Lynn Abbey’s first book, Daughter of the Moon, was published in 1979.  Since then, she’s had twenty-three other novels published.  Along the way she has written for, and eventually wound up editing, the Thieves' World shared-world anthology series, which ran for twelve volumes in the 1980s and has been resurrected for the third millennium. Courtesy of TW, Lynn has been invited into other shared-world anthologies — often in exchange for the "inside scoop" on how to handle story continuity, not to mention egos and deadlines. She has also navigated the tricky shoals of translating narrative prose into role-playing games.

In 1997, after several delightful and productive years spent in Oklahoma in a household of writers, Lynn decided it was time to get back to her family on the eastern side of the Mississippi and moved to Central Florida . Since arriving in that stranger-than-fiction state, she has written the Orion’s Children series (Out Of Time, Behind Time, Taking Time and Down Time) and has worked on the resurrection of Thieves’ World. The "epic" TW novel, Sanctuary, was published in April of 2002 and has been followed by the first all-new TW anthologies Turning Points and Enemies Of Fortune.

In 2004, the award-winning game producers, Green Ronin, Inc. licensed Thieves’ World for a series of fantasy role-playing supplements, the first of which is due to be released this summer.

In 2005, Lynn completed Rifkind’s Challenge, a sequel to her first novel, Daughter Of The Bright Moon. Currently, she’s hard at work on a top-secret project which will hopefully see publication in 2006 or 2007.