Linda Jay is a writer/editor who is completely in love with words.  A publishing professional, she started her career as an advertising copywriter in the Trade Book Department of Little, Brown Publishers in Boston when JFK was president. She’s written profiles and feature stories for national magazine on topics ranging from artists to multimedia enthusiasts to academics and engineers. 

Nowadays, Linda writes marketing copy, website text, blog posts, and high-tech magazine p.r. In addition, she copyedits book manuscripts in genres ranging from business to vampires and zombies, for authors in the U.S. and in other countries.  She also edits and proofreads magazine articles, website email blasts, and print material of all types.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree! Linda’s parents, Verne and Helen Jay, wrote famous radio murder mysteries like The Shadow and Mr. and Mrs. North during the 1940s in New York. They rehearsed sound effects -- gunshots, bodies falling, eerie vaults -- in the kitchen of their New York apartment, much to the consternation of the neighbors. 

Linda’s father was a continuity writer at WLW-NBC in Cincinnati for ten years in the 1950s.  An unknown writer named Rod Serling (later famous for TV shows Twilight Zone and Night Gallery) joined the writing staff for a brief time; he and Verne Jay wrote a murder mystery that aired on the Philip Morris TV Playhouse, the only time Serling had a co-author.

In 2015, to honor her parents, Linda founded the Petaluma Radio Players – www.petalumaradioplayers.com -- in Petaluma, California, where she currently lives.  The troupe of actors, musicians, Foley sound effects people, and other specialists performs vintage radio shows, mostly mysteries and comedies, to the delight of those who love the fact that radio encourages audience members to use their imaginations.