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 for their difficult journey. The book is in its 4th printing. Linda’s newest award winning book, Fighting for Your Marriage while Separated, continues to walk the next step toward reconciliaton by offering practical insights, breakthrough strategies, and a deeper understanding of how to fight for your marriage and win. Fighting for Your Marriage while Separated won the Golden Scroll Non-fiction Book of the Year Award in 2019. 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, Chicken Soup Life Lessons from the Cat, Focus on the Family, Today’s Christian Woman, HomeLife, Light and Life, The Lookout, Assist News Service, Catholic Forester, Preserving Christian Homes, The Orlando Sentinel, San Diego Family Magazine, Center Stage Magazine, and several online venues. Behind Linda’s gentle fervor is a heart for God, which resonates clearly through the devotions she wrote for 12 years as a regular contributor to 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.
Linda’s children’s picture book, The Bunny Side of Easter, uses hints of allegory to connect the Easter bunny to the true meaning of Easter.
In Linda’s debut suspense thriller, Pieces of Dark, Pieces of Light, published in 2022 by Elk Lake Publishing, Linda detours from her three earlier books, to dive into a futuristic world of international politics and time travel where adventure and mystery reign, but hope remains king. Endorsed by congressmen, military leaders, authors of suspense and inspiration, and an Emmy nominated writer for Bob Hope, Pieces of Dark, Pieces of Light spans two continents to weave together a captivating international suspense thriller in which family secrets and forgotten dangers from history resurface in the future with a dramatic outbreak of international crisis, family connection, and personal discovery. Hints of romance, broken relationships and more round out the story.
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 grandchildren. Her husband Marv is a 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 was featured in Today’s Christian Woman in March/April 2009 and has participated in numerous radio and television interviews across the North American continent. Linda belongs to Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA), is a member of Christian Authors Network CAN, American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), and is a founding member of Word Weavers International. She and her husband are Resource Members of the Association of Marriage and Family Ministries (AMFM) and lead a marriage reconciliation support ministry in Central Florida. As a couple and as individuals, they have a strong desire to share the hope they found together with couples struggling through painful times in their marriages.
