About Kaye Lynne Booth
Kaye Lynne Booth is a freelance writer, editor, and multi-genre author. She holds dual MFA in Creative Writing – Genre Fiction and Screenwriting, and is finishing up an M.A. in Publishing. To earn her publishing degree, she is working under the mentoring of Kevin J. Anderson on the Gilded Glass: Twisted Myths & Shattered Fairy Tales editorial team from Western State Colorado University and WordFire Press and compiling and editing Weird Tales: The Best of the Early Years 1926-27, under Jonathan Maberry.
How I Got Here
She has been writing content here, on Writing to be Read since 2010, including book reviews, author interviews and reflections on writing. Her first novel, Delilah, was published by Dusty Saddles Publishing in 2016. (Recently re-released as a part of her Women in the West Adventure Series.)
In 2019, she founded WordCrafter Quality Writing & Author Services and WordCrafter Press and now publishes her own books and anthologies, as well as the work of others, and recently merged her website here. Kaye Lynne publishes wide through Draft2Digital, and her short story collection, Last Call and Other Short Fiction and her paranormal mystery novella, Hidden Secrets are all available from your favorite book distributor through Books2Read.
Her paranormal short, “Woman in the Water” is included in the Whispers of the Past anthology, her paranormal western story, “Don’t Eat the Pickled Eggs”, is included in the Spirits of the West anthology, and her paranormal story, “The People Upstairs”, is included in the Where Spirits Linger anthology, all of which, she compiled and edited for WordCrafter Press.
Kaye Lynne also has short fiction published on Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, and Across the Margin. Her flash fiction story, “The Haunting of Carols Woods” is featured in Dan Alatorre’s horror anthology, Nightmareland, and her short fiction stories “If You’re Happy and You Know It” is featured in The Collapsar Directive (August 1, 2017) & “The Devil Made Her Do It” is featured in Relationship Add Vice (December 15, 2017), both published by Zombie Pirates Publishing.
She also has poetry published in Manifest West #5: Serenity and Severity (2016), and Colorado Life Magazine (September/October 2016 & July/August 2018).
I Bet You Didn’t Know…
I graduated with a duel empahsis (genre fiction & screenwriting) M.F.A. from Western Colorado State University in 2016. I went back to Western and got a M.A. in publishing, which I completed in 2022
I started Writing to be Read in 2010. Prior to that, and afer for several years, I served as the Southern Colorado Literature Examiner, where I met many authors and poets, most virtually, as I launched my own writing career.
I have reviewed more than 800 books, audiobooks, and movies.
I have interviewed over 300 authors, both renowned and rising stars.
WordCrafter Press has hosted and produced two vitual writing conferences featuring over 30 different authors.
My poem “Intimacy and the Harliquin Dance” was featured in part, in the painting by Mitch Brown, “Intimacy”. It was displayed at the Keliedescope Gallery, in Battle Sea Park, in London until it’s sale in 201o.
In 2019, I served as a Spur Award judge for the western romance category for the Western Writers of America.
I compiled and edited Weird Tales: Best of the Early Years 1926-27 with Jonathan Maberry, and served on the editing team for Gilded Glass: Twisted Myths & Shattered Fairy Tales, under Kevin J. Anderson, WordFire Press, and Western Colorado State University.
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