Linda Kay Hardie may appear as the classic cat lady, but a conversation quickly revealed the deadly mind for dastardly deeds that she applies to her fiction.

Hardie is vice president of the Short Mystery Fiction Society and is an award-winning author who has appeared in many anthologies, four in 2024 and three in 2023.

She writes crime, horror, and fantasy stories but no romance. She tried once, and everyone ended up dead. Tragic. When not writing adult short stories, she writes stories and books for children, ages 2 to 12.

Linda writes recipes and is the reigning Spam champion for Nevada (yes, the tasty treat canned mystery meat) for her blue-ribbon recipe. Her first writing award was in fifth grade, when she won a first place trophy for an essay on fire safety. In 2022, she was honored with the Sierra Arts Foundation Literary Arts Award for fiction.

Linda is a member of Short Mystery Fiction Writers, Horror Writers Association, Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, and Cat Writers’ Association. She has a master’s in English from the University of Nevada, Reno, where she makes a living as a freelance writer and as staff working for Abyssinian cats.

TIMINGS

• 00:40 Welcome / Introduction
• 3:00 A Knack for Dastardly Deeds
• 7:15 Tech from the Early Days
• 11:35 Word Perfect and Open Office
• 15:25 Tech Refined but not New
• 21:00 Writing Stories, Short vs. Long
• 27:50 Brainstorming / the Subconscious
• 30:30 Charity Anthologies
• 35:30 Independent Bookstores
• 38:40 Closing

Total Run Time = 39:41

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