About

Linda Collison's composite career has included registered nurse, skydiving instructor, author, writing coach and marketer. In the past she served as director of marketing and script writer for a small audiovisual production company based in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Linda’s articles and award-winning fiction have been published in a variety of magazines and she is the author of several novels. In 1992 Linda married Bob Russell, a fellow adventurer she met skydiving. Bob introduced Linda to sailing and together they’ve journeyed thousands of nautical miles on their own sailboat and as crew members aboard the Bark Endeavour, a replica of Captain James Cook’s famous ship. These experiences inspired numerous published articles and Linda’s historical novel Star-Crossed, a New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2007. Looking for Redfeather, her most recent novel, was a Foreword Reviews finalist for Indie Book of the Year - 2014 and has been adapted as a stage play.

Other Works

  • Nurse Kit Carson's Knife & Gun Club; the first five episodes

    2021
  • Rhode Island Rendezvous; book 3 of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventures

    2020
  • Blue Moon Luck

    2015
  • Barbados Bound: Book 1 of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventures

    2012
  • Surgeon's Mate; Book 2 of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventures

    2011
  • Looking for Redfeather

    2007
  • Star-Crossed

    2006

Awards and Recognition

  • Looking for Redfeather -- Foreword Reviews finalist for Indie Book of the Year 2014
  • New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2007 (Star-Crossed; Knopf)
  • Maui Writers Conference Grand Prize 1996
  • Water Ghosts -- Foreword Reviews finalist for Indie Book of the Year, YA, 2015