Cynthia took pre-med in college and planned to go into medicine. Deciding to travel for a short time before continuing her education, she found work as a flight attendant with Pan Am, an international airline.

 

Traveling the world turned out to be the perfect job for someone who also wanted to write. Many of the places she visited later became settings in the three-part science fictions novels she is working on. 

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For instance, Hohensalzburg Fortress, a large, fully preserved castle she toured in Salzburg, Austria became the mountain-top

hangout for the bad guys in the first novel. Osaka Castle in Osaka, Japan became one the good guys used as their headquarters. After spending a week rafting Grand Canyon, it became a refuge for the good guys. 

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After a longer detour than planned with the airlines, she did not apply to medical school, but moved to Los Angeles, and pursued a masters degree in screenwriting from The American Film Institute. 

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Over the next years, she worked at Twentieth Century Fox, was the original ghost writer on Bill Bright’s “His Intimate Presence," a book on the Holy Spirit, published by New Life Publications, and then taught high school biology, chemistry, anatomy, and physiology science classes at a public high school. Now retired, she has time to write full-time.  

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