Linda Astwood: Beginnings and literary projects

In “Letters to Valentina” (2015), writer and lawyer Linda Astwood included some fragments of things she had written during a certain period of her life as epistles between two people who were far away.

For Astwood, there was quite a big gap between the desire to write and the reality, but he always cultivated this habit, he comes from a family of readers and from an early age he had an affinity for books and writing, between the ages of 10 and 11 he started writing in a notebook imitating her sister, who had already done it.

commented Panama America that he had several notebooks and while his own first post She was already married with children, and she just included part of their content in her novel.

Colombian writer, who has been living in Panama since 2008, He published seven worksfive novels and two collections of poems, this genre has a special connection, since poetry was the first thing he learned to read, so he always wrote poetry or poetic prose.

Besides that “Letters to Valentine”authorship of Astwood (@lindastwood) publications “Your Name”, “Never, Never Let Me Go”, “Flowers of the Lake”, “She is the Wind” and the poems “Poetry for 30 Days” and “Nude Prose”.

Astwood (40) is a lawyer by profession, does not work in the country, but developed in the field of real estate, goods and roots, and marketing. In addition, as a writer, she runs two projects, both aimed at supporting new writers.

WITH “Storytelling Ando”the writer’s initiative, which started in 2019, helps in novice writers publish your work through workshops and tutorials, and offers other services related to the publishing process, such as proofreading and cover design.

Another project he is working on is Independent Writers of Panama (Einpa), where she holds the position of president from 2020. He explained that there are currently over 90 self-published writers (unaffiliated with a publisher) subscribed from a variety of genres, and the community’s mission is promotion of author’s works through fairs or events organized by public or private entities.

Regarding future projectsthe writer is working on new publications, one under the umbrella of “Narrando Ando”, there will be book type manual with experiences of working with different authors, techniques and tools for publishing their works, intended especially for beginning writers or those who want to become writers.

Astwood intends to publish this work this year. In addition, he is working on two other works, without a publication date, once novel and a book of stories and poetry.

He emphasized that the novel is set in an ancient city. “It will have historical aspects, but also related to faith and religionAstwood said.