Linda B. Myers, Author

Ask Google, and you’re likely to be told something like: A chapbook is a small, concise collection of literary work, often poetry, essays, or short stories. It’s a format used by small presses to showcase emerging talent or focused themes. In the case of Load-Bearing Walls, twenty-three of my poems deal with people, places and events…

Wedge verses under the door.Caulk walls with words.Poetry keeps the spiders outlets salvation in. © Linda B. Myers

So there I was, happily writing novels. I morphed from the Bear series (and other mysteries) into historical fiction, all set in the Pacific Northwest. But there was an itch that wasn’t getting scratched. In this day and age, I recognize that itch as poetry. I couldn’t write about sex until after my mother died.…