees, Carrie Stuart Parks, Lisa Harris, and Lynne Gentry as well as the stellar authors nominated in the other categories.

The Christy Award winners will be announced later this month, but I never even dared to imagine I would be in this position so this is definitely a case where it is truly an honor to be nominated! 

I want to say a huge THANK YOU to my readers who have loved Unknown Threat and have been so kind with reviews and social media posts. Y’all are the best!

And if you haven’t read Unknown Threat, now would be a great time! Seems like some folks liked it a lot.  

Grace and peace,

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This fall, I created something special for my readers.

The Dive Team is called out to help with a case that has Dr. Sharon Oliver, their favorite medical examiner, working overtime dodging bullets and grenades while reeling from the surprise appearance of the man she said goodbye to ten years ago, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Benjamin North. He usually protects the President, but will he be able to keep Sharon safe from the unseen enemy stalking her every move?

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