 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 debut 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,
was published by Medallion Press in June, 2006 ... and the
third, Lake
of Fire, released
in October, 2007.
Linda also writes
romance as Christine Carroll for Medallion Press.
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.
Web Site: www.readlindajacobs.com.
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Awards
and Nominations:
Summer
of Fire – 2006 WILLA Literary Award
winner for Original Softcover Fiction
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