Friday Join Barbara Montjoy aka Lyndi Alexander as she visits and talks about Who She was Before #MFRWAuthor #Family experiences #Science fiction #fantasy #Suspense

 1. What were you before you became an author? Did this influence your choices as a writer? 

I've been a pizza maker, waitress, floral designer, lawyer, and mother to seven (and plenty of others who passed through).  My family experiences definitely have impacted my writing more than everything. My heroines almost always are in the process of creating their own family from those around them who need love and support.

 

2. Are you genre specific or general? I don’t mean major genres but subdivisions or romance, mystery or paranormal.

I actually do cross the major genres. I write sci-fi and fantasy as Lyndi Alexander and romance and suspense as Alana Lorens. I'm not a formulaic writer--I know some writers have the "romance trope" down to a T and can drop one of those every few months. I really prefer to begin with an idea and expand it into a story, then discover if it's going to be "out there" or a love story or something inbetween.

 

3. What is your latest release?

In June, SIXSHOOTER comes out from Dragonfly Publishing. It's the story of a spaceship captain, and a cowboy, and an alien who's genderfluid and loves them both...in all the ways.

Valeni Pascual wants to be free to make a living hauling cargo with her spaceship and to understand the shapeshifting alien who presents sometimes as the steamy male Nik and other times as the blonde bombshell Nikki.

As a rebel insurgence builds against the oppressive government known as the Agency, Valeni and Nik/Nikki encounter a sexy Terran cowboy named Garrett Rawls. Since being pulled into this region of space by another mysterious wormhole, Garrett has looked for a way to return to Earth. After meeting Valeni and Nikki, he might have found something worth staying for.

 However, dark forces may have a much bigger picture in mind for all of them. Valeni, Nik/Nikki, and Garrett are pulled into a life and death fight that lays bare all of their secrets and their desires. Will they lose everything as the battle against the Agency rages around them or can love pull them through?

SIXSHOOTER [©2021] A Horizon Crossover series novel by Lyndi Alexander | Cover Art by Kat Hardy | Science Fiction Romance (R) 280 pages / 100,000 words | Available in ebook and print from the DFP Books label of Dragonfly Publishing

 

4. What are you working on now?

I'm finishing a historical romance with pirates set in Key West in 1898, during the Spanish American War. While that's wrapping up with my excellent critique group, I've started a thriiller about a criminal defense attorney who crosses the wrong person in Miami.

 

5. Does your reading choices influence your choice of a writing career?

Probably. When I was younger, I devoured gothic romance. Never really enjoyed the Harlequin type books, because they were predictable. So most of my romance has a dark, suspenseful; side to it. But Science Fiction has always been a favorite. At this stage, if I take time off writing to read, it will probably be sci-fi. (and NOT Syfy. Ugh.)

 

6. Where can we find you?

Author Bio

 

Lyndi Alexander always dreamed of faraway worlds and interesting alien contacts. She lives as a post-modern hippie in Asheville, North Carolina, a single mother of her last child of seven, a daughter on the autism spectrum, finding that every day feels a lot like first contact with a new species.

 

Author Links

Website  and Blog         https://lyndialexander.wordpress.com/

Facebook                      https://www.facebook.com/lyndialexander13/

Goodreads                    https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4185290.Lyndi_Alexander

Amazon Author Page

https://www.amazon.com/Lyndi-Alexander/e/B005GDYPU2/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

Bookbub:                      https://www.bookbub.com/profile/lyndi-alexander

Smashwords | Lyndi Alexander    https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/lyndialexander