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Short story, The Killing Room, TBP by At Bay Press, Winnipeg. Picture book, Finding Moufette, TBP Oct 2023. Novella, Heads I Win Tails You Lose, TBP March 2024, AOS Publishing. Juvenile time-travel novel, Jason and the Wonderhorn (Fogbound Through Time Book 1) now available as an e-book with Kindle and Kobo. Juvenile narrative nonsense poem appeared in Cloud Lake Literary, 2022. Two poems in Balm, Raven's Quoth Press, 2021 and three pieces in Our Pandemic Times, Blue Denim Press, 2021. Memoir, Fearless and Determined: Two Years Teaching in a One-Room School was published by Blue Demin Press, 2019. Two act comedy, A Certain Singing Teacher, premiered in 2017 now available from Playwright's Guild Canada. Novella, Heads I Win, was short-listed in Quattro Books 2014 novella competition. Novel,That Summer in Franklin, Second Story Press, Toronto, 2011, has been compared to the writing of Margaret Laurence and Maeve Binchy (Open Book Ontario 2013) She has read in libraries and bookstores across Canada and is popular with Book Clubs. Since Covid, she has given many ZOOM readings, taught a ZOOM Power Point Creative Writing Course to Toronto Seniors and presented two virtual WITS readings to Cobourg, Ontario area schools in 2021. Her previous publications include plays, poetry, short fiction and TV scripts. She has worked as a free-lance journalist, taught creative writing at several community colleges, hosted author reading series and promoted her work internationally. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1940, she moved to Ontario at age nine. After Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and Toronto Teachers' College, she taught for two years in a southern Ontario one room school. She has a B.A. from the University of Guelph and began writing full time in 1981. Married with three adult children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, she has lived in many Canadian communities from Kamloops, BC to Cobourg, Ontario, where she now makes her home.
An accomplished novelist, playwright and poet, the author tailors her novel, poetry, and play writing workshops to specific grade levels. She reads from her works, discusses how each was created, and involves the students in writing from their own imaginations.
Kindergarten to Grade 3 - Linda reads from her picture books, then talks to children about creating their own stories. Depending on their age, students either draw a story or print one, sharing with the class once finished.
Grades 4 to 7 - Linda, a former teacher, uses her Wonder Horn time travel series to motivate young writers. In person or virtually, using Power Point, she talks about the WW1 bugle that inspired her series, reads from her novel and then involves students in beginning their own time travel adventure. A special artifact, a portal and they're off into a new and exciting landscape. Students share stories once finished.
The first in the series, JASON AND THE WONDER HORN, set in Canada and medieval Germany, is ideal for grade four medieval studies. Teacher's Guides are available from the author's website.
Grades 7 to 12 - tailors genre to grade level and student interest using excerpts from her published works. Sets up formats that motivate students to begin their own stories, plays and poems.
An accomplished novelist, playwright and poet, the author tailors her novel, poetry, and play writing workshops to specific grade levels. She reads from her works, discusses how each was created, and involves the students in writing from their own imaginations.
Kindergarten to Grade 3 - Linda reads from her picture books, then talks to children about creating their own stories. Depending on their age, students either draw a story or print one, sharing with the class once finished.
Grades 4 to 7 - Linda, a former teacher, uses her Wonder Horn time travel series to motivate young writers. In person or virtually, using Power Point, she talks about the WW1 bugle that inspired her series, reads from her novel and then involves students in beginning their own time travel adventure. A special artifact, a portal and they're off into a new and exciting landscape. Students share stories once finished.
The first in the series, JASON AND THE WONDER HORN, set in Canada and medieval Germany, is ideal for grade four medieval studies. Teacher's Guides are available from the author's website.
Grades 7 to 12 - tailors genre to grade level and student interest using excerpts from her published works. Sets up formats that motivate students to begin their own stories, plays and poems.
An accomplished novelist, playwright and poet, the author tailors her novel, poetry, and play writing workshops to specific grade levels. She reads from her works, discusses how each was created, and involves the students in writing from their own imaginations.
Kindergarten to Grade 3 - Linda reads from her picture books, then talks to children about creating their own stories. Depending on their age, students either draw a story or print one, sharing with the class once finished.
Grades 4 to 7 - Linda, a former teacher, uses her Wonder Horn time travel series to motivate young writers. In person or virtually, using Power Point, she talks about the WW1 bugle that inspired her series, reads from her novel and then involves students in beginning their own time travel adventure. A special artifact, a portal and they're off into a new and exciting landscape. Students share stories once finished.
The first in the series, JASON AND THE WONDER HORN, set in Canada and medieval Germany, is ideal for grade four medieval studies. Teacher's Guides are available from the author's website.
Grades 7 to 12 - tailors genre to grade level and student interest using excerpts from her published works. Sets up formats that motivate students to begin their own stories, plays and poems.
