Linda Rushby is a life-time writer, thinker, traveller, poet, blogger, grandmother and indie publisher. Her non-writing career has included working as a computer programmer, academic researcher, web designer, magazine designer and charity administrator.
In 2016, she founded Damson Tree Publishing, an independent publishing company, to publish her own books and offer proof reading, book design and publishing services to other writers
She was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, went to university in Southampton, and after graduating she planned to live on the South Coast of England. However, despite this, she took a job in Bedford, married a local man, and since then she has lived in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, the USA and the Czech Republic. In 2015, after 40 years, she finally fulfilled that early ambition by settling in Southsea, Hampshire – after which she discovered she didn’t want to live anywhere else.
In 2012, following her divorce, she set off to travel solo across Europe for six months, and her memoir of the outward journey to Istanbul, ‘Single to Sirkeci’ was published in 2017. The sequel, ‘The Long Way Back’, is currently in production and its release is planned for 2024. It covers not just the return journey, via Romania, Central Europe and Scandinavia, but also the shock of arriving back in England with few of the issues which had driven her away resolved.