Linda King

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Gender Female
Industry Education
Location Essex, United Kingdom
Introduction I'm a writer of mainly short stories to date and have had several short stories published by Woman's Weekly and by Xcite Books. I constantly make excuses for why I can't start my novel, but have decided it's time to bite the bullet! Watch this space!
Interests Writing, reading, baking, theatre, music, walking, comedy, drama
Favorite Movies Cold Mountain, Some Like It Hot, The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, Blame it on Rio, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Dusk til Dawn, Pulp Fiction.
Favorite Music KT Tunstall, The Decemberists, Bowie, Muse, Green Day, Manic Street Preachers.
Favorite Books Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore, all Jilly Cooper books, A Room with a View and A Passage to India by E M Forster, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, and for inspiration to keep going The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I also love reading anything by Rose Tremain and would love to be able to write like her!

You've broken up with your old band and are about to release your first solo album. Please write the liner notes:

To take the peel off an apple in one go, you just start at one end and cut round the apple to end up with a spiral of skin. One of my party tricks!