Linda Jacobs

Born a university brat and trained at the Master’s level in Geology, Linda was one of Exxon Corporation’s first woman field geologists. Before her recent move to New Mexico, she worked for a number of oil and gas companies on the front line where new fields are found.Fiction came to her when she was very young. Already an avid reader, she’d hit a ball against a wall and tell herself stories. By age eleven, she taught herself to hunt and peck on her Dad’s old Royal Typewriter. Despite the spotty ribbon, she started writing novels. A cathartic burning ceremony her senior year of high school fortunately prevents Linda, or anyone else, knowing just how awful her early work was.

Her love affair with the Yellowstone region began when she did Geology Field Camp near the park. She has since visited many times, studying the archives of the park’s natural history and man’s brief tenure there. Her upcoming release from Medallion, SUMMER OF FIRE, is about firefighters at the Yellowstone fires of ’88 and is the first in her women’s adventure series set in Yellowstone. The second, RAIN OF FIRE, will be published by Medallion in June 2006

Additional completed works includes a Romeo and Juliet romance and a screenplay thriller about a woman whose husband is accused of assassinating the President.

Married to fellow geologist Richard Jacobs, with whom she owns a consulting company, Linda divides her time between the West and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. They both enjoy adventure travel, having scuba dived the Caribbean, taken two African safaris, and gone alpine hiking in New Zealand and the Spanish Pyrenees.

And Writing as Christine Carroll

Christine Carroll first discovered romance with Rosemary Rogers’s Sweet Savage Love. How thrilling it was when Steve dragged Ginny under the wagon and ripped her bodice! Romance has come a long way since those early days of genre, and so has Christine, having graduated from the sidelines to writing her first contemporary single title. Along the road to publication, she studied with RWA® co-founder and teacher Rita Gallagher and has watched a number of her fellow students graduate from the manuscript stage to selling. She recommends that aspiring romance authors join both RWA® National and their local chapter, where the multi-published rub elbows with, and give advice to members who aren’t as far along. Christine’s first release with Medallion, Children of Dynasty, is a modern day Romeo and Juliet set in San Francisco. She is working on a second romance set in the Napa Valley.

Achievements:

*Finalists for the RT Reviewer’s Choice Awards 2005 for Children of Destiny (w/a Christine Carroll) for Best Romance from a Small Press

Website

http://www.readlindajacobs.com and http://www.readchristinecarroll.com