Best-selling Author
 

Best-selling author Linda Rohrbough  

has three national awards from the Computer Press Association for her writing about the computer industry. Her most recent book, Making Money in Cyberspace (Tarcher/Putnam) was awarded Best General Computer Book of the Year for 1998. Linda’s specialty is making technical subjects more personal by including stories, or case studies, of ordinary people solving real-world problems. Learn more about Linda's PC Bios articles here. 

 

Linda Rohrbough
Visit Linda's The Business of Writing Column where you can download her articles. These columns have appeared in the Pikes Peak Writer News Magazine. The Pikes Peak Writers are a top notch group and put on a nationally recognized annual conference. (For more information visit the Pikes Peak Writers website.) 

Linda’s latest book, co-authored with her surgeon Robert Sewell M.D., is Weight Loss Surgery with the Adjustable Gastric Band (Da Capo Lifelong Books, March 2008). The book includes case studies of band patients, psychologists, dietitians and exercise therapists. It includes Linda’s story of how she safely lost over 136 pounds and 12 dress sizes in two years without any removal or rearrangement of her digestive system. Check the Books page for more information and before and after photos of Linda.

Linda's first book, Mailing List Services On Your Home-Based PC (McGraw-Hill) won Best General Book of the Year in 1994. Two years earlier in 1992, she was honored with the “Best On-Line Publication” award for her work with Newsbytes News Network, an international, high-tech news service later purchased and ran by the Washington Post.

 
She is also author of Start Your Own Computer Repair Business (McGraw-Hill) and Upgrade Your Own PC, 2nd Edition (Wiley, formerly IDG Books). Upgrade Your Own PC made book distributor Ingram-Micro’s top 10 list for computer books. Linda’s books enjoy translation into more than a dozen languages including: Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Russian. 


Linda has served on the faculty of Learning Tree University and Collin County Community College. She's acted as a consultant to a number of businesses and non-profit organizations including: the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the Veteran's Administration and the Association of Government Accountants.

On the subject of computers, Linda has been quoted by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, SmartMoney Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, CNN, Money Magazine, Home Office Computing, Home PC, and the book MORE Windows 95 for Dummies. She's written thousands of articles for mainstream and computer publications such as The London Guardian, PC Computing, Word Perfect Magazine, Federal Computer Week and Canadian Computer Currents. 
Taking her story-telling into the realm of fiction, Linda has completed her first suspense novel and is at work on a second.

Born a second-generation Colorado native, Linda currently lives outside Raleigh , North Carolina .