“I write because I have to… and because I’m little more than comic relief at anything else. But I’m not complaining, ‘cause really, how many jobs do you get to do in your pajamas?”

Lindsey G. P. Bell’s life has been as exciting and full of adventure as one of her books. Born to a father named Peter and a mother called Wendy, she was very nearly named Tinker Bell. It was the first of many bullets she would go on to dodge. 

As a young child in Washington, D.C., her great loves were the Smithsonian Institution’s museums of Natural History and Air and Space. Ms. Bell’s earliest life dreams were to someday live in a natural history museum and fly airplanes. 

While working in wildlife rescue, a friend introduced her to the now-late Grizzly Man, Timothy Treadwell. Tim and Ms. Bell began dating, and he invited her to join him camping with the wild brown bears, foxes, weasels, wolves and moose in the remote Alaskan wilderness. There, her love of sea-planes and all things natural shone. She was blessed to swim with wild bears, have mother bears (sows) nurse their cubs nearby (they purr!), and play something akin to Capture the Flag with red foxes. After spending portions of two summers in the wilderness with Tim, she embarked on three solo expeditions whereupon she’d spend her nights copiously journaling the day’s adventures. This felt like living in a natural history museum, and the discipline of writing daily led to penning her first children’s book. 

Ms. Bell went on to earn her pilot’s license and sea-plane rating, and soon realized her true love lay in flying aerobatics (spins, loops, rolls…). 

After dabbling in weathercasting, acting, and improv, Ms. Bell began poking the stand-up comedy bear. Though she enjoys writing the material more than performing it, she can still occasionally be found around Los Angeles at open mics. 

In addition to BFF: A Story About Bullycide, she’s completed drafts of seven children’s books, a novella, and three non-fiction volumes detailing her Alaska expeditions. Ms. Bell co-wrote a screenplay about the late Grizzly Man, Timothy Treadwell, with Rebecca Dmytryk. Her spoof essay about The Lorax was published in the Reject-A-Hit column of Writer’s Digest (Oct. 2013) and her short story The Call, The Call of Duty, and The Call Home placed ninth out of fifty finalists in the Inspirational category of the Writer’s Digest 2019 Annual Contest.

(((Ms. Bell uses her middle initials because in addition to the well-known Financial Strategist, Lindsey Bell, there is another author named Lindsey Bell who has published several books.)))