Linda grew up in Loveland, Colorado, the youngest of six children. She moved with her parents to California when she was 16 and spent the next 16 years of her life in the Bay Area before moving home to Colorado and finally to Wyoming. In her writing, Linda draws from her vast and varied experience with people facing domestic violence, hunger, homelessness, mental illness and suicide. Her nonfiction is full of practical strategies and her fictional characters leap off the page with all the nuances, strengths and frailties that draw readers to her work.Her current projects include the third Jake and Emma Mystery, "Justice for Katie," due out in February 2015 and a new edition of "Life Isn't Just Luck" to give readers even more real-world advice and activities, due out in the spring. Linda is also working on what will be a series of short stories for elementary-aged children, "The Adventures of Ringo the Ghost Cat." The first should be out in the spring.Follow Linda on Twitter https://twitter.com/LJCrowder Check out her Author Site www.lindajcrowder.com for news and snippets of upcoming books.Find her on Facebook - She loves to share books she's read and recommends and she enjoys chatting with readers. www.facebook.com/lindajcrowderauthorLove her nonfiction? Connect with Linda on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/lindajcrowder/