(Here's the obligatory bragging in the third person, written so you'll take me seriously. It's all true, but the most important part is the next three paragraphs. The first paragraph below with "extraordinary life changes" was written by my webmaster David Clark as a placeholder when we were developing the site. I was so surprised - and flattered - I decided to keep it here. Thank you, David.)
Linda has made extraordinary life changes. After suffering a broken
back in a car accident in the late 1990's and nearly losing her writing
career, Linda worked for years in physical therapy, then had an
adjustable gastric band placed in 2003.
Since then she's lost over 140
pounds and a dozen dress sizes. More importantly, she regained her life, her career, and has turned her story telling skills toward writing novels
in addition to technical books.
Her specialty is making technical
subjects more personal by including stories, or case studies, of ordinary
people solving real-world problems.
Linda's focus is to encourage. Through her books, she works to inspire and motivate readers. And she offers practical workshops for writers.
Linda has three national awards from the Computer
Press Association for her writing about the computer industry. Two of her
books, Making Money in Cyberspace and Mailing List Services On Your Home-Based PC were awarded "Best General
Computer Book of the Year" for the years they were published.
To see samples of Linda's work, visit the Articles page.
These pieces have appeared in writers group newsletters all over the US including the Pikes Peak Writer NewsMagazine, The Writers' League of Texas Scribe, The StoryTeller, and the North Carolina Writers' Network newsletter.
Linda's latest book,
co-authored with her surgeon Robert Sewell M.D., is Weight Loss Surgery with
the Adjustable Gastric Band (Da Capo Lifelong Books, March 2008). The book
includes case studies of band patients, psychologists, dietitians and exercise
therapists. It includes Linda's story of how she safely lost over 140 pounds
and 12 dress sizes in two years without any removal or rearrangement of her
digestive system.
Linda's first book, Mailing
List Services On Your Home-Based PC (McGraw-Hill) won Best General Book
of the Year in 1994. Two years earlier in 1992, she was honored with the Best
On-Line Publication? award for her work with Newsbytes News Network, an
international, high-tech news service later purchased and ran by the Washington
Post.
She is also author of Start
Your Own Computer Repair Business (McGraw-Hill) and Upgrade
Your Own PC, 2nd Edition (Wiley, formerly IDG Books). Upgrade
Your Own PCmade book distributor Ingram-Micro's top 10 list for
computer books. Her fourth book, Making Money in Cyberspace, co-authored with Paul and Sarah Edwards, was awarded the top general computer book of 1998 by the Computer Press Association. Linda's books enjoy translation into more than a dozen
languages including: Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Russian.
Linda has served on the
faculty of LearningTreeUniversity
and CollinCountyCommunity College.
She's acted as a consultant to a number of businesses and non-profit
organizations including: the University
of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the Veteran's
Administration and the Association of Government Accountants.
On the subject of computers,
Linda has been quoted by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,
SmartMoney Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, CNN, Money Magazine, Home Office
Computing, Home PC, and the book MOREWindows 95 for Dummies. She's written
thousands of articles for mainstream and computer publications such as The
London Guardian, PC Computing, Word Perfect Magazine, Federal Computer Week and
Canadian Computer Currents.
Taking her story-telling
into the realm of fiction, Linda has completed her first techno-thriller novel and is
at work on a suspense.
Born a second-generation Colorado native, Linda currently lives outside Raleigh, North
Carolina.
About Linda 
Linda has made extraordinary life changes. After suffering a broken
back in a car accident in the late 1990's and nearly losing her writing
career, Linda worked for years in physical therapy, then had an
adjustable gastric band placed in 2003. 
Linda's first book, Mailing
List Services On Your Home-Based PC (McGraw-Hill) won Best General Book
of the Year in 1994. Two years earlier in 1992, she was honored with the Best
On-Line Publication? award for her work with Newsbytes News Network, an
international, high-tech news service later purchased and ran by the 
On the subject of computers,
Linda has been quoted by