Can you tell I’ve been traveling? The photo on the right was taken on the Ponant ship Le Jaques Cartier. Here we’re on the way from Borneo, where we rode a zodiac boat into the jungle to view orangutans, to the island of Komodo to see its amazing inhabitants!
My name is Linda Cotton Jeffries and I grew up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and for over thirty years, I taught special education in a variety of settings. I retired from teaching in 2016 and since then have gone from writing part time to writing full time. My first novels, We Thought We Knew You and Who We Might Be, were published by Fifth Avenue Press in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The Audrey Markum, Photographer series began with Seeing in the Quiet which was published October 1st, 2021 by Sunbury Press. The sequel, Picturing the Dark was published in March of 2023. We’ve now brought the series to a close with Filling in the Shadows, published in early December, 2025. All three books are available through a number of book sellers. You’ll find links to them within the book section of the website.
