About Lynne Jonell
Lynne Jonell is the author (and occasional illustrator) of seventeen books for children, all with an element of fantasy. Her first novel, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, won the Minnesota Book Award; her latest book, Time Sight, is a historical time-travel set at Castle Menzies in Scotland, the castle of her grandfather’s clan. Her books have received starred reviews in The Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist, and have been published in nine languages. She lives in Plymouth, Minnesota, with her husband. For more information please visit
her website.
Lynn, I start off in the morning working but don’t gain any traction until late afternoon. Sometimes not until suppertime! Can’t fight our processes!
Candice, I still remember attending an event where you talked about how you worked… you said you did various things in the morning but then a voice in your head began to say, “Time to go to work. Time to go to work, now,” and it was so insistent that you always went. I’ve always remembered that!
This was so wonderful to read. I smiled and sighed with relief. Thanks Lynne. I love you!
Lynne, thank you for these words and pictures of wisdom! I hope you don’t mind that I dragged this to my desktop as a reminder to not be so hard on myself. It is all productive!