Linda K. Sienkiewicz, Author

Book Marketing Scams: When Praise Comes with a Price

November 3, 2025 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

A hand grabbing money from a cement floor with rolled dice

The Cost of Being Seen: Fellow authors, beware the marketing scam, an approach that plays on our deepest longing to be seen, to be read, and to have our work touch someone. Praise is powerful bait, … Continue reading >>

How to finish the damn book: Advice from Jacquelyn Mitchard

October 30, 2025 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

If it was easy, maybe we’d all have a book Did you know 97% of books started are never finished? One year after I finished and published my first book, I began to worry I’d never finish book … Continue reading >>

How Leigh Stein’s Murderless Mystery Sparked My Murder Dream

October 27, 2025 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

A dream invasion just in time for Halloween: After a brief exchange with author Leigh Stein on Instagram about how she wrote a murder mystery without a murder (If You’re Seeing This It’s Meant For … Continue reading >>

Five Marriages and a Brother Away from Vincent van Gogh

October 20, 2025 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Linda K. Sienkiewicz painted in the style of van Gogh

We're related, if you squint really hard: You know those people who claim they’re vaguely related to someone famous? As in “My grandmother’s neighbor’s hairdresser once cut Brad Pitt’s hair when he … Continue reading >>

From Highclere to King Tut: The Story Behind Katherine Kirkpatrick’s historical novel

October 13, 2025 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Historical novel To Chase the Glowing Hours

From childhood travels abroad to standing awestruck before Tutankhamun’s golden mask at the Met, Katherine Kirkpatrick has long carried a fascination with history and Egypt’s mysteries. Shaped by both … Continue reading >>

From Treadle to Kenmore: A Family Sewing Legacy That Outlasts JoAnn Fabrics

October 6, 2025 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Passing Down a Sewing Legacy: My grandmother Elsie taught me basics of hand sewing. My mother sewed clothes and doll dresses for me, and then taught me sewing on her Singer treadle machine. I still … Continue reading >>

Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line