Lynne grew up in Surrey and South London. Following a Foundation Year at Wimbledon School of Art, she won a two-year bursary on the Regional Theatres Trainee Directors’ Scheme, and is a graduate of the University of Reading.
She has freelanced as a director throughout the UK in repertory and touring theatre, run a touring theatre company in Tayside (initiating the Tayside Writers Festival), and was resident at The Young Vic and National Theatres. Much of her worked has been devised and improvised, co-written, or self-penned, including work for adults, children and young people. The last featured strongly in Fable Productions, a young people’s drama company. She has adapted classics for BBC Radio, dramatised three Dickens novels for Guildford School of Acting where she also taught, and took a play, co-written with students of the Royal Scottish Academy (now Conservatoire), to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; also taught at other drama schools.
‘Resting’ work has included part-time Activities Co-ordinator in a Neurorehabilitation unit, and audio typing (while at university) for the Psychology Department at Broadmoor High Security Hospital, where she also directed a patients’ annual variety review (beat Mel Brooks to the post!). Also, tutors English Language and Literature, and Drama, from KS3 to University level, and English as a Foreign Language. Published her first novel, Terrible With Raisins in 2013, second, Jigsaw Island, in 2020, and has won several short story competitions. Two novels (at least), and an anthology of short stories in the pipeline. Moved to Devon in 2014. Very happy member of Teignmouth Writers.
Website: lynnemcvernon.com
Facebook: Lynne McVernon – author
Jigsaw Island eBook
Terrible With Raisins eBook
TWR & JI Paperbacks
Chill with a Book Award
Latest release:
Home is a place, a person, an idea, or a life, and leaving it is always significant. It could mean an escape to freedom, happiness or adventure, realising a mistake and yearning to return, or even death.
Fifteen short stories mix the reality of life with fantasy. Meet an archangel and a tiny vampire, travel from New York to Ireland via Barbados. Leave a beach in England and whirl through millennia, changing shape along the way. Join the stage crew in London’s West End, and a pantomime in a small regional theatre. Share adolescent angst, domestic rage, unrequited love, the poignancy of loss, and the comfort of friendship. These are tales of comedy and tragedy, inspiring laughter and touching the heart. Contains some adult themes.
