About
My name is Lynne Sturtevant. I’m an award-winning writer obsessed with experiencing new places whether they’re down the street, on the other side of the world, or hidden in the landscape of dreams and imagination.
I am also a time traveler. I love digging into the past, especially when there’s a whiff of an old mystery or secret in the air.
Writing and travel have one thing in common: The possibility of something intriguing just over the horizon.
When I was 12 years old, I boarded a plane for the first leg of a journey that took me from a quiet small town in Ohio to noisy, exotic Manila. The time I spent in Asia opened my mind and stimulated my imagination. It also changed the trajectory of my life.
After college and a stint in state government, I stopped trying to resist my wanderlust. I became an entry-level travel agent pounding an airline computer and booking Disney World vacations. It was quite a ride and before all was said and done, I owned a successful agency in the heart of Washington, DC.
In 2005, my husband and I moved to the small town of Marietta, Ohio where I opened my own tour and events company. Over the next several years, I developed dozens of successful programs as well as a few that bombed.
My tours and events were so popular, I attracted the attention of The History Press. I wrote two books for them. Haunted Marietta: History and Mystery in Ohio’s Oldest City and A Guide to Historic Marietta, Ohio are available on Amazon.
In 2016, we moved to Albuquerque. It was one of the best decisions we ever made. I blog and post pictures of my adventures in the Land of Enchantment at Hidden New Mexico.
New Mexico is the perfect creative enviornment for me. I’ve been writing up a storm since I arrived. I recently published a series of how-to books. Create Successful Walking Tours, The Collaboration Kit, and Hometown: Writing a Local History or Travel Guide are available on Amazon.
I also launched a contemporary fantasy series called the Off-Kilter Chronicles featuring Ginger Stewart. Fiftyish, blue collar, overweight, and snarky, Ginger is not a typical fantasy heroine. In Book One, The Good Neighbors, she tangles with a troop of despicable Celtic fairies running amok in the hills of West Virginia. Book Two, The Ghost of Walker’s Gap, is the tale of a doomed artist set against a backdrop of Appalachian legends and folk magic. The series is available on Amazon.
Book Three of the Off-Kilter Chronicles is in the works. Weird things are happening in Goblin Holler, West Virginia. Mysterious lights flicker deep in the forest. Underground knocking emanates from sealed coal mines. Even the crows roosting on the ridgetops and the bees swarming in the abandonned orchards seem agitated. When a wealthy woman swoops in with plans to transform the holler into an upscale resort, the disruptions go from odd to frightening. Ginger’s elderly home care clients, the holler’s last residents, suspect Agnes Truitt, a legendary witch who hexed the holler more than a century earlier, is to blame.
Watch this space!