Welcome to my site!

I write books for all ages, for young children to teenage and adults. I have also written a book on writing - Writing for Children - for both aspiring and newly published authors.

While I spend quite a lot of time visiting libraries, schools and festivals talking about my books and running creative writing workshops, I do manage to find time to write, too!

Latest News:

ABBA Litfest – Online-so it’s not too late to visit!

ON the weekend of 9th and 10th July 2011 a new Literary festival was born the

ABBA LITFEST

This, the first-ever online children’s book festival has been a huge success and the best news of all is that it is still going on at ABBA the AWFULLY BIG BLOG ADVENTURE

Over the weekend there were 40 blog posts a variety of videos, fascinating blogs and competitions, some of which are still running until 20th July, so get on down there and win yourself a book or book-related goodies!

Cathy MacPhail and I got together to produce a video see below, (that was a first for both of us!) chatting about the fabulous week we enjoyed as tutors on an ARVON Foundation writing course Writing for Children .

Linda Strachan and Cathy MacPhail on Arvon Writing Course

Don’t miss
John Dougherty’sfabulous musical tribute to ABBA. So get on down there and be a part of the latest Awfully big blog adventure.

A huge vote of thanks to the hardworking authors who made it such a success, Elen Caldecott, Sam Mills and Lucy Coats.

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Powerful!! A new review of Spider

It’s always great to find someone has reviewed one of my books, especially when the reviewer has really enjoyed it!

A couple of months ago the lovely Maryom (Mary) from Our book reviews online reviewed Spider and described it as ‘… a gripping, readable and rather frightening novel.’ She gave it 5 stars which was wonderful.

So I was not expecting to find another great Review of Spider , by The Mole (AKA Gerry) who decided it was short enough that he could read it before it was due back at their local library in a couple of days, but found himself reading it late into the night and getting up early the next morning to finish it!

There was also a lovely comment by Liz De jager on the site -

‘Linda Strachan is an amazing and very much unsung writer – and I hope reviews like this change it!’

Thank you Liz!

Check out her excellent website, myfavouritebooks for a great review of Dead Boy Talking

Interview on YA Book Reads website

The lovely people at YA Book Reads.com have put up and interview today, why not drop by and have a look!

Interview with Linda Strachan on YA Book Reads blog