My Bio

Linda LaRoche is a writer of various genres. Her background encompasses screenwriting, journalism, public relations, 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, for 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 relocated to Berlin, Germany, immersing herself in the dramatic arts and narrative performance. While traveling extensively throughout Europe, she performed in international commercials and independent films—an adventure that fueled her global sensibilities and allowed her to see the world with fresh eyes, providing the definitive creative spark she needed to expand her literary work.

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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, while living in San Francisco, she wrote At the Drop of a Hat, a screenplay which garnered significant attention from the Academy’s Nicholl Fellowship and successfully paved the way for an option and sale to a production company.

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Becoming a freelance journalist, she published over 600 bylines. Her work appeared in prominent and regional periodicals including The Los Angeles Times, Better Homes and Gardens, California Apparel News, In Style magazine, the Pasadena Star-News, and the LA Weekly.

 

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

 

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

 

In 2017, she wrote Dust unto Shadow, a dark family saga set in Mexico that was lauded by the press for its exceptional public library distribution success, outpacing traditional bookstore sales trajectories.

 

In 2019, she wrote Echoes Amongst Us, a compelling novel charting a young woman’s search for her life purpose as she globe-trots through spiritual, creative, and romantic impulses.

 

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

 

She has since transitioned to her primary creative calling: acting. In this domain, she masterfully combines a love of storytelling, emotional intelligence, and creative vision to bring complex characters and narratives to life in a profoundly captivating way.