Lynn Abbey

Marilyn Lorraine Abbey (born September 18, 1948), better known as Lynn Abbey, is an author and computer programmer.

Biography
Abbey was born in Peekskill, New York. She attended thethe University of Rochester, where she earned a A.B. and an M.A. in European history, before shiftign her focus to computer programming. She became interested in science fiction during her first marraige.

She worked as a programmer for insurance companies, assisting with the task force documenting the New York City bankruptcy crisis. Afterword, she moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Abbey was injured in a car accident in January 1977, while picking up Gordon R. Dickson, who was to be Guest of Honor at ConFusion that year. Guilt-ridden, Dickson assisted Abbey by reading and critiquing her writing, which she had been working on since childhood but had never released. That manuscript was published in 1979 as Daughter of the Bright Moon.

Abbey married the editor of the Thieves World books, to which she has contributed a short story "The Face of Chaos". She became his co-editor, and contributed to other shared world eries through the 1980s and early 90s, including the two Ultima Saga books, The Forge of Virtue and The Temper of Wisdom.

Following her divorce, Abbey moved to Oklahoma City. She begain writing for TSR in 1994 while continuing to write to her own novels and editing anthologies. In addition to short stories set in the Forgottom Realms and Dark Sun settings, Abbey wrote three novels for the Dark Sun setting, The Brazen Gambit, The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King and Cinnabar Shadows.

She moved to Leesburg Florida in 1997, where she still lives. In 2002, Abbey returned to the Thieves World with her novel Sanctuary.

Together with her friends, fellow authors, and co-editors C.J Cherryh and Jane Fancher, Abbey formed Closed Circle Books in 2009. It is from this digital storefront that you can order phycial and electronic books from these three writers. In addition to new, original novels, they also "rescue" their books that have been out of print, giving them new cover art and re-editing the books to meet their own professional quality.