Linda K. Sienkiewicz, Author

My 5 Questionable Superpowers and How They Mirror my Fictional Heroine

June 29, 2026 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Woman hugs a laptop with a confused or puzzled expression

None of them involve a cape! I may not have the power to fly or read minds, but I’ve developed a few, strange, human superpowers over the years that can also be seen as oddly comforting when you … Continue reading >>

Flattened, Twisted, and Still Alive: The English Language

June 22, 2026 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

The Beauty of a Battered Language: Finley Peter Dunne (1867 – 1936) once quipped, “When we Americans are done with the English language it will look as if it had been run over by a musical … Continue reading >>

To Name or Not to Name: Writing Fiction in a Real Place

June 15, 2026 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

When Fiction Meets a Real Place Anne Tyler amazes me with how she writes about real places, Baltimore, especially, and yet somehow makes them entirely her own. Her fictional neighborhoods feel … Continue reading >>

The Unexpected Comfort of a Spreadsheet: Trying New Things

June 8, 2026 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What We Resist Until We Don’t For years my husband has been extolling the virtues of spreadsheets. Whenever I felt overwhelmed with tasks, he’d calmly say, “Why don’t you make a spreadsheet?” I’d … Continue reading >>

Five Months to Release Date: A Magical Week in Ocracoke

June 1, 2026 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

It’s five months before my novel’s release, and I’m freaking out a little bit. But visiting Ocracoke — the tiny Outer Banks village that became the setting for the story, and where my heart is— … Continue reading >>

Looking at life through glasses, slightly smudged

May 25, 2026 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Nearly every photo of me past the age of eight tells a story in changing eyeglass fashion—just like the oversize frames above, which are weirdly coming back in style. I’ve spent most of my life in … Continue reading >>

Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line