Brenna D Lyons | Red Room Writer Profile

Brenna Lyons wears many hats, sometimes all on the same day: president of EPIC, author of more than 75 published works, columnist, special needs teacher, wife, mother... In addition, she’s a member in good standing of ERWA, TELL, MWW, RWU, WPM, IWOFA and Broad Universe.
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See my list of favorite authors. It reads very similarly to my list of influences.

Dark Hunters/Were Hunters/Dream Hunters series, Carpathians/Dark series, Harry Potter, DeMarco series, Celta series, IT, The Stand, The Dark Half, Snow Queen/Summer Queen, Titan/Wizard Demon, Belgariad and Mellorian and prequels, Incarnations of Immortality series, Dayspring series, Linda Bleser's brokos, The Vassal of El, Lady of the Knife, Starquest series, Oath series, Enforcers/Time Cops/Warlords series, Billibub Baddings, Morevi series, Hitchhiker's Guide series, A Handmaid's Tale, Stoker's Dracula, Shelley's Frankenstein, Job: A Comedy of Justice, Only Begotten Daughter, Towing Jehova, Black Beauty, The Collected Works of Poe...

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Christine Feehan, Elaine Corvidae, Jane Graves, Robin Owens, Stephen King, John Saul, Joan Vinge, John Varley, David and Leigh Eddings, Piers Anthony, Margaret Carter, Jeff Strand, Gloria Oliver, Kate Douglas, Angela Knight, ML Rhodes, Tee Morris, Margaret Atwood, Myra Nour, Rowena Cherry, Elizabeth K. Burton, Karen Harbaugh, Douglas Adams, Robert Heinlein, James Morrow, Edgar Allen Poe...and many more.

Actually, I'm waiting for the three books I have on pre-order to come in, at the moment. Those would be the new Sherrilyn Kenyon books set to release between now and April.

Connections

Finally! NY publishing has embraced the revolution!
November 11, 2009
- Once upon a time in e-publishing, there were the indies. Well, they still exist, and they rock. These people came in and did it right. They turn on a dime, adapting to the freshest voices and subgenres of work available, work that scares the marketing folks in NY to death and back. They offered no advances but much higher royalty rates than the conglomerates did. They created the markets, and the ...
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Writing the villain-hero or the likable bad guy!
October 6, 2009
- Turning good guys to bad and vice versa or writing characters that are a hearty mix of both has always been a favorite pastime of mine. People were convinced Ty was the hero of TYGERS until about 4 scenes in, when I turned the tables and showed them a 4 y/o boy's best friend was a psychopath instead of his hero, which completely freaked one reviewer for a few chapters. OTOH, Mik, Jorg/Veriel, and ...
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CONTEST time!
October 1, 2009
- It's my birthday month, which means fun for me all month long. I'll be doing chats, interviews, running contests... It's my one all-out month every year, and I don't forget my readers, in the process Stella Cameron's yearly Scarlet Boa Contest is up and running. This year's theme is "Introducing a Paranormal World." Readers get a taste of upcoming books...or ones already out, and they ...
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