by Linden Gross | Jul 4, 2024 | Writing
“A closed mouth doesn’t get fed,” a teen said at the close of a recent NPR interview about students in Chicago having a voice regarding their school improvements. I’d never heard the saying, but I figured it was a little too pithy for a high school...
by Linden Gross | May 9, 2024 | Publishing
When I first began working with former LAPD cop Fanchon Blake on Busting the Brass Ceiling, she was determined that her memoir had to be traditionally published. She wanted to make sure that her heroic story about challenging the gender inequity that prevented females...
by Linden Gross | May 2, 2024 | Collaborating/Ghostwriting, Ghostwriting, Success Stories, Writing, Writing Life
I’m not good with heights. I definitely didn’t want to climb out of my comfort zone. So, I just said no when all my friends told me that I would have to climb Luna, the 200-foot redwood that Julia “Butterfly” Hill—whose book I had been hired to ghostwrite—was living...
by Linden Gross | Apr 18, 2024 | Writing Coach Services, Writing Life
I just read an as-told-to article about an unexpected tool for change by former convict Richard Loya, who had joined a South Central L.A. gang at age 15 for the protection it offered, and wound up killing a man the following year. Richard was tried as an adult and...
by Linden Gross | Feb 7, 2024 | Collaborating/Ghostwriting
A documentary filmmaker contacted me a few weeks ago. She’s making a film about Julia “Butterfly” Hill and the two-plus years she lived at the top of a redwood in California’s Humboldt County to keep it from being cut down. Since I ghostwrote Julia’s book The Legacy...
