Author Archive: Linda Adams

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How I Learned to Improve My Craft

How I Learned to Improve My Craft

Everyone imagines sending their book off to an agent and magic happens.  When I put my first finished novel in the mail, I thought it was going to be a best seller.  Then I got form rejection after form rejection. I know now that a form rejection means the agents probably weren’t getting past the […]

August 26, 2018 | By | Reply More
Writing as a Woman War Veteran

Writing as a Woman War Veteran

I’ve heard that it takes twenty years before a veteran can write about war. It took me twenty-five. This year marks the twenty-five anniversary of the first Persian Gulf War, Desert Storm. I was one of the 40,000 women who deployed, an enlisted soldier in the Army. At the time, I’d also already been writing […]

September 17, 2015 | By | 4 Replies More