Putting words together has
been Linda's lifelong passion. She's constantly writing: novels,
short stories, magazine articles, educational texts for the insurance
industry, and other materials for a variety of professionals and business
organizations.
Her
first published work was the crossword puzzle she created in Mr. Calen's
fifth grade class. (Does anyone remember mimeographs?) The
extra credit he awarded her for her creativity, along with the extra credit
he awarded anyone who completed the puzzle, was all the encouragement she
needed. From there, she moved on to short stories and magazine
articles. In 2002, Linda became published in newspaper with her column,
Business Sense, which appeared in The Weekender, an entertainment
monthly in Orlando, Florida. She continued to pen her
column until the newspaper ceased publication in November 2009.
The publication of numerous
magazine articles followed, most notably in
Three Rivers
Lifestyle, a regional celebrating the best of western Montana, and
Rough Notes,
an insurance industry trade magazine.
Second Time Around,
Linda's first mystery to be published, received a nomination for best
Mystery/Suspense fiction in the 2010 EPIC Award competition. Linda is
currently working on a romantic suspense novel and a non-fiction book.
In addition to fiction, Linda
is a freelance writer and has been
multi-published in that field for many years. She develops and writes
career development workshops, procedures manuals, and continuing education
seminars, workshops, texts, and online courses. Linda owns and operates
two insurance businesses in Missoula, Montana--Faulkner
Education Services and the
Linda Faulkner Insurance
Agency. Her other writing endeavors include working with
professionals and businesses to produce speeches, website content, marketing
materials, and on book collaborations. To visit Linda's website for
her freelance writing, visit
www.lindafaulkner.com.
Linda is a member of
Mystery Writers of
America, Romance
Writers of America, the Rocky
Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America,
Sisters
in Crime, and EPIC.
When she's not writing or
working, Linda can be found exploring western Montana--where she lives with
her husband, Stephen, two dogs, two cats, and a recently adopted macaw.
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and associates.