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Linda L. Zern

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Born
in Orlando, Florida, The United States
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Ray Bradbury; Pat Frank; Shirley Jackson

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June 2013

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Linda L. Zern lives, works, and dreams in Central Florida.

Born in Florida, raised on sunshine and bug spray, the author read every cereal box she could find and every book she could get her hands on, and when other people's books ran out, she started writing her own:

The Pocket Fairies of Middleburg, The Long-Promised Song, ZippityZern's: Uncommon Nonsense and Fifty More; MOONCALF (a finalist for the Space Coast Writers' Guild DON ARGO AWARD) BEYOND THE STRANDLINE (Book I); Following the Strandline (Book II); Ebook short story prequels: "Puppies", "Darby's Chickens", "Storm"; (COMING SOON) The Gryphon's Glade, a rural contemporary fantasy.

"I write because there can never be too many good books or the people who love them." Linda L. Zern
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Beyond The Strandline

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Mooncalf

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Following The Strandline (S...

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Fest is Short for Festival



My husband lived on Amelia Island when he was a Little League playing kid. He was a pitcher. He was a pitcher with a bad temper. He once told his catcher to let the baseball go by so that it hit the umpire who, Sherwood believed, was something that I can’t repeat. 

(I would repeat the something here, but I can’t repeat the something here because Sherwood was a nine-year-old with a foul mout

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“A world made of skulls was no place for roses, and it was time to plant more than bones. (From the novel Following the Strandline)”
Linda L. Zern, Following The Strandline

“Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
Stephen King

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury

“How does one become a butterfly?" she asked.
"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”
Trina Paulus

“A world made of skulls was no place for roses, and it was time to plant more than bones. (From the novel Following the Strandline)”
Linda L. Zern, Following The Strandline

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