Linda Winwood
Linda
Hacon Winwood is a native resident of western Pennsylvania and now resides in North Carolina. Linda attends Berean Baptist church in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
She is married to Jerry and is the mother of 
four
daughters: Amy, Sarah, Anna and Katie. She is also the grandmother of
Jesse, Brooklyn, Jakob, Neela, Tristan and Jackson.
Mrs. Winwood is a Nationally and Internationally Published Children's Author and a motivational speaker on literacy. Linda uses her own personal testimony about over-coming reading disorders to encourage others.
Her first book, "Mommy, Why Don't We Celebrate Halloween?" by Destiny Image Publishers was published in 1994 has sold over 400,000 copies nationally and internationally. It was translated into Italian in 2005 and in Slovakia and Spanish in the fall of 2009.
Linda's second book, "Colored Eggs for Jesse," was initially self-published and released just two weeks before Easter of 1998 and quickly sold more than 900 copies. In the following three years sales exceeded 900 copies per year. In the spring of 2003 the book went national through Destiny Image Publishers.
As a motivational speaker, Linda has traveled as far as Okinawa, Japan. While visiting Japan, Linda spoke to groups of children in the US Department of Defense Public Schools, and Japanese and American Christian Schools.
Linda has also conducted speaking engagements in many schools, churches, senior centers and other organization's sites throughout the states of Alabama, Arizona, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
In addition, Linda has presented at AARP groups, retirement centers and nursing homes, women's' conferences, MOPS, mother-daughter events and Women's' Aglows events. Mrs. Winwood has been a repeat guest on Christian TV Channel 40 shows including: "Getting Together Show", "His Place", and "Exposing the Lies".
Linda was also a guest on:
- "Pittsburgh Talks" hosted by Mark Elfstrands, a Christian radio talk show on "WORD" FM 101.5
- "Teenquest Live" with Mark Witt, WWNL 1080 AM
- "IMPACT LIVE" with Barb Skinner
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