![]() ![]() They gave her the courage to put the stories in her head on paper. And as far as she was concerned, ordinary people did not write fiction.Įverything changed when she discovered Star Trek fanzines. ![]() From her point of view, she was far too ordinary. In the beginning, she couldn’t imagine writing fiction on a professional level. Lorna Barrett did not set out to become a published author. The issue doesn’t necessarily keep Barrett up at night, though she will be the first to tell you that she is more of a ‘Glass Half Empty’ person. She doesn’t have a job unless her audience buys her novels. Her future is in the hands of her readers. That being said, she cannot ignore the fact that she doesn’t have any job security. She can work on her own schedule and she doesn’t have to worry about commuting. As a full-time writer, the author loves the fact that she doesn’t have a day job. This issue tends to enhance Barrett’s concerns about the future of her career. ![]() But on occasion, she worries that the success enjoyed by one pen name won’t translate into additional success for the other pen names because some of her readers do not realize that Lorna, Lorraine, and L.L. Bartlett writes the Jeff Resnick Mysteries.īarrett juggles all her pen names with relative ease. While Lorna Barrett is primarily known for the Booktown mysteries, Lorraine Bartlett is typically associated with the Victoria Square Mysteries. ![]()
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