Lynn Rankin-Esquer

I'm a California girl (transplanted from Pennsylvania via North Carolina). Well, girl might be stretching it, I'm a mom (two kids out of the nest), a baseball coach’s wife, a runner (slogger is more like it, I jog very slowly), an obsessed pickleballer, and a lapsed cook. My whole world lit up the second I deciphered Fun With Dick and Jane, and it has never dimmed. I am endlessly enthralled with how stories come out of someone’s head into my hands then into my head. Every book feels like it is enchanted. I love the beach, Lemonheads, and baseball. I've sampled several professions including psychologist, college professor, rat lab tech and waitress (not in that order). And these days, I am a writer, taking pieces of everything I know and love and putting them together in one place. Sometimes that place is imaginary (my novels) and sometimes that place is my twist on the real world (my blog). It is a most delicious way to live life, playing with words, occasionally glimpsing magic.

Previous books:

The Unmooring of Mrs. Mango is about a 60 something year old woman stumbling thru life with her husband, 4 kids, pets, nosy neighbors, religious authorities, and odd strangers. When her daughter announces she is gay, Mrs. Mango's life is disrupted and she is forced to confront her own 50 year old secret, discovering everything she knew about love (and sex), was wrong.

My Paperback Cape is a sort of support letter to my teenage self. Jacqueline is not me and the things that happen to her did not happen to me but the feelings she had, the sense of loneliness, helplessness, fear, those all did happen to me and I would have welcomed a story about someone who found the heroic side of herself. And who did it without the help of any adults.

2014 San Francisco Writers Conference Finalist

Kindle Book Review 2014 Kindle Book Awards Semifinalist

Murder, Mess, and the Tangerine Dress: An Order Out of Chaos Mystery Book 1 is the culmination of a lifetime dream of writing a mystery series, since I have consumed too many of them to count. Joining the Agatha Christie's of the world is a pinch me moment!