Linda B. Myers
I live on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
I won my first creative contest in the sixth grade for my Clean Up Fix Up Paint Up Week poster which was published in the Belleville, MI Enterprise Roman. This started a career that even a Phi Beta Kappa and BA from Michigan State University could not derail.
The Career Years
I wrote a non-fiction book entitled The Great Lakes: North America’s Inland Sea published by Outdoor World. The publisher is now defunct, and the book is no longer in print. It appears, naked and alone, on eBay every now and again. From this experience I learned how little an author can make.
I became a copywriter in Chicago and eventually a creative director. I learned it not only pays to advertise, it pays to write it, too.
I started my own marketing consultancy twenty years ago under the name of Mycomm One.
Charlie worries most of the time, but Sundance is often quite festive.
And Now
• A few years back, I turned in my stilettos for rain boots and moved to the Pacific Northwest with my grumpy dachshund and noisy parrot. I started to write for real.
• Lessons of Evil is my first book to publish. It’s damn scary if you ask me.
• And speaking of scary: Both of my parents died in nursing homes, and my husband spent four years there before his death. I have an unrivaled record for hours spent with my big butt on an uncomfortable visitor’s chair, observing the comings and goings. Fun House Chronicles offers earthy guidance to anyone facing tough decisions for themselves or their loved ones.
• I am at work on a mystery called Bear in Mind. It should appear late summer 2011.