About Us

Jennifer and Mark Kyrnin have worked with computers nearly all their lives. Jennifer learned to program on a TRS-80 while Mark started out on an Apple 2e. They have since switched with Mark on a Windows PC and Jennifer preferring Macintosh, and they have passed their computer love on to their son.

Jennifer Kyrnin

Jennifer writes fiction about trees and computers. She has written seven non-fiction books about Web Design, HTML, XML, and web development both online and off. She has also created several videos for learning Web Development.

Mark Kyrnin

Mark is a network engineer at a global corporation and keeps his friends up-to-date in gaming laptops and peripherals.

Fiction by Jennifer Kyrnin

Short Stories

"Vampire Gourd"

DreamPunk Press Anthology, Horror for Halloween, published in October 2022.

"The Ficus"

First appeared in Meniscus Literary Journal vol 8

"I've been haunted by both Jennifer Kyrnin's "The Ficus" and Jessica Temple's "Step/Mother" since reading vol. 8, iss. 1. What beautiful writing!" ~a reader

Digital Dryad

a novel in progress

Sierra, daughter of the dryad Matriarch of the Pacific Northwest Dryad grove, would much rather program computers than hug trees. But when her grove is faced with fiery destruction, she has to learn how to use her computer skills to save them, while also convincing her technophobic family to allow it. When she ends up bonding with a digital tree, no one knows what's going to happen.

Non-Fiction by Jennifer Kyrnin

Web Design and Development Books

  • HTML, CSS, and JavaScript All inOne, Sams Teach Yourself
  • Responsive Web Design in 24 Hours
  • Bootstrap in 24 Hours
  • HTML, CSS & JavaScript Web Publishing in One Hour a Day
  • Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development
  • About.com Guide to Web Design
  • Access the Internet