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Kaylin McFarren

Goodreads author profile

url

http://www.goodreads.com/kaylinmcfarren

born

May 18, 1954 in Compton, California, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.kaylinmcfarren.com

genre

Literature & Fiction

influences

Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks, Nora Roberts, James Patterson

member since

August 2009

About this author

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Kaylin McFarren is a rare bird indeed. Not a migratory sort, she prefers to hug the West Coast and keep family within visiting range. Although she has virtually been around the world, she was born in California, relocated with her family to Washington, and nested with her husband in Oregon. In addition to playing an active role in his business endeavors, she has been involved in all aspects of their three daughters' lives - taxi duties, cheerleading coaching, script rehearsals, and relationship counseling, to name but a few. Now she enjoys spending undisciplined time with her two young grandsons and hopes to have many more.

Although Kaylin wasn't born with a pen in hand like so many of her talented fellow authors, she has been actively invol...more Kaylin McFarren is a rare bird indeed. Not a migratory sort, she prefers to hug the West Coast and keep family within visiting range. Although she has virtually been around the world, she was born in California, relocated with her family to Washington, and nested with her husband in Oregon. In addition to playing an active role in his business endeavors, she has been involved in all aspects of their three daughters' lives - taxi duties, cheerleading coaching, script rehearsals, and relationship counseling, to name but a few. Now she enjoys spending undisciplined time with her two young grandsons and hopes to have many more.

Although Kaylin wasn't born with a pen in hand like so many of her talented fellow authors, she has been actively involved in both business and personal writing projects for many years. As the director of a fine art gallery, she assisted in furthering the careers of numerous visual artists who under her guidance gained recognition through promotional opportunities and in national publications. Eager to spread her own creative wings, she has since steered her energy toward writing novels. As a result, she has earned more than a dozen literary awards and was a 2008 finalist in the prestigious RWA® Golden Heart contest.

Kaylin is a member of RWA, Rose City Romance Writers, and Willamette Writers. She received her AA in Literature at Highline Community College, which originally sparked her passion for writing. In her free time, she also enjoys giving back to the community through participation and support of various charitable and educational organizations in the Pacific Northwest.

FUN TIDBITS

She is proud of the fact that her great aunt Bessie B. Cordell, an evangelistic missionary during WWII, was instrumental in opening an orphanage in Tientsin, China and also wrote two published novels, Precious Pearl and Blossoms of the Flowery Kingdom, documenting her dangerous, harrowing experiences.

She keeps a glass of wine close by while writing love scenes, Kleenex on her desk while writing heart breakers, and has been known to empty a box of chocolates when she's completely stumped.

A consummate "pantser" and perfectionist, she writes and edits as she goes, and uses photographs of models and actors from tabloid magazines to visualize her characters.

She loves her husband of 36 years dearly. However, if Brad Pitt or Orlando Bloom came knockin', well... their marriage just might be put to the test.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE

Kaylin sat before her computer writing FLAHERTY'S CROSSING as a source of personal therapy after losing her beloved father to colon cancer. You might say she was angry at him, at God, at the world in general. However, after writing this story, she had the opportunity to really look into her soul and consider the fact that so many other sons and daughters have had to deal with similar and even worse situations. Rather than a memoir, her novel evolved into a fictional journey which brought about the resolution she needed to find. She never expected this exercise in writing to go to press, touch lives, or win literary awards. But as a result of her good fortune, she has arranged for proceeds from the sale of this book to go directly to the Providence Medical Foundation's colon cancer research department in her father's name. She's now convinced and proudly shares her belief that good things can grow out of the worst times in our lives if you just take the time to open your heart.(less)

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Kaylin's Spring 2012 Newsletter

Spring is when life's alive in everything. —Christina Rossetti

Greetings Readers and Good Friends:

Months have slipped away in the blink of an eye and left me with so much to catch up on, and since this is the third year anniversary of my first newsletter, I felt it appropriate to begin my new quarterly updates with a Spring edition. Keeping this in mind, I’m excited to announce some wonderful,... read more »

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Books by Kaylin McFarren

Average rating: 4.27 · 51 ratings · 23 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Flaherty's Crossing 4.24 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Severed Threads 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Severed Threads (Mystery & Thrillers)

1 chapters — updated May 10, 2010 06:43pm

Description: Believing herself responsible for her father's fatal diving accident, Rachel Lyons has withdrawn from the world and assumed a safe position at a foundation office. When called upon by a museum director to assist her former love interest with the recovery of a priceless artifact from a sunken galleon, she has no intention of cooperating - until her brother is kidnapped by a drug-dealing gangster. In order to save him and gain control over her own life, Rachel must not only overcome her greatest fears, but also relive the circumstances that lead to her father's death.

FLAHERTY'S CROSSING (Drama)

1 chapters — updated Apr 06, 2010 10:15pm

Description: Excerpt - Chapter One

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Kaylin McFarren is currently reading:

Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)

by E.L. James (Goodreads Author)

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May 18, 2012 03:23pm

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Kaylin McFarren is now friends with Joe McCoubrey
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Kaylin McFarren voted on a poll in the Readers Delight group Do you you think reading a lot of books or being a passionate reader makes you good at writing your...more she voted for Yes
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Kaylin McFarren made a comment in the group Readers Delight — What did you just finish? topic "Just finished Shades of Grey and am halfway into the second book in the series. So far...lots and lots of sex but very little story line. "
May 18, 2012 03:25pm
Kaylin McFarren marked as to-read: Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3) by E.L. James (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Kaylin McFarren is currently reading: Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2) by E.L. James (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Kaylin McFarren gave to: Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1) by E.L. James (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Kaylin McFarren gave to: Stolen Fury (Stolen Trilogy, #1) by Elisabeth Naughton (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Kaylin McFarren made a comment in the group How to Promote YOUR book on Amazon — You Want Your Book TAGGED on Amazon topic "Kait, thank you for creating this group and your willingness to help struggling authors, like myself. I have a new romantic suspense book coming out o...more "
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“After 30 years of marriage, isn’t it amazing when you look at your partner sound asleep next to you and think they've still got potential.”
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“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
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“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
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“After 30 years of marriage, isn’t it amazing when you look at your partner sound asleep next to you and think they've still got potential.”
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“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
― Woody Allen

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“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
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