Linda is an experienced wife, mother & grandmother, with five sons and eight grandchildren. As a bonus, she has three step-children and four step-grandchildren. She is a former school teacher and principal, who loves the Australian countryside and has mostly lived and worked in regional and remote areas of New South Wales, the Northern Territory and South Australia.
Linda writes poetry and short stories for which she has received prizes, family history, memoir and biography. She self-published her first novel, "Ben's Challenge" for children and young adults in August 2011, and her second, a Y.A. novel "Thursday's Child", in February 2018. Linda also has three books of a series for 9-12 year-old girls being readied for publication.
She lives with her husband, a pottery dog and a large collection of owl ornaments, near beautiful Lake Macquarie on the coast of New South Wales, Australia.