Linda Mickey

For Kyle Shannon mystery #5, Linda Mickey sends Kyle to school - to work that is. Assigned to School District 1926, Kyle discovers that some people are rotten to the Common Core. To write Test Scores, Mickey drew on her own experience and interviewed a number of teachers and school board members.

How did it all start? Linda Mickey got so mad at her boss she killed him – on paper. That’s how she went from mystery reader and fan to author.

Like her protagonist Kyle Shannon, Linda Mickey was employed by a staffing agency. After a career in which she saw everything from knife-toting secretaries to drunken vice presidents, Mickey had plenty of motive to write a mystery series featuring a temporary office worker. The Kyle Shannon mysteries were born.

As a speaker and workshop facilitator, Linda Mickey is frequently asked how to manage a writing business. Questions about publishing industry-related topics came up so often that she decided to compile what she knew about business and what she had learned about the publishing industry into Dollars and Sense for Writers.