Train of Thought: Travel Essays from a One-Track Mind

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One day Linda said to herself, “I should take a cross-country train trip so I can sit on a train for two weeks and write stories about it.”

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One day Linda said to herself, “I should take a cross-country train trip so I can sit on a train for two weeks and write stories about it.” And it seemed like a good idea at the time.

But putting a nervous, introverted writer on a passenger train with little more than a backpack and a laptop means a lot of time to overthink everything. And we do mean everything.

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Author: Linda M. Au
Genres: Humor Essays, Travelogue
Tags: Amtrak, Essays, Humor, Train, Travelogue
Publisher: Vicious Circle Publishing
Publication Year: 2017
ASIN: B075FHLR3N
ISBN: 9781954973053
List Price: $9.99
eBook Price: $3.99

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About the Author

Linda M. Au

Linda M. Au shares her home in western Pennsylvania with three guinea pigs and her eternally patient engineer husband, Wayne Parker. She and Wayne share six grown children between them.

Linda's been a proofreader and typesetter for more than thirty years. With humor collections HEAD IN THE SAND and FORK IN THE ROAD, she climbed over the proverbial publishing desk to save for posterity the ridiculous (yet mundane) stuff that happens around her.

Another humor book, TRAIN OF THOUGHT: TRAVEL ESSAYS FROM A ONE-TRACK MIND, sprang from her bucket-list cross-country train trip in the spring of 2017.

Her real love, though, is writing fiction. THE SCARLET LETTER OPENER, a cozy mystery, was her first published novel, with many more novels in different fictional worlds to follow. Her slightly more serious women's fiction, GRAY AREA, is also available in paperback and Kindle formats. The next two books in this cozy series, The Red Ink Mysteries, will be available in summer 2019 (THE TELL-TALE HEART ATTACK) and autumn 2019 (CHARLOTTE'S WEBSITE).

SECRET AGENT MANNY, a humorous "spy" novel that started with a dare, is also now available.

When she's not writing, Linda is a writing coach for Write At Home, author liaison for the Beaver County BookFest in Pennsylvania, and a board member for the St. Davids Christian Writers' Association.

You can read Linda's stray thoughts at www.lindaau.com, or follow her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn. Or, you know, not. No pressure.

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