Cynthia Ellingsen

Cynthia Ellingsen is a Michigan author best known for the writing of contemporary romance novels that have won her critical acclaim. Ever since she was in elementary school, Ellingsen had an obsession with reading books and watching soap operas. That coupled with her love for the haunting beauty of Lake Michigan in her hometown is what has inspired her most popular novel “Lighthouse Keeper”. As a child, her parents never liked that she spent so much time watching soap operas and would try as much as they could to find her a new passion. She did not like physical activity and neither did she take to piano lessons, which left her father scrambling until he brought home a grape smelling purple pen. Cynthia was so delighted to get the pen that she swore to write a story with it, and hence was born her love for storytelling. She was fascinated to learn that she could make her characters just as charming and humorous as all the people she loved watching on her soap operas. It was not long before she was totally obsessed with writing, but it would be many years before she sold her first work to Penguin Berkley.