Fabulous Feature-Lynn Huggins Blackburn-Covert Justice

Today we welcome author:

Lynn Blackburn

A commenter will win a copy of
Lynn's book:

Covert Justice

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Mary here. I'm so happy to welcome Lynn to Let's Talk. I'm so excited to host a Love Inspired Suspense novelist! These are such exciting reads. Wow! I asked Lynn: how has God led you on your writing journey? Here is what she said: 

Opportunities and Adventures

Thank you so much for having me today!

I’m not one of those people who has been writing since they could hold a pencil. My love affair with books began (and continues) as a reader. I was the kid who never left home without a book. This was never a problem until I got my learner’s permit, slid behind the wheel, looked at my mom and said, “How do I get home?” She banned me from reading in the car until I learned my way around town!

All that reading gave me a great sense of how words should flow and during my school years I never had any trouble with writing assignments. I even had a professor beg me to change my major to English. As a Chemical Engineering student, I politely declined his request. After graduating from Clemson (Go Tigers!) I worked as an engineer for five years before leaving to stay at home with our daughter.

Over the years, I had often played with stories in my head, but it wasn’t until six years after leaving the workforce that an idea refused to leave me alone until I sat down at the computer one night with the thought, “How hard could it be?” It turned out to be so much harder than I thought! While I had an intuitive sense of what worked in a story, I had no clue what it took to write something anyone else would ever want to read. It was another six years before I got “The Call” and experienced the thrill of seeing my name on the spine of a book.

Sometimes friends who know my story will ask me if I regret not changing my major and pursuing writing years ago. I always say no. I don’t believe I missed anything along the way. Looking back, all I see are opportunities and adventures—some fun, some terrifying—that God used to shape me into the person I am now. Someone who loves Story, who savors a beautifully crafted sentence, and whose only regret about writing is that it seriously cuts into her reading time!

God’s hand has been on me every step of the way and His timing is perfect. The things we see as detours or dead ends are just plot twists in the story He is writing for us, and He writes the BEST stories.

I’m loving this chapter of my life. It’s certainly one I never could have imagined—and I have a pretty good imagination!

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Lynn Huggins Blackburn believes in the power of stories, especially those that remind us that true love exists, a gift from the Truest Love. She’s passionate about CrossFit, coffee, and chocolate (don’t make her choose) and experimenting with recipes that feed both body and soul. She lives in South Carolina with her true love, Brian, and their three children. Her first book, Covert Justice, won the 2016 Selah Award for Mystery and Suspense. 

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Covert Justice

When a woman drags Blake Harrison out of his wrecked car, he knows the mysterious stranger has saved his life. But more shocking than the hit-and-run is the news that a crime cartel has infiltrated his factory. There's a fortune to be made by tampering with the factory's products…but only if Blake is out of the way. Undercover FBI agent Heidi Zimmerman has two goals—catch the criminals in the act, and keep Blake alive. Falling for the single dad and his adorable daughter isn't in the plan. But everything changes when an abduction leaves Heidi face-to-face with a killer, revealing the danger that's been hiding in plain sight all along…

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