She has over 10 million books in print around the world, and has written more than 25 titles. I couldn't eat." Linda needn't have worried Silhouette Books bought her manuscript, beginning a career that has (so far) lasted over 10 years and earned her many awards and letters of praise from adoring fans. And I lost 20 pounds waiting to hear from them. It was like putting your naked baby into the mailbox. "It made me sick literally, physically ill. She eventually worked up the courage to submit a manuscript for publication. "I get bored with politics and murder and mayhem," she says. "I worked in every phase of the transportation business, but my main duties were payroll, insurance, and the efficiency and production reports." Writing production reports, however, soon grew tiresome for Linda.Īs she continued to write fiction, concentrating on romantic stories. "In the company I worked for, my title was secretary to the terminal manager, but I actually did very little secretarial work," she says. In the ensuing 21 years of writing for her own pleasure, following junior college Linda worked in the transportation industry, where she met Gary F. "Needless to say, it was unpublishable," she says. Linda wrote her first book when she was 10 years old. Whether she is reading them or writing them, books have long played a profound role in Linda's life. She cut her teeth on Margaret Mitchell, Robert Ruark, "and anything else that fell into my hands," she says.
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