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Lindsey Renee Backen

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I believe hope is the strongest thread that unites us from where we are in life to where our created potential can be. While fulfilling dreams and reaching goals requires additional traits, the starting point is always a spark of hope that you can actually do it. Hope gives people the courage to pick up a pen, move across the country, start a new career, or even survive captivity, war, and the everyday stresses of life. Creating that spark of hope is what I love to do.

My books cross genres and themes: like life, their stories weave threads of the best and worst of moments, triumphs, and traumas. My fiction is deeply character-driven, centered around the inner worlds of the characters as they face outer challenges, confront their own flaws,
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Lindsey Renee Backen Write! Don't let fear stop you. I wasn't good at spelling, had bad handwriting, and still occasionally flip my letters backwards or write them out of …moreWrite! Don't let fear stop you. I wasn't good at spelling, had bad handwriting, and still occasionally flip my letters backwards or write them out of order. If you keep writing, keep challenging yourself to try a new style, rewrite your work, even write with others in an ongoing story, you will get better. Reading helps you learn pacing and expands your ability to draw on different ideas. And never judge yourself by your first draft. Writing is like being a detective. You start with only an idea of what might have happened, but you have to get to know the characters, their history, and their motivation before you get to the truth of what's going on. Most of my stories go through three revisions before I feel like I have the entire picture. www.750words.com is a good way to develop the habit of writing a little every day.(less)
Lindsey Renee Backen I am so excited about my current project. I published my first book when I was twenty-three, "The Secret of Sentarra." I already had the second writte…moreI am so excited about my current project. I published my first book when I was twenty-three, "The Secret of Sentarra." I already had the second written and a bit of the third. I decided to rewrite the second book and did work on it. But life happened. I got scared about releasing the second. I didn't know how. I couldn't afford help. I was too busy just trying to make enough money for bills and groceries. I wasn't sure the first book was strong enough to hold the series.
So this year, I revamped that too. It's currently being finished by my developing editor and off to the proofers. (And yes, thanks to my years of stalling I have the third rewrite of the second book almost ready to go.) I don't have a release date yet for "The Secret of Sentarra" but it will be within the next few months. And the second will go into the publishing process shortly after this time. I promise. For a short time, I've put the story on Wattpad so the readers who bought the first book could read the new version without having to purchase it again. Check it out if you'd like, but do it soon. It's coming down upon publication.
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Swing

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They Watch Us Like the Lions

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Emberling - A Clean Fantasy by Kaytlin Phillips

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My friend, Kaytlin Phillips is releasing the first book of her new trilogy! She has given me an exclusive interview for Ever Ink Press. If you’re curious about what it’s like to be a writer or if you’re looking for a clean book to purchase for a young person in your life, check out Emberling. Thanks, Katilyn for letting me feature you on my site and best of luck with your launch!

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“I'm not sure why we have that [book on weaponry] on the shelves. I'd feel a lot better if we didn't teach our guests a hundred different ways to kill me.”
Lindsey Renee Backen, The Secret of Sentarra

“Safe! Such a colorful, horrible bog of lace and silks as I have hopes of never seeing again! You have proven to be our hero, kind Sir, for indeed, had you not been there to grant the way of escape, I fear we would have certainly met our undoing! With lace underfoot and egos overhead, not even the strongest woman has hope of weathering such a place!”
Lindsey Renee Backen, The Secret of Sentarra

“You know God and Father doesn't. I'd rather be like you.”
Lindsey Renee Backen, The Secret of Sentarra

“You know God and Father doesn't. I'd rather be like you.”
Lindsey Renee Backen, The Secret of Sentarra

“But if there is no God, then who made the knowledge? And if there is no God, then who appoints the kings? I think I must believe there's a God. I cannot rule a country by myself.”
Lindsey Renee Backen, The Secret of Sentarra

“I'm not sure why we have that [book on weaponry] on the shelves. I'd feel a lot better if we didn't teach our guests a hundred different ways to kill me.”
Lindsey Renee Backen, The Secret of Sentarra

“Trust me, dear, with the amount that you read, I guarantee that your eyes will never go bad.”
Lindsey Renee Backen, The Secret of Sentarra

“Safe! Such a colorful, horrible bog of lace and silks as I have hopes of never seeing again! You have proven to be our hero, kind Sir, for indeed, had you not been there to grant the way of escape, I fear we would have certainly met our undoing! With lace underfoot and egos overhead, not even the strongest woman has hope of weathering such a place!”
Lindsey Renee Backen, The Secret of Sentarra




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