The founder and editor of scratch, her award-winning short stories and essays can be found in Skirt! Magazine, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Gwinnett Daily Post, Dana Literary Society, New Works Review, Byline, The Duck & Herring Company Pocket Field Guide, venuszine, zygote in my coffee, BigCityLit, oculartravel, espressofiction, Divine Caroline, NPR’s I Believe, Europe From a Backpack, The Signature Series, Golden Short Stories, O’Georgia! A Collection of Georgia’s Newest and Most Promising Writers, Big Water, Moronic Ox, Weird Year and soon to be in the Web de Sol anthology as a finalist in the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Contest.
Linda attended the Southampton Writer’s Workshop on a full scholarship where she studied under Amy Hempel. She will attend the Key West Literary Seminar and has been accepted into the workshop program on a scholarship for January 2012.
Moving into the digital market, many of Linda’s short works can be found on Amazon and are available for most e-readers through Smashwords.
Her e-book, Simple Intent, a legal thriller based on a true story from 1970′s Philadelphia was recently published by Open Books, is sold internationally and continues to receive rave reviews.
Watch for the upcoming release of Not Waving, Drowning. A sweeping generational novel set in the south that revolves around three women- one of them is the mysterious, heroic Waving Girl of Savannah- this book explores how love can’t be judged, the past can’t be rewritten, and not everyone can be saved.
Also coming soon, 3 Women Walk into a Bar, a contemporary detective story with an Internet twist, that introduces Bill Tedesco, PI: former exotic dancer and karaoke star.
Linda’s venturing into non-fiction for the first time, with a photo essay book on the modern truck driver, in a collaboration with photographer Avital Aronowitz.
Agented by Josh Getzler of Hannigan, Salky, Getzler, she’s currently completing the first draft of Grand Theft Cargo, the first in a series of mysteries featuring Jojo Boudreaux, a sassy, tenacious trucker with the mouth of a sailor and the heart… of a truck driver.
