Books by Lynette Hall Hampton

JILTED BY DEATH came out from Silver Dagger Mysteries in March, 2004. It is the story of Willa Hinshaw, the new associate minister at First United Methodist Church in the fictitious town of Liverpool, NC. On her second week on the job, a bride disappears and Willa finds herself caught in a cat and mouse game with a killer.

It is the first in a series featuring the spunky associate minister, Willa Hinshaw, at Liverpoole First United Methodist Church.

JILTED BY DEATH is a nominee for the 2004 Sir Walter Raleigh Award For Fiction, 2004. This award is given by the Historical and Literary Society of North Carolina.

Lynette Hall Hampton is busy working on the second in the series, ECHOS OF MERCY.

JILTED BY DEATH is available at www.shakespeareandcompany.com (an independent bookstore), at most other bookstores, as well as from the publisher.

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My mother, Willa Dean Hall, was working on a book before her death in 2001. Unfortunately, cancer took her from this world before the book was complete. As a tribute to her, I put the manuscript together in a way in which I hope she would be pleased. I found the title THEN in her papers and used this as she would have done. THEN is available from Gentle Giant Publishing, a division of Alabaster Books.

Willa Dean Hall's writing style has been described as a cross between the styles of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mark Twain.

In THEN, she paints a picture of a hard but happy childhood in the mid 1920s and early 1930s on the family farm at Millers Creek, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Willa Dean, along with her three siblings -- an older brother and sister and a younger sister -- are children you learn to know and grow to love. Mrs. Hall's prose is charming in its simplicity, chock full of humor and often with just the right amount of potency. It definitely gives the reader a true picture of how life was THEN.

THEN is available from Rhodes Book Store in North Wilkesboro, NC; The Brier Patch in Millers Creek, NC; Lynette Hall Hampton, PO Box 2118, Kernersville, NC 27285. ($15.00 includes shipping and handling) NC residents add 7% sales tax. or order from from the publisher: www.publisheralabaster.biz and pay with PayPal.

As a writer, have you ever been discourage? Have you wanted to throw up your hands and try another profession? Have you ever thought you would never see any of your work in print? If any of these things are true, then my new book, WRITER TO WRITER, The Writing Book I Wish I'd Had 20 Years Ago is the book for you.

Written in short personal essays and taken mostly from my experiences on the road to a successful writing career, it shows you how to get started, how to keep plugging and finally how you can become a successful writer too.

It is a book you will want to pick up again and again -- especially when you think there's nobody out there who will ever appreciate your work. In showing you how I became a writer, it tells you that you can do it, no matter what "they" say.

It gives you encouragement when the going gets tough and you think you will never make it. It teaches you how to set your writing goals and shows you how to reach them. It tells you why you can be a writer if that is what you really want. And much, much more.

Mystery writer Nancy Bartholomew says "Lynette Hall Hampton serves up comfort food for the writer's soul. Warm words of wisdom, seasoned with sage advice and constant encouragement."

WRITER TO WRITER, The Writing Book I Wish I'd Had 20 Years Ago is available from , Rhodes Book Store in North Wilkesboro, NC, Daniel's Read-A-Lot in Ashboro, NC; Lynette Hall-Hampton, PO Box 2118, Kernersville, NC 27285 ($15.00 includes shipping and handling) NC residents add 7.5% sales tax. Or order from the publisher: www.publisheralabaster.biz and you can pay with PayPal.

Lynette Hall Hampton's first pbulished book was FUN WITH THE published. It has now been reprinted.This book is chock full of games, quizzes and puzzles -- some easy enough for the young reader; others, will challenge the adult. This book is not intended to give the reader the feedling of knowing the Bilble, but will familiarize him or her with Bible stories and history in the Old an New Testaments as they work out the answers. Anywhere a variation is encountered answers answers can found in the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. 

After making hundreds of these games, puzzles and quizzes for Sunday School and Bible School literature for a vairety of denomiations, Lynette decided it was time to construct some to put into book form. She sticks only to the facts as stated in the Bible and has purpously not interjected any theology. She says that she has been a Methodist most of her life and has sold less of her work to her own demonination than she has to others.

FUN WITH THE BIBLE was first published by Concordia Publishing who is owned by the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. It has been re-released by Alabaster Books.

FUN WITH THE BIBLE is available from  Rhodes Book Store in North Wilkesboro, NC or from Lynette Hall Hampton, PO Box 2118, Kernersville, NC 27285 ($8.00 includes shipping and handling) NC residents add 7.5% sales tax. Or order fromt the publisher: www.publisheralabaster.biz and you can pay with PayPal

"The best book Lynette Hall Hampton has written to date," John Staples, retired newspaper editor says of DUO OF OPPOSITES which was released in June, 2006.

Once naive Amy Cunningham leaves her childhood home, there is no turning back -- not even after is involved in an accident that robs her of everything she owns. Still fighting the demons of her past, she is rescued by mysterious Jason Broughton who is touring the country on His Harley-Davidson.

They both expect to spearate as soon as a doctor is found to treat her wounds, but when the angry doctor sees her injuries as a crime, they are forced to flee for their lives. Unforseen circumstances keep throwing the unlikely twosome together. As their conflicting personalities surface, it leads the reader to wonder if this pair of opposites can ever become a duo.

 Signed copies of DUO OF OPPOSITES are available from from Lynette Hall Hampton, PO Box 2118, Kernersville, NC, 27285. ($15.00 includes shipping and handling.) NC residents add 7.5% sales tax. It is also available from online book stoors such as Amazon and B&E and can be ordered from most any bookstore through Baker and Taylor. It is carried at Shakespeare and Company, an independent bookstore in Kernersville, NC, or you can order directly from the publisher: www.publisheralabaster.biz where you can PayPal.