She still continues to write mostly in her kitchen as her apartment is always full of pets, kids and guitars. With this series, she began tasting some success and two of novel series’ were listed on the New York Times best sellers’ list. So, in 2008 she gave the best work of her life which was the Cupcake Mystery series. Jenn decided to switch from romance to mystery novels.

She signed a contract with them and continued writing romantic stories, but was not gaining anything out of it. After this, life took a strange turn when she received a call from Harlequin. She fell in love with Chris during this course and became the mother of a boy. They did not prove to be any good to her so she decided to take up some part time jobs. So she moved to Arizona and began writing romantic novels. Although she had decided to become a writer after watching the movie ‘Romancing the Stone’, she would not get time to write anything because of her job. After coming out of college, she worked at a bar named Toad’s Place and took a full time job in Cromwell, C.T as a librarian. Jenn attended the Southern Conn State University, where she studied Library Science and English Literature. She was very tall considering her age at that time and hence had to give up the training. When she was a kid, she wanted to become a jockey and was helped by her mother, who took her for riding lessons. Jenn is of the belief that daydreaming is the most underrated skill of life. Another reason for which she hated acting was that the actors were not paid well at that time. Although she did not like to be part of the show, she worked for 18 hours and considers it to be the most boring 18 hours of her life. She featured on the TV show called ‘Moloney’ as an extra along with actor Peter Strauss. She has taken lessons for flying a glider aircraft from her father. Jenn’s father was a glider pilot and because of that she has flown a lot with him. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona along with her husband, sons and number of pet animals comprising of a dog, two cats and a fish.

Jenn is married to musician Chris and has a couple of sons.

She has a local craft store to her name as well owned by the name Michael’s Craft Store. She took her first class of decoupage when she was around twelve years old. Apart from writing, Jenn is also very fond of making doodles and fun crafts along with her children. The other well known novel series’ written by Jenn include the ‘Library Lover’s Mystery’ and the ‘Hat Shop Mystery’. Thriller and mystery genre books and novels are her specialty. She uses other names such as Lucy Lawrence and Josie Belle as well for writing novels. Jenn has written three of the most successful mystery series of all time along with some other stand-alone novels. She is the New York Times bestselling author, who got name and fame through her mystery series ‘Cupcake Bakery Mysteries’. Jenn McKinlay is a pen name of the famous author Lucy Lawrence.

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