Cynthia took pre-med in college and after volunteering in the local hospital's emergency room, planned to go into emergency medicine. Deciding to travel for a short time before continuing her education, she spent a semester in Japan. Bitten by the travel bug while in Japan, she returned to the States and was hired by an international airline due to the Japanese language she'd picked up.

 

Traveling the world turned out to be the perfect job for Cynthia who also wanted to write science fiction. Intriguing passengers came from all over the world. On long-haul flights there was plenty of time to talk to international passengers and learn about their views, their countries, and what they thought about America. Flight attendants, too, hailed from many different countries since the airline always had a flight attendant on board who spoke the language of destination and could translate the inflight announcements. That meant on layovers there was also a built-in tour guide. Many of the places Cynthia visited would later became settings in the three-part series of novels she's working on. 

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​After a few years working for the airlines, Cynthia decided against applying to medical school and moved to Los Angeles. She pursued a masters degree in screenwriting. Over the next few years, she worked at one of the studios in LA, was the original ghost writer on Bill Bright’s “His Intimate Presence," published by New Life Publications, and then started a second career teaching biology, chemistry, anatomy, and physiology classes at a public high school. Now retired, she writes full-time.  

 

People sometimes ask Cynthia, how you state at a blank page, not get overwhelmed, and figure out what to write? There's a verse in Matthew (10: 18-21) that says, ". . . you will even be brought before governors and kings on My account, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who are speaking, but it is the Spirit of your Father who is speaking in you." The context has to do with giving a testimony about the Lord Jesus. ​

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Since I hope to always give a good testimony about the Lord in my writing, I pray and ask the Holy Spirit to inspire my words so I honor him.  The joy is that the Spirit will often show me something that I would never have thought of myself. The words flow and the glory belongs to my Lord.