Real love is worth every risk . . .
AUTHOR LINDSAY MCKENNA SAYS:
"I've lived six lives in one and it all shows up in the books I write, one way or another.
I
was always a risk taker and broke mustangs at thirteen years old in
Oregon. I learn to break them with love, not threat or pain.
At
17 years old, I picked night-crawlers (worms) out in our Oregon orchards
from 9pm to midnight, every night. I earned enough money to buy my
school clothes and book. I also plunked down $600 to a flight company at
the Medford, Oregon airport and asked them to teach me...a girl...to
fly. I soloed in 12 hours, which is average. From that time until I left
for the US Navy at 18, I had accrued 39 hours of flight time in my
Cessna 150 single engine airplane.
I was in the US military and
was an AG3 (weather forecaster). There was no airplane club, so I
couldn't fly when I was in the Navy. But I could look at the clouds in
the sky ;-).
Later, I flew in a B-52 bomber for a day and night
mission (18 hours total), a T-38 Talon jet, USAF, where I was riding in a
"chase plane" on a test flight in a Dragonfly jet.
I was one of
the first AFLA (American Fencing League of America) women fencers to
fence with epee and sabre. These weapons were closed to women because
they were too 'heavy' for a female to handle. I said baloney and fought
the males and won half my bouts. I was part of a surge of women fencers
on the East Coast in the 1970's to push for equality in the sport.
Together, we changed the sport and changed the mind of the men. Today?
In the Olympics? Women now fence in foil, epee and sabre, thanks to what
we did as a vanguard showing the world it could be done.
I then
became a volunteer firefighter when I was a civilian once more, the
first woman in an all - male fire department in West Point, Ohio for
three years. I became a local expert not only in firefighting, driving
the engine and tanker trunks, but also had training in hazardous
material (Reynoldsburg Fire Academy, Columbus, OH).
My books
always reflect what I experienced. If you like edgy, gritty, deeply and
emotionally intense love stories with sympathetic heroes and heroines,
check out my newest series that will be available mid-Oct. 2015, and it
incorporates much of what I have lived."
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