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Lynn Lamb has just published the second book in her Opus of the Dead series, Dissonance of the Dead . The sequel to Lullaby of the Dead , the latest novel features characters from that universe as they journey beyond the haunted house they’ve been occupying – some of them for centuries. They have much to learn about modern ways of living. Tell us a little about some of the characters in the series. We’re continuing on with a few of the characters from the previous book. Landry Sinclair, the narrator of the series, has grown a lot since the beginning of Lullaby of the Dead . She has emerged as being much more conscious of her personal foibles in her dead state than she was when she was alive. We also have Topanga, her love interest, who is important as the mentor of the group. Now he is trying to grow the gifts of those who have left Nashton House and help them find their true selves. He is very much still the instructor. He knows how the world works outside the milieu o...

Lynn Lamb 's Mechaniclism - available at Amazon - opens with the birth of one of its characters, and describes the poor lot she has received in life. With a severe immune deficiency, Ireland Barton's life will be spent in a bubble of dustless, filtered air to prevent microbial infection and probable death. Her over-protective loving father ensures her sheltered existence. She has a hazmat suit but she spends the vast majority of her life in her room, studying, reading books and learning about the outside world via the Internet. She attains a degree via distance learning, and a PhD at twenty-six. Her scientific background gives her the skills to take on the challenge of a pandemic when it strikes - an illness that appears to wipe out the vast majority of humanity in a number of weeks. (And we can only assume the worst as international communications break down.) Four centuries earlier, clockmaker Frederick Jori finds a patron in Lord August Godwine, who - it tran...

Lullaby of the Dead by Lynn Lamb, available at Amazon , features a big cast of characters from both the living and the dead. Landry Sinclair is in effect a ball-busting corporate down-sizer, keen to distance herself from her dirty work. She has to meet a quota at her department, and - although she's not happy about it - relieves near-retirees of their positions, often at a distance. A thorn in her side is one of the QBs (or cubicle workers), an ambitious and manipulative slacker whom she would remove if he wasn't quite so good at corporate politics. Next, t he entire office is investigated for murder. Her slacker underling sleeps with her after this tragedy at the workplace. And, as it was Landry who found the body, she falls under suspicion. What could have been an industrial espionage / corporate thriller type novel suddenly shifts focus to turn the book into a ghost story, where we meet a host of spirits who can observe the murderous goings-on of the psychopath respo...

10 Questions with Lynn Lamb   Lynn Lamb lives in Monterey, California. Lynn’s series of post-apocalyptic novels, The Survivor Diaries, feature a flawed heroine leading a group of villagers after a nuclear holocaust. She writes other work of a sci fi, horror, and dark fantasy nature. She is also pretty nifty with video camera technologies. 1 How and when did you start writing? I have written since I was eleven-years-old in one way or another. I studied film writing in college and only began writing novels in the last three years. 2 Who is your favorite character from someone else’s work, in any medium (movies, games, books, etc)? I love Claire Fraser from the Outlander series. She is strong, outspoken, and brave. It is important to me to have sheroes in my writing—no damsels in distress in my books, nor in those I read and enjoy. 3 Do you write film scripts? Have you considered scripting your novels? Do you feel that your work is “filmic” given your background – an...