Linda Maye Adams: 45 books

For writers who don’t outline—called pantsers—it’s hard finding anything on how to write that doesn’t involve outlining.Author Linda Maye Adams, a pantser writer, cuts through some of the myths and may save you wasted time looking for solutions.In this guide, Linda Maye Adams...

Desert Storm war veteran Linda Maye Adams shows the diversity of what war is like for the women who deploy in this collection of short stories and poetry. The stories run from "First Night," and "Between Black and White," because war seldom ends when the war does. The poems include "A Woman Goes to...

Stranded by war, fire mage Neyan waits for the devil winds to complete one last desperate mission: kill the enemy Then Captain Jabell rides into town. Different from the others, he makes Neyan see the man, not the enemy. For the first time, she questions her mission. But she must break...

Five of Linda Maye Adams’ fantasy stories. The collection includes Writers of the Future honorable mention “A Quartet of Clowns,” the action story “River Flight,” the flash fiction “Healer’s Tent,” the action story “Booby-Trap at Beaver River,” and reader favorite “Words of Rain and Shadows.”

On September 11, 2001, the world changed forever when four planes crashed, including one that struck the Pentagon in Washington, DC.Linda Maye Adams describes the events of the day in Washington DC from a Desert Storm veteran’s perspective. This story moves chronologically through what happened...

Private First Class Anita Johnson's greatest fear is dying,   After a gas alarm is called, she hides in a bunker, listening to the unknown and waiting for IT to happen.  Normalcy may be her only sanity. A flash fiction military story by Linda Maye Adams.

Former soldier and Desert Storm veteran Linda Maye Adams walks step-by-step to help the civilian fiction writer understand how military culture works. From enlistment to war, this book takes you on a tour of what it’s like to be a soldier. Do soldiers curse non-stop? Do they always yell, “Yes,...

Sometimes ghosts can be too helpful.  But Private Investigator Tibby Clarke just wants respect from her grandfather ghost.  A routine case takes Tibby into the Washington DC suburbs…a strange place for a ghost partner with nineteenth century sensibilities. But when the case turns...

On August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Within twenty-four hours, he controlled the entire country. Five days later, the United States was deploying soldiers and had named the military operation Desert Shield.This would be the largest deployment of women at the time. Over 40,000 women...

Stone mage Margaret Day thought the faces of the automatons gave her nightmares. But what the Know-Nothings did to the construction of the Washington Monument makes the nightmares seem tame. A haunted stone, deep within the monument, tainted with evil.  Can she fight the evil? A page-turning story of dark secrets.

Nothing like having Granny on stakeout. Sidelined by a broken foot, private investigator Erin King must go on surveillance.  Her body-building granny plays chauffeur. Add a thorny case of fraud and an impatient insurance company.  And the bill collectors. With time running out,...

Superheroing is not easy, not for women and especially not for Map Girl's peculiar skills of making maps of lives that relegates her to telling fortunes in a carnival. But then Blue Flare shows, and he needs a favor ... a big one. It'll test Map Girl's skills, and maybe, it'll help her change direction, too.

Sometimes returning home brings back good memories, or bad ones.  For Shari Kendell, it's finding answers to the questions her grandmother's death left. Actors always live in their own world, but Shari is surprised and what she didn't know.  Who was blackmailing her grandmother, and why?

Voices ride the fog, in from the sea. Real? Or magic? Meredith tries to find answers. Her grandfather dead, walked into the sea. Did the voices call to him? What do they want? Now they call to Meredith. Haunted by the loss, Meredith takes a journey of discovery in this heartwarming tale.