Monday, April 21, 2014

Lindsay Merbaum Is A Novelist Extraordinaire

By Essie Osborn


A writer will always be a writer. She is in love with words and stories. She will always be creating wonderful novels that will captivate you. Lindsay Merbaum is a writer extraordinaire. She is one passionate writer who lives and breathe poetry, words and literature. She is one inspiring work of art.

Lindsay grew up in the East Coast and began her passion for books at an early age. She is an editor, content writer for famous online book blogs and sites and a fiction novelist by heart. She also has a passion for travelling different places and learning their culture. She was awarded a scholarship for the Disquiet International Literary Program. And allowed her to travel in Lisbon in the year two thousand twelve.

In the year 2005, she was honored to receive the Himan Brown Award for Fiction from Brooklyn College. Himan Brown was one of the most influential producers in radio history. A writing competition was held in the fall was open to all playwrights and fiction writers enrolled in the Brooklyn College Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Lindsay was one of the few pioneer winners of the First Himan Brown Awards in 2005.

Enrolling in the Masters Program of the Fine Arts Department in Brooklyn allows you to understand the importance of faculty and student collaboration. It is a small and highly personal program that gathers degree holders in Fine Arts. Those who majored in fiction, playwriting and poetry can enroll in the program for two years. They offer workshops, tutorials and seminars to students.

The famous writer was also a teacher. She was living in Quito, Ecuador where she works as an English composition teacher at a University. She is fond of travelling and want to gain teaching experience. She lived in Ecuador for four years.

She left Ecuador in 2010, and transferred to California. And started to write again. Some of her masterpieces were nominated in some award giving bodies for story writing like story South Award, and Best American Short stories series. Her works were featured in magazines like, The Gargoyle, Collagist, PANK and the Epiphany, to name a few.

She grew up reading books while living on the East Coast. She sees herself as an introvert who chooses to be in a company of two or three friends, than a large group of people. Aside from writing fiction, she also listens to jazz music, and enjoys cooking if she is not busy creating novels.

Lindsay is now a permanent resident of San Francisco. She lives with her husband, whom she says, have to put up with her busy schedule writing her new novel, The Wailing Room. The story is set in a New York City Hotel. And revolves around the character of Clymentera, a beautiful and mysterious employee in the hotel with a dual personality. It also depicts the story of three hotel guests with dark pasts and painful secrets.

The novels and short stories she makes are suspense thriller fictions. She finds it challenging and dark to write stories with the edgy, mysterious theme. She also writes stories that she found inspiration from her travels around the world. Writing will always be in her veins. She sees herself after two decades from now, still writing wonderful stories. She has plans to travel the world and discovering new things again. But, she just cannot put down the new novel she is creating right now.




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