Sunday 20 April 2014

Lindsay Merbaum Is A Novelist Extraordinaire

By Essie Osborn


Writing is her passion. She breathes, eats, sleeps, and lives for writing wonderful novels and making them a part of the daily life of people. Reading her wonderful novels will keep you asking and wondering. You can never put down a book when the author is no other than, Lindsay Merbaum.

Lindsay grew up in the East Coast and began her passion for books at an early age. She is an editor, content writer for famous online book blogs and sites and a fiction novelist by heart. She also has a passion for travelling different places and learning their culture. She was awarded a scholarship for the Disquiet International Literary Program. And allowed her to travel in Lisbon in the year two thousand twelve.

She earned her Masters Degree in Fine Arts at Brooklyn College. She was also a recipient of the Himan Brown Award in the same college. Himan Brown Award winners were determined through a writing competition, which first started in 2005. Lindsay was one of the first receivers of the award. Himan Brown, an influential radio producer founded the awards himself.

Enrolling in the Masters Program of the Fine Arts Department in Brooklyn allows you to understand the importance of faculty and student collaboration. It is a small and highly personal program that gathers degree holders in Fine Arts. Those who majored in fiction, playwriting and poetry can enroll in the program for two years. They offer workshops, tutorials and seminars to students.

Lindsay, a known fiction writer is also an ex teacher. For four years, she taught English composition at a University in Quito, Ecuador. She wants to gain new experience and loves to travel so she grabbed the chance of living in the foreign country.

In 2010, she left Ecuador ad relocated to California. Some of her stories have appeared in a number of magazines and journals, such as the Epiphany, Gargoyle, PANK, The Collagist, and Dzanc Books Best of the Web. Her masterpiece has also been nominated for a story South Award, and for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories series.

She considers herself a highly social introvert. She grows from the covers of books she was reading when she was young, in the East Coast. Her number one love interest is fiction writing. She also enjoys listening to jazz music. During her past time when she is not creating stories, she loves to cook. She is also a wanderer by heart and into literature.

Lindsay is now a permanent resident of San Francisco. She lives with her husband, whom she says, have to put up with her busy schedule writing her new novel, The Wailing Room. The story is set in a New York City Hotel. And revolves around the character of Clymentera, a beautiful and mysterious employee in the hotel with a dual personality. It also depicts the story of three hotel guests with dark pasts and painful secrets.

She loves writing novels with a suspense thriller theme. She feels her blood pumping wild while writing challenging and mysterious stories. She also gets inspiration from travelling in different places around the globe. She plans to travel again and learn different cultures. But, that would have to wait. She has a story to finish. Creating stories will always be with her. And even when she is old enough to have grandkids, she will still be writing.




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