Linda M James is a published author of six books, short stories, poems and a commissioned/optioned screenwriter. She is also a creative writing tutor. She was brought in Swansea, South Wales within singing sight of the sea. Since leaving Wales, she has lived in many places, including Malta, North Germany and Vienna. She now lives in the beautiful city of Canterbury. She is thrilled to have won 2nd prize in the 2020 Welsh International Poetry Competition in July, 2020.In 2022 she has two more historical linked novels being published. They are set in Vienna, Switzerland, Berlin, Brooklyn, New York, London and Eire [ Ireland] before and after WW 2. They are titled: "The Vienna Connection" and its sequel "Echoes of Silence."