Linda W. Rooks is the award winning author of Fighting for Your Marriage while Separated (March 2019, New Growth Press), winner of the Golden Scroll Non-fiction book of the Year Award for 2019.

Her debut novel, released in August 2022, is Pieces of Dark, Pieces of Light, a futuristic international thriller that spans two continents to weave together a captivating international suspense thriller in which family secrets and forgotten dangers from history resurface in the future.

Linda is also the author of Broken Heart on Hold, Surviving Separation, (June 2006, David C. Cook) and The Bunny Side of Easter (2015 Papa’s Press), a children’s picture book that tells an exciting adventure about the heroism of a little bunny that made him the Easter bunny and the rabbit on the moon.

Like the title of her book, Fighting for Your Marriage while Separated, Linda knows what it's like to fight for your marriage. She and her husband were separated for three years in the nineties. Today, not only is their marriage thriving, but together they lead a crisis marriage class in Central Florida.

Her stories and articles have appeared in a number of national publications including multiple Chicken Soup for the Soul books, Focus on the Family, Today’s Christian Woman, HomeLife, Light and Life, The Lookout Catholic Forester, Preserving Christian Homes, The Orlando Sentinel, San Diego Family Magazine, and several online venues. For 12 years she was a regular contributor to Tapestry, a Walk Thru the Bible devotional magazine for women, and for eight years Linda served in various editorial positions for Center Stage Magazine, a Central Florida Arts and Entertainment publication. She is a contributing author to Love is a Verb by Gary Chapman and Bethany House’s Angels, Miracles, and Heavenly Encounters.

Linda is listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World. She has participated in numerous radio and television interviews across the North American continent, is a member of Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA), Christian Author’s Network (CAN), American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), and is a founding member of Word Weavers, the premier international Christian writers critique group. She and her husband are Resource Members on the Troubled Marriages Team of the Association of Marriage and Family Ministries (AMFM)

Linda received a B.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She and her husband Marv now live in Central Florida, have two married daughters, and five grandchildren. Her husband Marv is a professor at Barry University School of Law.

Linda’s TV and radio interviews that describe more about Linda’s books and life can be found at her website.