Lyn McConchie is a New Zealand writer of science fiction/fantasy, picture books for children, a non-fiction humour series, a number of stand alone books and many short stories, articles, poetry and opinion pieces and reviews. She lives in a small village in Southern Hawke's Bay. Lyn is a member of the NZ Rare Breeds Association, breeding Jacob pattened sheep on her farmlet.

Lyn has won the Best Novel category in the [Sir Julius Vogel Awards] for New Zealand science fiction and fantasy three times, in 2003, 2005, and 2006, for the novels Beastmaster's Ark, Beastmaster's Circus, and The Duke's Ballad respectively, all three of the books having been written in Andre Nortons worlds. She also won an award for editing in the Vogels' former incarnation as the New Zealand science fiction fan awards in 1990. Her short stories have won The Australian SF Foundation award (for The Third Storey) in 1992, and Muse Medallions (Best Short Story)from the International Cat Writers Association in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2002. Her short story, Waiting Tables and Time, was a finalist in the Sir Julius Vogel awards (Best Short Story) in 2009, and most recently her story was in the Whortleberry Press theme anthology (Christmas in Outer Space) that was voted Best of the year on the Whortleberry site.

Most recent books published or due -

• Rural Daze and (K)nights (fifth of the non-fiction humour series from Avalook Publications (Australia) appeared September 2009,
• South of Rio Chama, a western published by Cyberwizard (USA) appeared October 2009, (afterword by Jim Frenkel)
• Summer of Dreaming - to appear from Cyberwizard in first half 2010 (check their site) foreword by Julie Czerneda,
• The Questing Road scheduled by TOR for August 1, 2010.
• Several other of Lyn's books have been sold but are as yet unrevised and unscheduled.

Lyn is currently working on a sequel to Summer of Dreaming, then the possible next in the DAZE series, and after that, the rewrite of a standalone fantasy.

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