Appearances by Lynette M. Burrows

I enjoy meeting new people and speaking about writing, research, and many other topics. My appearances have been rare during a time of family need, but I am anticipating getting out and visiting with more of you in the near future. See “Ask Lynette to be a Guest” below.

Watch this space for more information!
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May 10, 2025

Lit & Libations at The Co-Op Shoal Creek

Image titled Lit & Libations shows playing cards that seem to float above the background of a hearts and clubs and a keyhole that is at an angle and in the keyhole is a rose, colorful flowers and a path with signs pointing opposite directions and a cheshire cat's smile and eyes glowing in the dark.

Sat, July 26, 2025

4:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Boozy Book Fest

The Sheraton Kansas City – Kansas City, Missouri

Click here for tickets and more information


Image shows Parkville Coffee ad for Author Readings & Signing for 2pm April 19, 2025 --lists Lynette M Burrows, Jan S. Gephardt & Samantha Fidler-Newby as participants. Photo of the front door of Parkville Coffee and cover of If I Should die off to the side.

April 18, 2025

2:00pm DST

Parkville Coffee, 103 Main Street, Parkville, Mo

Photograph of authors Lynette M. Burrows, Jan S. Gephadt and Samantha Fidler-Newby (left to right) holding their books in the book nook area of Parkville Coffee

Lynette will be reading from her Fellowship Dystopia Series. Also reading are authors Samantha Fidler-Newby and Jan S. Gephardt. Come listen. Listen to new or beloved fantasy and science fiction authors reading their own work.

March 30, 2025

2nd Annual Kansas City Local Author Book Fair at Karma Community Market

Image with the date Sunday, March 30th 11am-2 pm, with my image and an announcement: Sparkling Ambition Marketing Presents Kansas City Local Author Book Fair, Genre Fiction, Booth 17, 1117 W Main St. Blue Springs, Mo 64015

Conventions

I love attending many science fiction and writing conventions. Meeting fans, readers, and authors is always a joy.

ConQuest – Kansas City

ConQuest is a science fiction and fantasy convention held in Kansas City, Missouri on Memorial Day weekend each year. You can find me hanging out in the lounge area or catch me on a panel.

Sadly, the 2024 con was cancelled. Hope to catch you there next year.


Local Book Events

Local Author Book Festival

Local Author Reading

June 1, 2024 I was hosted by Parkville Coffee in their author readings series. I read from an early chapter of My Soul to Keep to a wonderfully responsive audience. Thank you Parkville Coffee and thank you audience members.

Image of the author and her grandson at her bookselling table at a local library in Christmas season 2019.

My grandson helped me at my bookselling table when I appeared at the Mid-Continent Public Library’s 6th Annual Story Center Local Author Fair.


Mysterious Goings On (MGO) is a podcast hosted by Kansas City area resident, J. Alexander Greenwood. We follow each other on Twitter. I am honored to have been a guest on his show twice. We talked most recently on May 12, 2022.

Image is from one of my appearances and is a collage with the branded MGO podcast image in the upper left and my portrait photo below it with New Episode emblazoned in the middle left and at the bottom it reads "with guest Lynette M. Burrows author of If I Should Die."

Listen to the May 12, 2022 episode where I discuss finishing my novel, If I Should Die, during a time of personal loss and using real-life settings in fiction.

Don’t forget to listen to my first appearance on MGO in 2020 where I discuss learning to shoot like a sniper for a novel I’m working on.

Portrait photograph of Alex Greenwood, the host of the Mysterious Goings on podcast who hosted Lynette's appearance twice.

J. Alexander Greenwood is an award-winning writer, public relations consultant, podcaster, speaker, and former journalist and broadcasting executive. He is best known as the author of the John Pilate Mysteries and host/producer of the Mysterious Goings On podcast and the PR After Hours podcast. Mysterious Goings On was named an Apple Podcasts “New & Noteworthy” show in 2016 and was a 2019 People’s Choice Podcast Awards nominee. Alex has recorded hundreds of hours of podcasts and made numerous appearances on TV, radio, podcasts, webinars, and conferences. He is the author of the Amazon Top-Selling eBook, The Podcast Option.


Interviews and Appearances on Other Blogs

Read my interview on Bold Journey. Done in March 2024, I talk about how to gain confidence and self-esteem and what traits help make one successful as a writer.

CanvasRebel interviewed me about what it takes to be a successful writer on January 11, 2023.

Claire Buss hosted me for an interview in March of 2019 on her website, But I Don’t Like Salad. I like her domain name, don’t you? Having been a published author for a mere seven months, was my first guest appearance. Thank you, Claire!

Claire Buss is a multi-genre author and poet, completely addicted to cake. Find all her books on Amazon. Join the discussion in her Facebook group Buss’s Book Stop

Jan S. Gephardt has been a friend of mine for many years. You could say we were baby writers together. She had an idea that we could write a twinned interview. We posted it on the same day in September 2021 on each of our sites. See it on Jan’s website.

It was not only fun to do, readers thought it was a fun and interesting post.

About Jan

Jan S. Gephardt commutes daily between her Kansas City-area home and two other universes: the sunny balcony in the Wizards’ Village where she makes her paper sculpture, and a habitat space station the size of New York City, far from Earth and several hundred years in the future, where she writes science fiction novels about a sapient police dog.


I have the first six chapters of the first draft of If I Should Die recorded. I hope to do a variety of recordings to share with you. Here’s the first one:

Ask Lynette to be a Guest

Email me at lynette at lynettemburrows.com with a date and time at least several months in advance of the appearance. Include any particular topics you’d like me to discuss, any stipend or costs (such as membership or hotel rooms), and any precautions your organization is taking in regard to the pandemic. I will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you!