ABOUT LINDA W. ROOKS
Linda W. Rooks has a passion to help
heal marriages, a passion that is fueled by the hope she and her
husband found together when their own marriage was restored after a
three-year separation.
Although their marriage
began with a fairy tale romance, including a five-month trek through
Europe, after more than twenty years—and two children—together, Linda
and her husband suffered through a painful three-year separation. From
1995 to 1998 God worked many changes in each of them, which enabled
them to reunite with a fully healed marriage. From Linda’s
writings during that time of apparent hopelessness, came the
inspirational messages of Broken Heart on Hold.
Since that time Linda has shifted much of her energy to bringing hope
and understanding to couples experiencing crisis in their marriage.
Linda’s book, Broken Heart on Hold, Surviving Separation (Cook 2006),
offers hope and encouragement to those in marital crisis by helping
them find emotional and spiritual strength to make it to the other
side. Articles to help couples work through marital difficulties,
including a separation, have appeared in Focus on the Family Magazine,
Light and Life, and The Lookout.
As a freelance writer, Linda W. Rooks has been published in a number of
national and local publications including Chicken Soup for the Beach
Lover’s Soul, Focus on the Family, HomeLife, Light and Life, The
Lookout, Assist News Service, Catholic Forester, Preserving Christian
Homes, The Orlando Sentinel, San Diego Family Magazine, and Center
Stage Magazine. Behind Linda’s gentle fervor is a heart for God, which
resonates clearly through the devotions she writes regularly for
Tapestry, a woman’s devotional magazine published by Walk Thru the
Bible. For eight years Linda served in various editorial positions for
Center Stage Magazine, a Central Florida Arts and Entertainment
publication.
An almost native Californian, Linda received a B.A. in Creative Writing
from San Francisco State University. She met and married her
husband, then a Navy officer, and moved to his home state of Florida to
put him through law school. Linda and her husband Marv now live
in Central Florida and have two married daughters and five young
grandchildren. Her husband Marv is an attorney practicing business and
franchise law and is an adjunct professor at Barry University School of
Law.
Linda is listed in Who’s Who of
American Women, Who’s Who In
America, and Who’s Who in the
World. She has participated in numerous radio and television
interviews, and is on the Steering Committee of Word Weavers, one of Florida’s
largest critique groups. She and her husband are Resource Members
of the Association of Marriage and
Family Ministries (AMFM) and lead a reconciliation support group
at their church. As a couple and as individuals, they have a strong
desire to share the hope they found together with other couples
struggling through painful times in their marriages.
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