Linda grew up in Loveland, Colorado, the youngest of six children. She moved with her parents to California when she was 16 and spent the next 16 years of her life in the Bay Area before moving home to Colorado and finally to Wyoming. In her writing, Linda draws from her vast and varied experience with people facing domestic violence, hunger, homelessness, mental illness and suicide. Her nonfiction is full of practical strategies and her fictional characters leap off the page with all the nuances, strengths and frailties that draw readers to her work.She recently completed the fourth Jake and Emma Mystery, "Death Changes Everything" with a November 1, 2015 release date and she is hard at work on book five. Linda is also toying with a new series called "It's a Gift" about a Texas Teen who discovers she is heir to a fortune - if she can stay alive until her 30th birthday, something four generations of women before her have failed to do. Linda's short story, "Ringo the Ghost Cat" took first place in the Wyoming Writers, Inc. writing contest in the Children's / Juvenile / Young Adult category.

She wrote the story for her great-niece, who asked her to write a story from the point of view of one of the author's many barn cats. "Boots" is the next story in Ringo's journey from Cool Cat to Guardian Angel. Linda is planning no further short releases until the entire adventure is complete, then she will release it as a full-length book.Follow Linda on Twitter https://twitter.com/LJCrowder Check out her Author Site www.lindajcrowder.com for news and snippets of upcoming books.Find her on Facebook - She loves to share books she's read and recommends and she enjoys chatting with readers.

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