🧚‍♀️Interview With Linda M. Crate🧚‍♀️

1. Please share your bio, if you have one made.

Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has fifteen published chapbooks, the latest being: not your piñata (Alien Buddha Publishing, June 2025).

2. What made you want to become a writer/artist?

I became a writer because I have always enjoyed words. Even as a child I picked up on the fact that if you gave multiple people the same words they could come up with different stories and I found that fascinating. I also loved being able to connect with protagonists and even sometimes understanding the antagonist even if I didn’t always agree with them.

I liked living in worlds that were different than my experiences on earth. It gave me hope that maybe one day we could build a better world for ourselves and the next generations.

I like drawing and painting, but I’m not as talented at those things so while I dabble in art from time to time my main form of creation is through writing.

I do like taking photographs, too, my college bestie told me I had an artistic eye for photos. I think it’s one of my favorite compliments. It’s stuck with me through the years.

3. What inspires you to keep writing/creating?

Living, honestly. I am always inspired by everything I’ve lived through and experienced. I can find inspiration in conversations between strangers, the weather, shows, music. Anything can serve to fuel my muse, and my muse is relentless. I often say I didn’t find writing, writing found me.

4. Coffee ☕ or tea 🍵? Tea.
I actually cannot stand the taste of coffee. It’s too bitter for me.

5. Are you a cat or dog person?
I like both, but I definitely lean more towards dogs.

6. What type of books do you read for fun?
I usually opt for fantasy or poetry books. Although, I do enjoy reading most anything.

7. What is your favorite story/artist piece you have made?
I have so many stories that I don’t know if that’s fair, but I have a few that I think about often:

A Love Defiant first published in the Anthology Soulmate Syndrome Volume #2

Queen Amalia from Summer of Speculation Villain’s by Cloaked Press

To New Futures published in Prismatica – Issue #6 in 2016

Black Magic first published in Ricky’s Backyard

Child of the Roses first published in the 2017 Edition of Fall Into Fantasy

Millicent’s Revenge first published in the 1st volume of Yarnswoggle

8. Are you a multi-genre or single genre creator?
I’m definitely a multi-genre type of person.

9. What is your favorite place to hang out?
My mother’s house, the library, or on a boat ride but I’m an introvert so I rather be alone or with “my” people.

10. What do you do to relax?
Swim, read, take nature walks

11. Do you have a favorite show?
I don’t watch a lot of television but I always liked Law & Order: SVU, CSI: Miami, and NCIS

12. Do you have a favorite author/artist?
Authors: Anne Rice, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, JRR Tolkien
Artists: Vincent Van Gogh, Kelly McKernan, Joel Tesch

13. What future stories/creations are in the works?
Depends on where my muse takes me. I have so many ideas, I don’t think I have enough time. Lol

14. In true Kelly Lynn Colby fashion, what is your favorite ice cream?
Cookie Dough if we’re talking about cartons of ice cream, soft serve I like twists especially if there’s sprinkles or it’s cherry dipped.

15. Is there anything you believe new authors should know?
It is hard. Don’t give up if this is your dream. Some days there’s more rejections than your heart can fathom, but you gotta keep on going and you have to have a thick skin.

What is one editors “hell no” is another editors “hell yes”. You just have to find the right person for the right piece and that can take time.

16. What do you have planned for the future?
I want to be able to travel more, get some more books out, just keep living and writing, find time to live and not simply exist, and to receive as many dreams as reality as I can make.

17. Where on social media do you want to be found?

My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Linda-M-Crate-129813357119547/,
my instagram is: ,https://www.instagram.com/authorlindamcrate/,
my Bluesky: authorlindamcrate.bsky.social,
& my twitter: https://twitter.com/thysilverdoe?lang=en.