Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

Publication and marriage
Abbey began publishing in 1979 with Daughter of the Bright Moon and the short story "The Face of Chaos" part of a Thieves World shared world anthology. In 2002 Lynn Abbey returned to Thieves World with the novel Sanctuary and also began editing new anthologies beginning with Turning Points. She began writing for TSR Inc.

Lynn Abbey (born September 18 1948; birth name Marilyn Lorraine Abbey) is an American computer programmer and author.