Linda is a member of the following writer's organizations:  Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, EPIC, Rocky Mountain Chapter/MWA, Montana Chapter/RWA.  She served as president of RWA's New England Chapter from 1990-1994.

Linda has written several mystery and romance novels and Second Time Around, a mystery, was released by ePress-Online in January 2009.  It was nominated for a 2010 EPIC Award as the best Mystery/Suspense novel of the year; the winner of that award will be announced at EPIC's annual conference on March 7, 2010 in New Orleans, LA.

Linda served as a staff writer for Three Rivers Lifestyle, a quarterly magazine that shared the best of western Montana.  Some of her photos were also published in the magazine and she continues to collaborate with the magazine's owner and editor, David Baumstark, on other projects.

Linda also wrote a monthly column, Business Sense, in The Weekender, a community entertainment magazine in suburban Orlando, Florida.  Her column appeared from the publication's debut in July 2002 until it ceased publication in November 2009.

Linda's career has always involved the insurance industry, where a huge body of her work has been published in various formats.  The majority of her projects were written for Faulkner Education Services, for whom she continues to develop and write insurance continuing education and pre-licensing texts, seminars, workbooks, and outlines.  Linda also develops and writes professional career development workshops, which have been presented at many western Montana business organizations and educational facilities, including the Missoula and Butte campuses of the University of Montana.  Faulkner Education Services also partners with a number of insurance organizations and associations to present her work, including The National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research, the Montana Insurance Education Foundation, and the Professional Insurance Agents Western Alliance.  Linda is a regular contributor to Rough Notes, a national insurance trade magazine, and contracts to national insurance continuing education organizations for the writing of online insurance continuing education texts.

Although Linda was born in New York City, she moved to southeastern Massachusetts when she was a child and considers herself a native New Englander.  Until, of course, she passes all tests and becomes a native Montanan.  She and her husband passed the wildfire test during August of 2007, when they were evacuated from their home for ten days.  The Black Cat Fire burned one-half mile from their house, which is nearly two miles off the highway up an unpaved mountain road.  (See the Photos page for an up-close look of the scenery when driving down the highway away from her home that summer.)  The final test to pass for native Montanan status, as far as Linda is concerned, is making it through a typical western Montana winter.  Since her neighbors report they haven't had one of those in ten years, she's figuring it'll happen sooner rather than later!  (FYI, the true, died-in-the wool, native Montanans will never consider her one of their own--but she figures everyone has a right to her own reality.)

Linda's three grown children, two granddaughters, father, and sister all live in either Rhode Island or Massachusetts.  Missing them is the only downside of living in Montana.  In addition to her husband Stephen, she has plenty of companions when loneliness strikes:  two dogs, two cats, and Stephen's two cockatoos.