“Linda K. Sienkiewicz writes with heart, humor, and honesty. Fans of Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Strout, and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine will recognize her gentle wit, unforgettable characters, stories and poetry that explores the truths of human connection.”
Love and Other Incurable Ailments
New novel coming October 27, 2026 from Regal House Publishing!
ISBN-13: 978-1646037056 | Upmarket Fiction
When an anxious overthinker finds discarded love letters, her fixation on a stranger draws her to a rustic island—and straight into chaos, heartbreak, and the unraveling of her carefully constructed life.
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ADVANCE PRAISE for Love and Other Incurable Ailments
“A smart, satisfying story about reinvention, resilience, and the beauty of beginning again.”
—Kristin Bair, author of Clementine Crane Prefers Not To
“Serenity’s meandering, surprising journey toward self-trust shows us that it’s through accepting all the messy parts of ourselves and our lives that we find the freedom to truly live.”
—Dr. Suzanne Manser, psychologist and author of I Hate You
“Funny, voice-driven, and heartbreaking, Love and Other Incurable Ailments speaks to the healing power of taking a leap of faith and finding a soft landing in the waves, sands, and salty air of true community.”
—Heather Frese, author of The Baddest Girl on the Beach and The Saddest Girl on the Planet
“Wow! Wow! Wow! A delightfully engaging tale filled with quirky, insightful, and authentic characters.”
—Diana Muñoz Stewart, #1 Bestselling Romantic Suspense Author
“Breezy, funny, compassionate, and deliciously sexy. The story welcomes you into an oceanside community full of characters you’ll love getting to know and spending time with. A delightful book!”
—Lisa Peers, author of Love at 350°, POPSUGAR Best Book of the Year
“Romance. Travel. Quirkiness. Self-discovery. The reader will find herself welcomed into Serenity’s life and community, and like Serenity, will experience the healing power of connection.”
—Kathie Giorgio, author of Hope Always Rises and Don’t Let Me Keep You
“It’s a book that doesn’t just entertain—it lingers.”
—Suzie Housley for Midwest Book Review
Also available to preorder from Bookshop.org and Amazon
In the Context of Love: a novel
ISBN-10: 1941523048 | ISBN-13: 978-1941523049 | Women’s Fiction
An intensely charged story about family secrets, love and lust.
What makes us step back to examine the events and people that have shaped our lives? And what happens when what we discover leads to more questions?
Angelica, protected by her mother from the perils that may befall young girls, is desperate for passion and excitement. Leaving home after a family secret shatters the fantasies of her childhood, she is caught in a whirlwind of bad decisions and wrong turns. Now an adult with a husband in prison and two children in tow, she begins the harsh, harrowing quest for her own truth . . . and for her first love, the so-called bad boy who was so very right. What will it take for her to embrace life again and find a second chance at love?
PRAISE for In the Context of Love
Review in MER by Bunny Goodjohn
“With tenderness, but without blinking, Linda K. Sienkiewicz turns her eye on the predator-prey savannah of the young and still somehow hopeful.”
—Jacquelyn Mitchard, #1 NY Times Bestselling Author, author of Deep End of the Ocean
“Sienkiewicz’s powerful and richly detailed debut novel is at once a love story, a cautionary tale, and an inspirational journey.”
—Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of National Book Award Finalist American Salvage, and National Bestseller, The Waters
“Absorbing, heartbreaking, compulsively readable and insightful, Linda Sienkiewicz’s In the Context of Love casts a hypnotic spell. This is storytelling at its best.”
—Lewis Robinson, author of The Islanders
“A wild roller coaster ride through love’s lowest lows and highest highs, from dark acts of sexual violence to kisses that taste like freedom. In her boldly compelling narrative, Sienkiewicz captures her heroine’s harrowing journey with both compassion and passion.”
—Elizabeth Searle, author of the Boston Globe Bestseller, A Four-Sided Bed
“Linda Sienkiewicz has written a love letter to the wonder and imperfection of everyday life.”
—Marcy Dermansky, author of critically acclaimed novels, Very Nice and Hurricane Girl
Sleepwalker: poetry chapbook
ISBN-13: 979-8888382233 | Poetry
Linda K. Sienkiewicz’s poems speak with intense fierceness to hard-earned compassion and painful healing after her eldest son’s suicide. Trying to make sense of tragedy, she unearths the heartbreak of motherhood and loss, revealing tender, resilient love in poems that embrace who her son was and what he will never be. Those who have suffered such a loss will know they are not alone.
PRAISE for Sleepwalker
Review in MER by poet Joy Gaines Friedler | Review by author Rick Bailey
“Only a poet as brave as Linda Sienkiewicz can invert grief’s long shadow into a beam that shines between worlds, illuminating the faces and voices of the lost. Reading Sleepwalker, we’re nudged awake from the dream and reminded: hold close those you love, cherish the life you’re in. By their light, these poems salvage and reclaim the heart and its losses.”
—Robert Fanning, author of The Seed Thieves
“Sleepwalker is a moving poetic tribute to Linda Sienkiewicz’s late son, Derek. Resolute, lyrical, and unflinching, these poems are informed by profound loss even as they pulse with a mother’s capacious love. A brilliant and devastating account of parenthood as the junction where both our greatest gifts and our greatest fears sometimes converge.”
—Kelly Fordon, author of Goodbye Toothless House
“In Sleepwalker, Linda Sienkiewicz writes with tenderness, clarity, and breathtaking vulnerability about her eldest son, who took his own life…I admire these poems deeply. I wish they did not have to be written.”
—Kathleen McGookey, author of Instructions for My Imposter
Gordy and the Ghost Crab: children’s picture book
In North Carolina, find Gordy and the Ghost Crab at Buxton Village Books and Books to be Red
Email Linda for signed copies
ISBN-10: 1941523226 | ISBN-13: 978-1941523223 | Children’s | Children’s Marine Life Book
Gordy is afraid of the crashing ocean waves and a strange creature he spies: a ghost crab skittering across the beach. It doesn’t help when his brother tells him it’s a ghost crab that will pinch off all his toes! Highlighting empathy, problem solving and the value of caring for nature, this children’s picture book includes fun facts about different types of common crabs and delivers a gentle conservation message for children Pre-K to age 8.
PRAISE for Gordy and the Ghost Crab
“This is an awesome story teaching about crabs and the health of our beaches. Gordy learns fast about the importance of preserving wildlife in its natural habitats. I highly recommend it for the young reader.”
—Midwest Book Review
“Gordy and the Ghost Crab invites readers to share a beach day adventure like no other. Blending sea life curiosity with an act of compassion, this story is sure to become a favorite for youth of all ages, from the read-to-me crowd on up.
—Jean Alicia Elster, author of the Joe Joe in the City series, Who’s Jim Hines? and The Colored Car.
“Gordy and the Ghost Crab is a delightful tale written in rhyme and packed with information.
—Mary Ann Wehler, teacher and author of Walking in Deep Snow: Poems
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