Linda Browne
ALLi Author Member
Location: Canada
Genres: LGBTQ+, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, New Adult, Young Adult (YA), Historical Fiction, Adventure
Linda Browne is an LGBTQ+ author of (mostly) MG and YA SFF. Her work has been longlisted in The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition, and she’s also been a finalist in CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition. Her debut middle grade steampunk novel, Shadow Apprentice, was a finalist in the 2024 Wishing Shelf Book Awards. "The Murakami Method: Rewriting Long Covid," an essay that detailed the struggles of trying to write while recovering from long Covid, was published in the anthology, Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity-Obsessed World (Brindle and Glass, 2024). Bad Artist was named one of the CBC's best must-read Canadian non-fiction books for fall, 2024. Linda lives in Toronto with her partner, and far too many books and plants.
Linda Browne's books
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (YA)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15
As an illegal wizard at St. Anselm’s Training School for Orphans, Colin lives in constant fear of the Magistrates—the relentless wizard hunters scouring Garrison Creek for people like him. He needs a place to hide, and fast. The school’s elite magi-tech squad offers the perfect camouflage. But the competition is fierce and Colin’s magi-tech skills are … not great. Worse, he can’t always control his wizardry, and it leaves behind a telltale red residue that acts as a beacon for the authorities. With his arch rival, Viola Grundy, also vying for a spot on the squad, time is running out. When a heated battle with Viola forces Colin to unleash his explosive wizard powers, the Magistrates come to inspect both students for signs of wizardry. Trapped between a rival who knows too much and the hunters who suspect him, Colin must rely on his wits alone to outsmart them all—or...
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Young Adult (YA)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15
Finalist, The Wishing Shelf Book Awards, 2024. Thirteen-year old Ermin is a gifted mechanic and the worst student at St. Anselm's Training School for Orphans. She’s just failed her exams for the third time—something nobody's ever done. Worse, Ermin’s been running her own repair business for money—something that’s expressly forbidden. If the headmistress finds out, Ermin will go to prison. Her future will be over before it’s even begun. But that’s not her only secret. Her best friends, Colin and Georgie, are wizards in a world where magic is strictly controlled. Ermin worries that her friends will be captured, drained of their power, then banished. When Georgie’s caught aiding the Wizard’s Resistance, Ermin repairs a broken flying carpet so all three of them can escape. Hesitant to join the Resistance because of her lack of magical power, Ermin steals an experimental device from a wizard hunter that could destroy every...