She’s doing good things
A FORMER NUJ Mother of Chapel is well into a career as novelist, with a second likely best-seller out this month.
Linda Green’s first, I Did a Bad Thing, was set in a local paper in Birmingham. It sold 75,000 copies and spent 11 weeks in the best-seller charts.
Now comes 10 Reasons Not to Fall in Love, which follows Jo, a single mum, as she returns to work as a TV news reporter in Manchester.
Linda Green was a reporter and Mother of the NUJ chapels at the Birmingham MetroNews and the Coventry Evening Telegraph in the 1990s before turning freelance.
She says: “I know lots of my former colleagues are going through a tough time right now with all the cutbacks and redundancies. Having taken a few pot-shots at regional newspaper managers last time, I felt it was time to take a look at the TV executives who seem intent on centralising and dumbing down local TV news.”
10 Reasons Not to Fall in Love is published by Headline Review. Go to linda-green.com