I write adventure.
Born in Baltimore, Linda Collison moved west as a young woman cobbling together a composite career that has included nursing, parenting, teaching skydiving, freelance writing, volunteer firefighting, and other occupations. Linda and her husband, Bob Russell (they met skydiving) wrote two guidebooks in the 1990s based on their travel adventures. The husband-and-wife team has sailed many blue water miles together, aboard their sloop Topaz, based in Hawaii. Their three-week sailing experience aboard the HM Bark Endeavour, a replica of Captain Cook’s 18th century ship, inspired Linda to write Star-Crossed, a nautical historical novel published by Knopf. The New York Public Library chose Star-Crossed as one of the Books for the Teen Age — 2007.
“Let’s make a movie,” she said.
Two years ago, Bob and I partnered with Ground Rush Productions and 411 Films to produce a documentary about the evolution of […]
Wildfires in Paradise
Fire Memoir
October, 1996
Just before dinner Bob and I were paged to respond to a fire on the slopes of Mauna Kea. Several […]
Where have all the flowers gone?
Dad taught my sisters and me to sing the Marine Corps hymn as soon as we were old enough to carry a […]
A question of Time
A question of Time
I’m struggling with the grammar of it all
Those verbs pester me
Worry […]
