I was born and raised in the beautiful wine country of Northern California. I graduated from Healdsburg High in 1976 then joined the U.S. Army a year later. After three years I received an honorable discharge and moved back to Healdsburg. I met my husband, Robert, the following year. We got married in 1983 and we're still together! After 15 years of marriage, we adopted a baby girl. Her name is Michelle. She is 9 years old now and truly a gift from God. We currently live in a small town in Shasta County. The town is so small it doesn't even have a traffic light or a gas station! It does have a diner housed in a trailer, but the food is good! I've always enjoyed writing but didn't know it was a gift that needed to be used to uplift others and glorify God until a few years ago. "Singing Winds" started out in a cheap, spiral-bound notebook. When I transferred it to my computer years later, God opened my eyes. Then when I casually mentioned my story to a friend, she wanted to read it. It wasn't even done yet but I printed out what I had and she loved it! Now it is published - yea! What inspired this story, other than the Creator, Himself, is my love of Native American culture and history. I'm a bit of a romantic too!

Having my first book published is a great achievement to me!

I'm currently working on a contemporary romance called "Through The Eyes Of Liberty". It is about an optometry student from California who goes through a bad relationship. Her therapist suggests that she complete her externship somewhere where the need is great so she could get her mind off of her ex-boyfriend. She ends up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana. Upon meeting a Blackfeet soldier who recently returned from Iraq, her world is turned upside down and all her plans to work in her uncle's upscale optical office are "tossed out the window". Through her experiences she learns to trust God and allow Him to map out her future. She realizes the hard way that even the best laid out plans aren't always the right ones.

Linda Strawn, Christian romance author
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