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LINDA: I started writing after I got married, some 33 years ago. I always enjoyed fantasizing, but I figured a married woman couldn't waste time doing that sort of thing, but a writer could. My first story was a Science Fiction story about an alien race of vampires. I wrote mostly for my only entertainment. It was only after my daughter was born in 1978 that I began to get serious about writing. My first completed and published novel was a Star Trek novel that was published as a fanzine back before there was a Second Generation or Voyager. I explored many different kinds of writing, romance, science fiction, fantasy, screenplays, radio scripts, nonfiction, and murder mystery games. I even worked as a ghost writer, writing books about real estate. When we moved to Oregon in 1990, I put my writing on hold and went back to work. In 1996, I was a full time caregiver for my elderly mother-in-law. I needed something to do with my time, so I pulled out a book that I had started years before on spec for Harlequin and decided to finish it. When I finished The Murder Game I sent out birth announcements, "It's a Book." It had taken me nine years from start to finish. Unfortunately, Harlequin rejected it, and my attempts to find an agent only brought out the scam artists. When I began doing market research for my vampire series, I discovered e-publishing, publishing on the Internet. Interview conducted by Lorie Ham, part 2 will be found here next week Go To Page: 1 2
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