Linda Alexander has been writing professionally since 1987–starting with local newspaper pieces, then into national newspaper and magazine articles and then books. “I’ve written since I was a kid and there was never anything else I wanted to do. I’m also an avid researcher, and big into genealogy or, as I call it, “digging up dead people.” For novels, characterizations are nothing less than spiritual personalities that want to be heard . . . whether that’s literal or fictional,” says Linda.
“Ever listen to Barry Manilow? Imagine if someone of Barry’s standing in the pop music world, someone who sang his kind of music and had become as overwhelmingly popular, were unhappily married and found himself face-to-face with the possibility of happiness with a young woman so totally opposite him and the world in which he lived . . . how would such a world-renowned figure handle it? Toss in danger, some loonies, and a whole lotta romance– you have the basis for my book, Weekends In New England. Someone just read it and said they thoroughly enjoyed it though they don’t usually read “books like this.” Funny thing is–I don’t usually read “books like this,” either . . . but this story had to be told and the characters picked me to tell it.”
“My currently best-selling book is Reluctant Witness: Robert Taylor, Hollywood, and Communism, the biography of Golden Era movie star, Robert Taylor. It tells of his early roots as son of a Midwestern doctor, his meteoric rise as a Hollywood heartthrob during Hollywood’s glamour heydays, into his middle years as a seasoned movie and TV star, a public figure increasingly involved in world politics, and then his early death at the age of 58 from throat cancer. The book’s been out a year and is doing well.”
“I have 2 books due out this year–a re-write of Until Next Time, my 1st novel. It is a story of dark sexy intrigue and will be called It Will Happen Again; this time it will be set near Opelousas, Louisiana. The 2nd, due out late 2009, is another Hollywood biography, A Maverick Life: The Jack Kelly Story. Jack Kelly starred in TV’s Maverick in the ’60s along with James Garner, many movies, and a lot of episodic TV. He also served as mayor of Huntington Beach, California . . . and he had a theatrical family background. Interesting man.”
You can find Linda on Facebook: “Linda J Alexander,” and on Twitter: http://twitter.com/LindaAlexander . Visit http://www.lindajalexander.net .
