Lin Stepp
Author of the upcoming release The Foster Girls
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About the Author
Dr. Lin Stepp is a native Tennessean, a businesswoman, and an educator. She is on faculty at Tusculum College where she teaches several Psychology courses, including Developmental and Educational Psychology, and a Research writing sequel. Her business background includes over 20 years in marketing, sales, production art, and regional publishing. She and her husband began their own sales and publications business, S & S Communications, in 1989. The company publishes two regional fishing and hunting guide magazines and has a sports sales subsidiary handling sports products and media sales in East Tennessee. She has editorial and writing experience in regional magazines and in the academic field. The Foster Girls is the first of twelve contemporary Southern romances in a series of linked novels set in the Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee.
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Author Facts
(1) Was
born and spent most of childhood and adult life in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Her relatives trecked down the Appalachian Trail from Virginia to settle
this east Tennessee area and she has deep family roots here.
(2) Met her husband of 38 years while they were students at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Both are still Vol fans.
(3) Has lived for over 30 years in the same home on a quiet cul-de-sac among warm, long-time neighbors and friends.
(4) Has always had cats; now has two cats – Sophie, a female turtoise-shell, and Tucker, a male black and white tuxedo.
(5) Parents, Joy and Phil Mathews, live in nearby Maryville, Tennessee, and brother David and wife, Sandy, live in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Husband J.L.'s mother, Emma, and brother, Steve, live in Tellico Plains, Tennessee and his sister, Rose, in Knoxville. Ours is a warm, connected family – and many other relatives live in the area.
(6) Two children are young adults now, living and working outside of Tennessee. Max teachers high school art in Metairie, Louisiana, outside New Orleans. Kate is media librarian for a high school in Hope Mills, North Carolina, near Fayetteville.
(7) Lin and her husband are strong Christians and are active in a local church in their west Knoxville area. Lin enjoys the women’s circle, and, as you might expect, goes to the church’s monthly book group.
(8) Favorite pastimes besides writing and teaching include: reading – especially romances and mysteries, painting and drawing, walking and hiking in the Smoky Mountains nearby, swimming and being around the water, and enjoying the beauty of the outdoors.