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MEET LYNDA RESNICK
by Bonnie O'Brian

What books influenced you most when you were growing up?

Lynda Resnick

Austin, Thomas Hardy, Evelyn Waugh, Proust

When you were a child did you ever have moments when you decided that you were going to be a writer when you grew up?

Actually I thought I would be an artist, funny how life is. I wrote for my work but it wasn’t until my children were grown and my businesses on the right footing that I had the time to explore writing for fun and as a career adjunct.

How soon after that was your first book published?

My first book was published this year and I am in my 60’s.

Was your first book accepted immediately? or did you experience a number of rejections?

Immediately but I have a career as a successful business women so it is different than most writers who actually do just that.

Do you do other types of writing - for example, educational, nonfiction, magazine work?

I write funny articles for the popular press about life and experiences.

What really triggers your imagination?

Just about everything. I have my blinders off and wish to take in as much of life as possible. Life is the inspiration.

How did your life change when you got married? and had children? Did it make it easier or harder to find time to write?

That is a book in itself.

Do you write every day and do you have set hours that you work?

I write every day in my blog and on twitter, in Huffington Post etc. I have ideas about our new world and I am stimulated to write my observations hoping that people will be helped by my thoughts.

Has anyone ever written you a fan letter that you’d like to share?

I get them almost every day and as hard as it was to promote my book and get it sold the rewarding stuff is way I help people on blog. www.rubiesintheorchard.com ask Lynda column

What other jobs you had before you became a writer/illustrator?

I have been in advertising and marketing my whole life and my first book Rubies in the Orchard is about that journey.