{"id":10247,"date":"2021-04-19T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindacol3:8890\/?page_id=2526"},"modified":"2023-11-06T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:28:38","slug":"author-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background fusion-parallax-none hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling lazyload\" 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style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;font-size:1em;--fontSize:26;--minFontSize:26;line-height:var(--awb-typography1-line-height);\"><i>Nurse Kit Carson&#8217;s Knife &amp; Gun Club<\/i><\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;\"><div class=\"gmail_default\"><i>Nurse Kit Carson&#8217;s Knife &amp; Gun Club: The first five episodes <\/i>published 2021 by Fiction House, Ltd.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">Copyright 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 by Linda Collison. Published by Fiction House, Ltd.<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-builder-row-inner fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"--awb-flex-grow:0;--awb-flex-grow-medium:0;--awb-flex-grow-small:0;--awb-flex-shrink:0;--awb-flex-shrink-medium:0;--awb-flex-shrink-small:0;width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column_inner fusion-builder-nested-column-2 fusion_builder_column_inner_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\" 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style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\" data-animationType=\"fadeInUp\" data-animationDuration=\"1.0\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-4 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-center fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-margin-top-small:0px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:20px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;--awb-font-size:5em;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-center fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"font-family:var(--awb-custom_typography_2-font-family);font-weight:var(--awb-custom_typography_2-font-weight);font-style:var(--awb-custom_typography_2-font-style);margin:0;letter-spacing:var(--awb-custom_typography_2-letter-spacing);text-transform:var(--awb-custom_typography_2-text-transform);font-size:1em;--fontSize:90;line-height:var(--awb-custom_typography_2-line-height);\">More About Linda Collison<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:center;--awb-font-size:30px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color8);\"><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I write adventure.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\"><strong>Born in Baltimore, Linda Collison moved west as a young woman cobbling together a composite career that has included nursing, parenting, teaching skydiving, freelance writing, volunteer firefighting, and other occupations. Linda and her husband, Bob Russell (they met skydiving) wrote two guidebooks in the 1990s based on their travel adventures. The husband-and-wife team has sailed many blue water miles together, aboard their sloop Topaz, based in Hawaii. Their three-week sailing experience aboard the HM Bark Endeavour, a replica of Captain Cook&#8217;s 18th century ship, inspired Linda to write Star-Crossed, a nautical historical novel published by Knopf. The New York Public Library chose Star-Crossed as one of the Books for the Teen Age &#8212; 2007.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:2%;width:100%;\"><\/div><div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-3 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/about-me\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Meet The Author<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" 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class=\"vcard\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/author\/lindacollison\/\" title=\"Posts by lindacollison\" rel=\"author\">lindacollison<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2023-08-28T09:52:55-07:00<\/span><span>August 16th, 2023<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span>Categories: <a href=\"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><\/p><div class=\"fusion-content-sep sep-none\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><p>Fire Memoir October, 1996 Just before dinner Bob and I were paged to respond to a fire on the slopes of Mauna Kea. Several ranches were threatened, along with a small subdivision, downwind. The winds were raging northeast trades and we knew we'd likely be gone most of the night. Bob threw our gear in the jeep, I filled water bottles, grabbed the first aid kit and we headed for Mana Road, about fifteen miles away. 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class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2023-05-07T12:43:40-07:00<\/span><span>May 7th, 2023<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><span class=\"meta-tags\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/tag\/living\/\" rel=\"tag\">living<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/tag\/poetry\/\" rel=\"tag\">poetry<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/tag\/time\/\" rel=\"tag\">time<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/tag\/verb-forms\/\" rel=\"tag\">verb forms<\/a><\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><\/p><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/time\/\" aria-label=\"More on A question of Time\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-2-post-10002\" class=\"fusion-post-medium-alternate post-10002 post type-post status-publish format-standard 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