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Shining Light on our Ladies

By lindacollison|2015-10-27T22:49:52-07:00October 26th, 2015|Categories: Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, women sailors, writing and publishing|Tags: #LightOnTheLadies, How we Write, nautical historical fiction, Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series|

I'm delighted for Patricia MacPherson, my 18th-century cross-dressing protagonist, to[...]

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Water Ghosts: Featured in Literary Fiction Book Reviews

By lindacollison|2016-01-26T15:58:36-07:00October 23rd, 2015|Categories: audiobooks, Water Ghosts, YA|Tags: audiobooks, Literary Fiction Book Reviews, Ming Dynasty, nautical fiction, Water Ghosts, YA paranormal|

"Linda Collison’s Young Adult novel, Water Ghosts, is the story[...]

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Strong Female Protags Wearin’ the Pink

By lindacollison|2015-10-11T21:52:58-07:00October 11th, 2015|Categories: How We Write; a series of essays by guest authors, writing and publishing|Tags: strong female protagonists|

The days of the stereotypical helpless heroine of the romantic[...]

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Writing Prompts: A single sentence can keep you afloat

By lindacollison|2015-10-04T13:58:19-07:00October 4th, 2015|Categories: writing and publishing|Tags: sentences, writer's block, writing prompts|

Message in a bottle: Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! I'm a writer,[...]

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Water Ghosts

By lindacollison|2016-01-26T16:05:44-07:00September 12th, 2015|Categories: adventure, audiobooks, nautical history, ships and boats, Water Ghosts, writing and publishing, YA|Tags: #AmazonGiveaway, Intrepid Dragon, Princess Taiping, Water Ghosts|

Chinese ghosts... I have an abiding fascination in the long[...]

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The death of Creativity?

By lindacollison|2015-09-07T08:59:30-07:00September 7th, 2015|Categories: writing and publishing|Tags: creativity, writing process|

My Labor Day reflections on creative writing: Creativity is not[...]

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Bad choices make good fiction

By lindacollison|2015-08-02T22:35:24-07:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: coming-of-age fiction, what inspires me, writing and publishing|Tags: coming of age, Looking for Redfeather, teenagers|

Bad choices -- we've all made them and they can[...]

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Teenaged eunuchs

Teenaged eunuchs

By lindacollison|2015-08-01T18:10:24-07:00August 1st, 2015|Categories: history, Water Ghosts, writing and publishing, YA|Tags: eunuchs, Water Ghosts, Zheng He|

Water Ghosts took a long time to write, mostly because[...]

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Go Set a Watchman

By lindacollison|2015-07-25T13:48:13-07:00July 18th, 2015|Categories: books, coming-of-age fiction, history, writing and publishing|Tags: civil rights, coming of age, feminism, Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, Southern American Fiction, themes in literature, To Kill a Mockingbird|

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird influenced me greatly as[...]

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Award-winning manuscript to be published 20 years later

By lindacollison|2015-07-25T13:48:51-07:00July 16th, 2015|Categories: Blue Moon Luck, coming-of-age fiction, memoir, writing and publishing|Tags: 1980's music, American South, Blue Moon Luck, coming of age, Don McQuinn, Elizabeth Engstrom, Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, John Saul, Maui Writers Contest, mid-century American culture, music, new adult, nostalgia, Ron Howard, West Virginia|

Twenty years ago I wrote a novel, one of my[...]

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