Born in Norwich, Connecticut, Linda Watkins moved to Michigan when she was four years old. After graduation from college (Carnegie-Mellon University '70), Ms. Watkins relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area where she lived most of her adult life. A Senior Clinical Financial Analyst at Stanford University School of Medicine, Linda was always writing. At work, she created 'long forms' and business plans; at home, she wrote whimsical stories, poems and songs for the delight of her friends and family. In 2006, retired, she moved to Chebeague Island, Maine where she wrote her first novel, MATEGUAS ISLAND.

Today, she resides in Western Michigan with her three rescue dogs (Splatter, Spudley and Jasper) and has just completed the sequel to MATEGUAS which was published as an eBook on December 15, 2014. The print version will follow in early 2015.

For more information, please stop by her personal website, http://www.lindawatkins.biz, or her novel website http://www.mateguasisland.com

You can also follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Linda-Watkins-Author/412758982152044