About Kaye Lynne Booth
Kaye Lynne Booth is a freelance writer, editor, multi-genre author and independent publisher. She holds dual MFA in Creative Writing – Genre Fiction and Screenwriting, and an M.A. in Publishing. To earn her publishing degree, she worked under the mentoring of International Bestselling author, Kevin J. Anderson on the Gilded Glass: Twisted Myths & Shattered Fairy Tales editorial team from Western State Colorado University and WordFire Press and she compiled and edited Weird Tales: The Best of the Early Years 1926-27, under Jonathan Maberry.
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How I Got Here
Kaye Lynne Booth 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 Book 1 of her Women in the West Adventure Series. Sarah: Book 2 scheduled for release May 7, 2024.)
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, publishing two novels, Delilah and The Rock Star & The Outlaw, her poetry collection, Small Wonders, a poetry anthology, Poetry treasures 3: Passions, and an anthology of weird & creepy stories, Midnight Roost in 2023.
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. In addition, her dark fairy tale, “The Story Witch”, is featured in the Once Upon an Ever After anthology; her modern original fairy tale, “The Not So Perfect Prince” and a reprint of her crime romance story “The Devil Made Her Do It” are featured in Refracted Reflections anthology; a reprint of her dystopian story, “If You’re Happy and You Know It” is featured in the Visions anthology; and her dark fantasy story, “Melina” is featured in then Midnight Roost 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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