I believe in the power of stories.

That is the whole reason I write.

My stories are inspired by women’s adversities. 

Writing is my passion and delight and I write ‘something’ almost every day. My novels are primarily fiction; some are drawn on social subjects that touch close to my heart; they are my ‘stories of the heart‘. When I’m not writing I spend time in the kitchen going through old family recipes, cooking up something yummy, and dreaming up my next story. I am a lover of animals and nature and enjoy being outdoors.

As a prairie girl, I am an adventurer at heart. But, if asked, I never would have imagined sailing the North Pacific and across the entire South Pacific, climbing a mountain, or trekking across the north of England – but I have done those things and more.

Most recently I have begun writing youth and young reader novels

under the pen name
Visit Page: Professor Scry

Writing for young adults is a refreshing change.

I was born and raised in a remote farming community in northwest Alberta, Canada. It is where the Boreal forest rises up to a ridge of hills before sweeping down to meet the great prairies. Books have always been an important part of my life and as a child it was my passage to places I never imagined existed. When young, I often looked out upon the Clear Hills dreaming of the day when I would go over their peaks to the other side. Maybe, had my bedroom window faced south, I might have imagined myself leaping over the steep banks of the mighty Peace River. As an adult I realized there were not as many opportunities to the north, and I went south.

After leaving the security of my little farming community, I became witness to a multitude of  social issues . I write about these topics, firstly to get a deeper insight into what others face, but also to provide my readers with a better understanding of those challenges.

Where Linda writes

Linda’s favourite place to write is in her home, in northern Alberta. From her front door the great prairies edge the boreal forest and the Rocky Mountains peak the horizon. Some of her stories are inspired by heartbreak and the deeply felt anguish people are exposed to because of extenuating circumstances. She has more recently moved towards less serious issues, and science fiction. Under the persona of Professor Scry, Linda takes her young readers beyond the imaginable, opening their psychic eye to explore subconscious thoughts.

Late bloomer

Although Linda has been writing her entire life, her first book was not published until 2013. Her life contained a mélange of writing, gardening, and motherhood. Linda’s career was in banking, first as a Financial Advisor, then later as a Business Account Manager.

Many of Linda’s first stories were drafted while she was living on a sailboat, when anchored in various ports between Victoria, Canada and Bundaberg, Australia. Though her stories were written while the sea lapped against the hull of the sailboat, the warm breeze sang in the rigging and she was lulled by the gentle sway of the ocean, those stories were centered around dysfunctional families, homelessness, missing and murder indigenous women and women’s right to choose.

As a lover of historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction, dystopian and biographies of interesting people, I never allow a really good story to go amiss.

To Linda, reading and writing is more than a passion.

It has become an addiction. 

When Linda is not writing or off on another adventure,

she spends time with her daughter and her fur babies.

Shaping my own world

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Linda is an avid reader, lover of nature and adventurer at heart, and happiest when in the garden or hiking a wilderness trail. In 2005, she untied the dock lines of her sailboat and sailed away from Canadian shores, setting out to see the world. After five years of living off the grid, and visiting dozens of islands, her last port of call was Australia before returning to Canada.

  • My first sailing adventure was to Alaska, before going down the west coast of the
  • United States and to
  • Mexico, before going south and west among the many islands within the South Pacific.
  • French Polynesia (Marquesas Islands, Society Islands, Tuamotu Islands)
  • Cook Islands (Rarotonga and Palmerston)
  • Niue,
  • Tonga,
  • Fiji
  • New Zealand offered me a long overdue rest and a chance to explore the islands before sailing north to
  • Vanuatu
  • New Caledonia then ended my sailing journey in
  • Australia

After the anchor was dropped for the last time, I began compiling my notes into manuscripts and in 2013 published my first novel. 

In 2012, I set off on another adventure, a self-guided walking trek,

Wainwright’s Coast to Coast walk across the north of England.

I walked the entire width of England, from St Bees, in the west, to Robin Hood’s Bay, on the North Sea. This quintessential English walking excursion begins with a climb up to St Bees Head, a mirror image of Robin Hood’s Bay on the opposite coast. The Lake District’s the scenery was at its most rugged. The landscape of Eden Valley offered a softer look, with no great climbs or descents. With glimpses of the moors, and the North Sea in the distance, my heart was racing for I knew I was achieving my goal – to dip my shoes in the North Sea.

Weighed down with a box full of video, I sorted, edited and produced 30 travel documentaries. I am happy to share them with you  for free.

Summing up my adventures:

It is strange, the emotion that one feels when completing such adventures, sad in a way when I realized that they were done, yet exhilarating at the same time. Experiencing the wonders of the world changed me. I see everything in a new way, a wiser way, I suppose, and am so happy to have had these wonderful experiences.

I had achieved things that only a person who had travelled the same journey could relate to and I finished my adventures without a welcoming party to celebrate my success; not that one was needed for I knew what I had done. I had sailed the North and South Pacific, and walked 200 miles across the north of England. Those memories are now tucked deeply inside me, to relive again and again.

MY MOTTO: 

Be open-minded,

go against the grain,

develop an insatiable curiosity,

establish a sense of purpose,

grasp new complexities and

be sensitive to others,

for every person has a story of their own.

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: with nfReads Interview with Linda,