My Bio

Linda LaRoche is a writer of various genres. Her background encompasses screenwriting, journalism, public relations, copywriting, novels, and short stories.  She is a writer guided by a simple philosophy that each genre feeds the other and that writing is writing.

 

While working at CBS, Television City, she raised funds from grants to independently produce The Trouble with Tonia, a film with a Latin theme shown internationally, in which she won the Producer award at the Houston Film Festival in Houston, Texas.  It also won the best film award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in San Sebastian, Spain, and is listed as one of the top 100 Hispanic-American films by Chon A Noriega.

 

She went to live in Berlin, Germany and plunged into acting, landing in commercials, and indie films while she traveled extensively. 

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In New York, she combined her creative and technical skills as a multimedia producer.

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Returning to California, she wrote At the Drop of a Hat, a screenplay which she intended to enter into the Nicholl Foundation.  It garnered attention and paved the way for a sale to a Production company. Becoming a freelance Journalist, she published over 600 bylines.  Her work appeared in periodicals such as The Los Angeles Times, Better Homes and Gardens,  California Apparel News, In Style magazine, the Pasadena Star-News, and the Los Angeles Weekly.   

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Her fictional short stories have been published in over a dozen literary magazines.

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In Las Vegas, she taught creative writing at the College of Southern Nevada.  She mentored budding writers and was particularly good at helping others nurture their creative ideas from the abstract into polished execution.  It was then she authored How To Write Short Stories to be Proud Of, a handbook written specifically for her students, published on Amazon Kindle.

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In 2017, she wrote Dust unto Shadow a dark family saga that takes place in Mexico, and was lauded by the Press as having sold more books at a public library than most authors sell in a traditional bookstore.

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In 2019, she wrote Echoes Amongst Us, a young woman’s search for her life purpose while she globe-trots with tones of spiritual, creative, and romantic impulses. 

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In 2022, she launched Old World Glory,  a quasi-fictional biographical story examining the life and legacy of Oliver Marquez, a composite character based on a Mexican-born man with tremendous ambition. 

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Currently, she has transitioned into a second career where she combines her creative vision and the ability to bring stories to life in a captivating way..