Lyndi Alexander

Who are you? I’m many people, actually—a daughter, a mother (of 7!), a pizza maker, a floral designer, a newspaper reporter, a lawyer, and now a novelist. Just depends where you caught me in my development period.

What genre/s do you write in? My first published novel, THE ELF QUEEN, was in urban fantasy, but I’m starting to write more in my first love, science fiction, and I’ve written a paranormal mystery. I also write romantic suspense and contemporary romance under the pseudonym Alana Lorens.

Why do you write? How can I not?

Planner or Pantser? Used to be a pantser while I was writing to get published for the first time. In 2012, I had six novels released by publishing houses, and I have six coming out in 2013, with more already contracted for the years beyond. I can’t afford to pants anymore—this is a real business now.

Where can we find you?
Lyndi Alexander and Her Worlds of Fancy
Clan Elves of the Bitterroot
Facebook: Clan Elves of the Bitterroot
Twitter: none - no time for this when I’m writing so much

Upcoming releases? In March 2013, book four of the Clan Elves series, THE ELF GUARDIAN, will be released, as well as the first book of the Horizon Crossover series, HORIZON SHIFT, both from Dragonfly Publishing. I’m really looking forward to the debut of A SMALL DEGREE OF HOPE, my sci-fi, police procedural, reptile shapeshifter romance, hopefully by summer 2013.

What are you working on now? I'm finishing edits on a voodoo romance story set at Mardi Gras and also on WINDMILLS, the first book in my YA post-apocalyptic trilogy due out later this year. When I get tired of edits, I’m working on the first draft of a ménage sci-fi story with a shapeshifting alien that changes gender depending on which partner he/she’s with.

Personal Bio: Lyndi Alexander (aka Barbara Mountjoy) has been a published writer for over 35 years, including seven years as a reporter and editor at the South Dade News Leader in Homestead, Florida. She and her husband share seven children and eleven computers in a full house in northwestern Pennsylvania.

She writes science fiction and urban fantasy; her Clan Elves of the Bitterroot series (as Lyndi Alexander) is available from Dragonfly Publishing. Her reptile shapeshifter/police procedural/sci-fi romance A SMALL DEGREE OF HOPE debuts in 2013 from Lyrical Press. She blogs on a variety of subjects, including autism, science fiction and life at Awalkabout.

Featured Publication: Horizon Shift

Horizon Shift - Lyndi Alexander

When Captain Temms Rogers of the Confederation spaceship Doubtful disobeys orders to attack innocent civilians, he and his crew become hunted rebels. In the midst of a desperate space battle, they risk using an experimental alien device that opens a wormhole which hurls them into a new universe.

A science fiction novel, available from Amazon and B&N.

Further information about Lyndi Alexander can be found here.

Featured Publication: Love Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

Love Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - Lyndi Alexander

Running away isn’t necessarily the answer.

In her mad rush to escape a failed marriage, Sara Woods takes the first job available and lands in the middle of a mystery. Her first assignment as a news reporter for the Ralston Courier is the investigation of a string of deaths, all young women, all her age.

She becomes a patient at the Goldstone Clinic, a local mecca of healing, to deal with chronic pain from her past. But all is not as it seems at the Goldstone, its doctors and nurses are all the picture of perfect beauty and health. Patients at the clinic first seem to get better, then they deteriorate. Sara enlists the help of Dr. Rick Paulsen, who teaches her how to access her internal power, skills she never knew she had, revealing secrets from her past. Police officer Brendon Zale also takes an interest in Sara, but he acts like a stalker, watching her every move, and he won't leave her alone.

As she digs deeper into the story, and more young women die without explanation, she tries to choose allies wisely, but not till the last confrontation does she discover the identity of her true enemy.

By then, it’s too late.

A paranormal futuristic novel, available from Amazon and B&N.

Further information about Lyndi Alexander can be found here.

Featured Publication: Triad

Triad - Lyndi Alexander

On the planet Induna, Trezanna Len leads the Solarii, a small colony of beings, human and otherwise, who believe in the right to pursue a peaceful life free from interference from others. She’d never intended to be the one people counted on, but after she’d been dismissed from her unit at Space Force, she’d drifted along till she found this place mostly populated with travelers from the Terran Diaspora. She’d been welcomed and made comfortable; now she believes the Solarii should do the same for others seeking shelter.

Of course, no situation is free from trouble. The thorn in Trezanna’s side is another group on the neighboring planet Miramar: Dragonfleet. Always contentious, this group has become even more aggressive after Estrella Drake’s ambitious climb to power. The unbalanced and self-centered Estrella has lost many of the former Dragonfleet members disillusioned with her petulant rule, including an organized splinter faction called the Khimeyr, who left five years ago.

Trezanna has been able to tolerate Estrella’s little incursions into her space, marking them up to the price to co-exist. The exercise keeps her pilots and fighters in good practice. This turns out to be a blessing when the well-armed Arkosian space pirates decide they’d like to take the sector that includes both Miramar and Induna. But Trezanna’s Solarii cannot handle this attack on their own.

The last time the pirates entered this area of space, Dragonfleet and the Solarii stood together to repel them, but that’s when cooler heads ruled at Miramar.

Help comes from a most unexpected source, but one with its own hidden agendas. Three women, Trezanna, Estrella and Catava Rolon, must work out their differences if they are to defeat the pirates and survive.

A science fiction novel available from Amazon and B&N.

Further information about Lyndi Alexander can be found here.

Featured Publication: The Elf Guardian

The Elf Guardian - Lyndi Alexander

The strong Earth energies that support the Clan Elves of the Bitterroot have gone awry for unknown reasons, and the powerful forces at work have not gone unnoticed by the outside world. When a paranormal investigator looking for a story to save her career is told a fantastic tale by the juvenile and disobedient elf prince Elliun, his young albino elf bodyguard Max must try to fix the mistake. Can Max get humans, mages, and elves working together in time to save the land before the energies spin out of control? Or is this the end of the elven world in the Bitterroot Mountains?

A fantasy novel, available from Amazon and B&N.

Further information about Lyndi Alexander can be found here.

Featured Publication: The Elf Mage

The Elf Mage - Lyndi Alexander

Twenty-five years ago, Daven Talvi chose to serve the Bitterroot Elf Clan by allowing its Circle of Elders to send him and a few other warriors into suspended animation until their queen could be rescued. In doing so, he gave up his mate and his newborn son, sacrificing his own life for that of the clan. It had been a mistake. With the clan now in chaos and a new young queen in hiding, Daven must acknowledge his own errors and take responsibility to set things right. He teams up with Lane Donatelli, a human who has too long used food and computer gaming to feed his insecurities. Together, they use Lane’s technology with Daven’s innate magical abilities to wage battle against the evil elf mages threatening the clan.

A fantasy novel, available from Amazon and B&N.

Further information about Lyndi Alexander can be found here.

Featured Publication: The Elf Child

The Elf Child - Lyndi Alexander

The moment Astan Hawk accepts his clan's challenge to protect the young Elf Queen Jelani, trouble dogs his heels. Jelani's human upbringing clashes with clan tradition, spurring dangerous intrigues within the Circle of Elders. Soon even the motives of Astan's father, Daven, come into question. With nowhere else to turn within the clan, Astan has no choice but to ask Jelani's human friends for help. But paranoid hermit Crispy, empathetic social worker Iris, and computer whiz Lane complicate Jelani's unexpected pregnancy and her attempts to rule the clan. And hiding in shadows, outcast Grigor Biren plots revenge for the loss of his mentor by seeking the help of powerful elf mages who live deep within the forest. Can Astan fulfill his promise to keep Jelani safe when the whole world seems to have turned against them?

A fantasy novel, available from Amazon and B&N.

Further information about Lyndi Alexander can be found here.

Featured Publication: The Elf Queen

The Elf Queen - Lyndi Alexander

At her friend's coaxing, Jelani tries on a real glass slipper left lying on the sidewalk. When she steps into the shoe it shatters, cutting her foot. As blood trickles to the pavement and mingles with the broken glass, dozens of two-inch high creatures emerge and then scurry away into the shadows. As if that was not bizarre enough, soon she is approached by two mysterious and very handsome men claiming (of all things) to be elves who need Jelani's help to rescue their queen. More revelations come, threatening to unravel the life of this sassy barista from Missoula, Montana. Jelani must come to grips with the idea that elves are not just creatures from a fairy tale. They are alive and living in the forests of the Bitterroot Mountains....

A fantasy novel, available from Amazon and B&N.

Further information about Lyndi Alexander can be found here.