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Book Signing

Apr.08.2011
Book Signing

Book signing at Indigo, Toronto Eaton Centre.

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Lynda's Latest Blogs

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Apr.08.2011 - 2:12 pm
Is there life outside the pages?
I was recently asked to write a feature for the Book Club Queen newsletter, Life Between My Pages. I'm posting the piece as a blog entry here, or you can visit the site, (http://...
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Mar.16.2011 - 8:08 am
Profanity - A Literary Tool or Mere Laziness
I recently had an interview booked on a radio show with a host who was looking forward to chatting about Island Girl.  The book had been sent to her months before, the bio had...
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Mar.08.2011 - 8:04 am
Blogs - To write truth, or to write pleasantries
This is my premier blog, the first one I have ever attempted. I'm late to the game because honestly, blogging does not come naturally to me, which is odd because I have opinions...
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Comments from Lynda

Mar.18.2011 - 8:30 pm
In response to: Profanity - A Literary Tool or Mere Laziness
Not unless it was on HBO
I might just be drawing a blank, but I can't think of a show on network television that had colourful language.
Mar.18.2011 - 2:12 pm
In response to: Profanity - A Literary Tool or Mere Laziness
There's always a way
to make things neater. But it would have been like changing the title of the T&A song in the musical Chorus Line to...
Mar.16.2011 - 10:39 am
In response to: Profanity - A Literary Tool or Mere Laziness
Well said!
Thanks Louise.
Mar.08.2011 - 9:30 am
In response to: End of Blog/er/ing
And here I've just started. .
So everything I feared is true. Damn.
Mar.08.2011 - 9:25 am
In response to: Blogs - To write truth, or to write pleasantries
Thanks Barb. It feels a
Thanks Barb. It feels a little like dipping my toes into the water before diving in. You don't feel the chill until you...

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Island Girl
Dec.07.2010
Island Girl
Published by http://www.awornpath.blogspot.com/2010/12/island-girl-intertwines-family-drama.html
Lynda Simmons' latest novel Island Girl takes readers on a trip to Canada and the Toronto Islands, a small clustering of islands just off shore in Lake Ontario. In her novel rich...
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About Lynda

I started out writing romantic comedy for Harlequin and Kensington, but made the jump to mainstream fiction in 2009 with Getting Rid of Rosie (Berkley Books). Rosie was also a comedy but this time the focus was on the female relationships -- mothers and...
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