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cross-country train ride, sharing meals
and shower stalls with strangers as
I write about the trip!
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Stay a while. Take a look around. Have a seat. Hey, get your feet off the couch! Whaddya live in a barn? And close that door. We're not paying to heat the whole Internet!
Now don't you feel right at home?
I'm glad you're here. Click stuff. Read stuff. Buy stuff. Not necessarily in that order.
— Linda M. Au
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Earlier Stuff:
February 2, 2017
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning. Six more weeks of winter. This is not really news. But it does explain why I am waiting till spring to take my cross-country train trip, where I'll be writing and taking notes for the humor book Train of Thought.
You can still back this project. Even the smallest donation gets a copy of the book! Click this linky thing over here ------> Indiegogo Campaign
September 9, 2015: Get in on a Kindle Countdown Deal for GRAY AREA! Until Friday night (Sept. 11, 2015), GRAY AREA is just 99¢!
Quick! Get your copy before they run out! (Just kidding.)
GRAY AREA - Kindle Edition! 99¢
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July 14, 2015: This is your LAST DAY to get the Kindle edition of HEAD IN THE SAND...AND OTHER UNPOPULAR POSITIONS free! (And then I'll shut up about it.)
Swipe a copy now for your Kindle or Kindle app!
STILL #1 in HUMOR / ESSAYS! For nearly 4 days straight!
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Just released—Kindle and Trade Paperback!
GRAY AREA
Ready for something a LOT more serious (and downright melancholy) from me? Here's GRAY AREA.
Available now! It was an Amazon Hot New Release for Women's Christian Fiction. Get your copy now!
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After she’s violently attacked back in her hometown after her class reunion, Emily Saunders is the hot topic of conversation again, just when she was beginning to feel her husband’s death a few years earlier was no longer the big news item for everyone at church.
The attack leaves her bruised and battered, struggling to remember the details of what happened—but then struggling to forget those details for good. What exactly happened that night?
Emily returns home to Pittsburgh—to her children and to Peter, her new boyfriend from church—but finds herself worrying about everything that’s happened, everything that still might happen, and everything that will have to change because of a second pivotal day in her young life—a day on which everything changes.
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GRAY AREA was a 2005 semifinalist in the national contest Operation First Novel.
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NOW AVAILABLE in print and Kindle editions!
THE SCARLET LETTER OPENER
(a cozy mystery)
When freelance proofreader Maggie Velam stumbles upon the body of her small town’s newspaper editor, she becomes entangled in the mystery of who could have done such a thing to a man nobody liked anyway.
Then, someone else is found dead, and Maggie’s attention to detail kicks in. She partners with her friend Helga and her son, Seth, to figure out whodunnit ... before someone else winds up dead.
Click Here for The Scarlet Letter Opener!
June 8, 2015
Women's Christian Fiction: GRAY AREA is now available at Amazon! Be prepared for a much more somber story from me this time!
June 5, 2015
STAY TUNED, folks! On Monday, June 8, watch for the "cover reveal" for the new novel, GRAY AREA! A foray into more serious territory... available later this month!
May 21, 2015
THE SCARLET LETTER OPENER is now available in both print and Kindle editions! And, if you purchase a print edition and would like an autographed bookplate sticker to put in the inside cover, just use my Contact page to give me a suitable mailing address and your name, and I'll send one in the mail!
May 1, 2015
Hold onto your hats, boys and girls! The cozy mystery THE SCARLET LETTER OPENER will be available early this month! Be on the lookout for the official announcement soon!
June 30, 2014
It's official! The first novel to hit bookshelves will be SECRET AGENT MANNY! I'm doing the polishing now and hope to have it to beta readers soon. Then, once they hack it to pieces—I mean, give constructive criticism—I'll run it through the book polisher one last time. The typesetting is started. The cover is essentially finished. We're in the home stretch!
June 29, 2014
My publishing arm has launched! Don't forget to visit VICIOUS CIRCLE PUBLISHING to see what's in store for all you readers of quirky books! (Visit Vicious Circle Publishing here.) It's not much yet, but it's a start. And, I love using all of my decades of prepress skills all in one place. Go me!
April 14, 2014
Okay, friends! Please vote for my second book, FORK IN THE ROAD, in this contest—50 Self-Published Books Worth Reading—where it's been nominated in the Comedy category.
And, please feel free to share this link (and the instructions to vote for FORK IN THE ROAD in Comedy) on your own Facebook timelines or Twitter feeds!
Voting ends in mid-May, but vote early so you don't forget.
Vote for FORK IN THE ROAD here!
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April 14, 2014
Here's the link to the second half of my interview about proofreading and publishing with author Dora Machado. Honestly, it's interesting, even with a topic like that. ;)
Why Texting Is a Tool of the Devil...
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April 9, 2014
Happy to report that Savvy Authors has picked up my interview about proofreading! Thanks to Dora Machado for conducting the interview and alerting me to this reissue... Part 1 Here:
What a Proofreader Can Do For You
(Part 2 is scheduled to appear in two days, April 11, 2014. Link to come...)
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March 18, 2014
I admit I've been hibernating most of this winter, but there is BIG NEWS here today! I just found out seconds ago that my first NaNoWriMo novel, DO-IT-YOURSELF WIDOW, has made it to the second round in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award!
Coming Sept. 8-9, 2017:
Beaver County BookFest
9/8: Author Panel
(including me!)
9/9: BookFest!
May 20, 2017:
I'm home from my train trip!
I know how excited you all are. Head on over to the blog (click on the link above that says "HOME") for a few post-trip updates and the continuing saga of my life!
April 2017:
CONTEST:
LINDA'S TRAIN TRIP PACKING LIST!
I'm collecting things to pack for the big train trip! Be the first person to identify every item in the photo below AND to tell why I am bringing it along and you will win a print copy of TRAIN OF THOUGHT (available in September) and each of my other four books.
Later correct answers (up to 10 people) will each win a print copy of TRAIN OF THOUGHT.
There are 31 marked items in the photo. Use the Contact page link above to send me your answers.
NOTE: Some items may have more than one purpose. Any one purpose will count as a correct answer.
Contest ends when 10 people answer correctly (or when I get on the train in about a week, whichever comes first).
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