Linda K. Sienkiewicz’s forthcoming novel, Love and Other Incurable Ailments, upmarket fiction, is now available for preorder from Regal House Publishing. Release date is October 27, 2026. Here’s her official author page.
Review for Love and Other Incurable Ailments from author and memoirist Rick Bailey.
“The Long Game: How Asking for Help Landed Me a Book Deal” essay was accepted for publication in Women Writers, Women’s Books.
“Writing Beyond Your Own Experience Requires More Than Research: Hiring a Sensitivity Reader” was accepted for publication in Women’s Fiction Writers Association Write-Away Blog
“Writing Helped Me Love Again After Losing Everything” was accepted for publication in Feminine Collective
“Tall as Tomorrow,” Linda’s poem about her granddaughter visiting her grandmother, was accepted for publication in the spring 2026 issue of Peninsula Poets.
“The Book of Quiet Girls Who Burn,” Linda’s poem in response to President Trump telling a female reporter, “Quiet. Quiet, piggy,” was published online in New Verse News.
“Spellcheck Nation,” a poem about words most searched for spelling state by state, was accepted by Stone Poetry Quarterly for 2026, and “Like Learning a New Language,” a poem about Linda looking through her mother’s things as a girl, was accepted by Midwest Review for 2026.
Book Bound: Supporting Indie Bookstores: Linda’s interviews with two bookstore owners:
Dockside Books, an Up-North Haven for Thinkers, Adventurers and Creatives, in Charlevoix, Michigan
Novel A Book and Sandwich Shop: Books, Bites and a Big Dream: Inside Rochester, Michigan’s Charming Indie Bookstore.
Review of Sleepwalker: by author and memorist Rick Bailey
Review of Sleepwalker in MER: “…There is an under-weaving thread of, not exactly guilt, but rather a keen sense of knowing based on heredity in this poetry novella. Whether genetic or not, we take on the calm and anxieties, the kindnesses and fears of our parents. This is why, in part, the pain of losing a child to suicide is unbearable…” ~ Joy Gaines-Friedler
Review of Sleepwalker “Follow the author’s journey processing a world in which the stars around her moon have gone out.” ~ Cheri Caddick, in Pink Panther Magazine, Volume 14, Number 2
Writing and Wellness :
“Why Poetry Was the Perfect Outlet for This Mother’s Writing About Suicide”
Rochester Media – The Community Edge:
“Local Author Pens a New Book of Poems about the Painful Healing of her Son’s Suicide”
Poetry Vespers video recording
Poetry reading, sponsored by the First UU Detroit Poetry Vespers, features Linda’s new chapbook Sleepwalker, and includes poetry, essay, music and video.
A Little Too Quiet Podcast
Recorded for the Ferndale Public Library, 2021: “A conversation with award-winning author and illustrator Linda Sienkiewicz about the creative process and her new children’s picture book Gordy and the Ghost Crab, with host Jeff Milo.
Bookworm for Kids Review of Gordy and the Ghost Crab
Donald Levin’s blog:
Linda discusses the most challenging aspect of writing and illustrating Gordy and the Ghost Crab
Idol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations that Changed Their Lives,
Linda’s essay “My Horrible Celebrity Crush” is published in an anthology edited by Elizabeth Searle and Tamra Wilson (McFarland & Company, June 2018)
The Darkest Moment in my Writing Career
“Life is a constantly evolving journey of self-discovery. I don’t know if there’s ever an end to such a journey when you lose someone to suicide.” Linda’s essay on Women Writers, Women(‘s) Books
Listen to Your Mother:
Linda starred in the 2017 Metro-Detroit cast of the national live storytelling event that gives motherhood a microphone.
Mom Egg Review Literature & Art:
In the Context of Love is…a well-integrated treatment of love and family. Sienkiewicz’s decision to cast the narrative as a loose address to Joe affords the story a layer of suspense that remains wonderfully unresolved until the novel’s very end.”
Between the Lines
Radio interview: Michigan author Linda Sienkiewicz painted and wrote poetry. But it was a celebrity crush that inspired her to write her novel, In the Context of Love. Sienkiewicz talks with Zinta Aistars of WMUK Michigan Public Radio about the fun, but also the personal tragedy, that inspired her work
Through the Eyes of Women
Radio interview on NPR station KHSU – “Exploring women’s political, social/economic lives, as well as the obstacles and restrictions experienced in the form of discrimination… We seek to celebrate women and all their contributions to the local and global communities.”
Writing and Wellness
Guest post about healthy writing habits
Why I used You in my Novel
Point of View essay on Women Writers, Women(‘s) Books
Getting Past the Opening: Where to Start your Novel
on Women Writers, Women(‘s) Books
“A Dark Domestic Tale“
Interview: Between the Lines, by author Ellen Meeropol
Lisa Romeo Writes
Interview: “Linda Sienkiewicz on her Debut Novel and the Twisty Road That Got Her There,” by writer Lisa Romeo