Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I don’t want to say that I’m an author with a major identity crisis, but…
As author Linda Cousine I write “Wit Lit” (satire) of a hormonal woman “on the edge” in my Middle-Aged Hottie series: Hotter Than Ever, Too Hot to Hold, Hot to Trot. Don’t like humor and want to cry buckets, instead? Then my two-tissue romantic suspense novel, Twenty-One Trees is just what the doctor ordered.
When I’m sick of adulting and want to channel my inner tween, I write as Linda Rey with my Confessions of a Nerdy Girl series (Top Secret Diary, Unlucky Thirteen, Nerdy Ever After, Nerdy Girls Don’t), and my newest release for kids ages 4 to 8, I Barfed On the Bus, a laugh-out-loud rhyming book based on my second grade bus-barfing experience, forty-odd years ago.
All of the Lindas live in Orange County, California.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book, Unlucky Thirteen, Diary #2: Confessions of a Nerdy Girl (by Linda Rey) is written in diary form, and are entries written by a thirteen-year-old girl and dedicated to the mother who gave her away for adoption as a baby.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Does eating cereal and drinking wine while writing count?
What authors, or books have influenced you?
For my adult titles, I’d say that Danielle Steel has been a big part of my life. Judy Blume is my major influencer when it comes to my books for younger readers.
What are you working on now?
I’m getting ready to start the third book in my Diary series of Confessions of a Nerdy Girl, where “Willa” will write from summer camp the year of her parent’s divorce.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I promote wherever I can! Amazon ads, Pretty-Hot, Book Bub, Facebook, Twitter.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just go for it!! I hadn’t had an English or writing class since high school when I wrote my first book in my fifties. But let me say, you need to treat writing as a career, in that I spent hundreds of hours (and thousands of dollars) learning the craft of writing with classes, videos, etc.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
If you don’t like where you’re standing, move your feet.
What are you reading now?
Game of Thrones.
What’s next for you as a writer?
To keep on writing, and eventually branch out to doing school visits for children.
What is your favorite book of all time?
The Secret Garden.
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