Oh, look, you’ve found the ‘about me’ section! I’m assuming you’ve landed here because you’re curious about the lady behind the crazy. Well, allow me to assure you I do my very best to live up to the rumors. I craft stories that land on the ‘darker’ end of fiction. Here you’ll find hometown horrors, small-town psychological thrillers and a healthy dose of suspense to keep you turning pages. But how did we get here, anyway?
My name is Lynsey Farnsworth. Yes, that is my real last name. No, I am not related to Professor Farnsworth from Futurama. I grew up with hot and sticky southeast summers and a library within walking distance of my house. According to my parents (who are arguably unreliable narrators of their own), I’ve loved books for pretty much my entire existence. A full year before learning to speak in sentences I knew how to ask someone to read me a story. My parents did their best to push me towards sports and athletics, but I was always the smallest (and nerdiest) kid in class, so their dreams went unrecognized. Instead, I started penning stories in fourth grade. I was the only girl in sixth grade to join Battle of the Books. I read and wrote incessantly, devouring my mother’s stack of Stephen King books before reaching high school.
During the beginning of my adulthood years, I made the mistake of listening to the naysayers. “Writing isn’t a real job!” they’d remind me. And so, after moving to a small town nestled in the mountains of Arizona, I enrolled in the local community college to nurture my other love: psychology. I continued to scribble stories in my free time, even declaring a minor in creative writing. By junior year, my minor became my major. I moved back east and transferred to another school, this time for a B.A. in English with a concentration in fiction writing.
I worked a slew of strange jobs to support myself through school. I worked in movie theaters, retail stores, wine bars, and restaurants. I took positions as a tutor and nanny. I worked tech-support in a call-center where most customers seemed brand new to the Internet. No matter what the position, I found myself daydreaming about my next short story or outlining a novel.
A lot has changed since then. I completed a cross-country move or two, had a couple of kids, and met all sorts of interesting people to use for character inspiration. I left the odd jobs to work in my field, primarily writing and editing. I tried out a few pen names, read a thousand more books, and wrote a few more of my own.
You can still find me wandering around the humid southern states, mostly because I’m not a fan of snow. My days are generally divided between time spent with my little monsters and time locked in my office slaving away over my novels. When I’m not writing or revising, I’m often curled up with a book, working on my textile crafts, or reading up on the latest political news.
Madly Lynsey 