YouTube Channel Content

Written by lindasummersea on December 14th, 2025February 25th, 2026. Leave a comment

My newest 2-minute videos are on my YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@LindaSummersea

They include a Book Trailer, Interview with publicist Danette Kubana, and a 2-minute mini-movie (image shown at left) about Summersea’s experience with Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

View buying options for The Girl with the Black and Blue Doll here.

🎞️ 🎙️ ATTENTION: Are you a podcast or radio host or book club host?

We’d love to appear on your media to talk about teen depression, BDD, and/or its relationship to the pressures created by social media.

OR, The Girl with the Black and Blue Doll or other topic. The Girl is about a girl who becomes depressed at an early age, but it’s by no means a downer of a read. You’re cheer for the girl’s successes as she comes of age. And…It’s all told in the voice of the girl!

The Girl with the Black and Blue Doll is Available Here

Written by lindasummersea on October 6th, 2025February 20th, 2026. Leave a comment

The Girl with the Black and Blue Doll is available today as an eBook and/or Paperback here at BookBaby’s online store. Read the FIRST FIVE CHAPTERS in the Free Preview below when you click on BUY ON AMAZON. Amazon has the eBook and Paperback.

9/11 Remembered

Written by lindasummersea on September 11th, 2025September 11th, 2025. Leave a comment

Today America remembers the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on their 24-year anniversary. Like many events that are remembered for their horror, I think most of us remember where we were when we heard about the fall of the towers. The first al-Qaeda suicide mission under Osama bin-Laden hit the North Tower of the World […]

What Does the 4th of July Really Mean?

Written by lindasummersea on July 4th, 2025July 4th, 2025. Leave a comment

A Safe and Happy 4th of July to you. This morning, I put on my freedom t-shirt, wearing its American flag with a different feeling this year. I can’t help but feel sad for all of the chaos and trauma in the United States and certainly, around the world. Our country is experiencing a dangerous […]

May You Live in Interesting Times

Written by lindasummersea on January 31st, 2025February 2nd, 2025. 1 Comment

This morning, as I was heading out for a brisk walk before the rains came, I found myself thinking of all the turmoil I’ve survived while treading water in the rough seas of my life during the past two years. There’s a curse, long attributed as a Chinese curse and now debunked as simply a […]

My Kindergarten Best Friend

Written by lindasummersea on August 29th, 2024February 2nd, 2025. Leave a comment

My Kindergarten best friend was also my very first friend. We were so similarly timid that we didn’t mind that our conversations were brief bits that hinted at our equally isolated upbringing. Our zen-like circuit of a cobblestone walk was our practice place for future socializing. Visit Substack to read about my first rewarding peer […]

My Humble Thoughts on Student Protests at Columbia University

Written by lindasummersea on May 20th, 2024February 2nd, 2025. Leave a comment

Have we forgotten Kent State? Visit Substack to read my post on the subject.

Today is National Caregivers Day

Written by lindasummersea on February 16th, 2024. Leave a comment

Visit Substack to read my post on the subject.

A Grown Ass Woman

Written by lindasummersea on February 4th, 2024February 2nd, 2025. Leave a comment

https://lindasummersea.substack.com/p/a-grown-ass-woman

Buckets of Bats

Written by lindasummersea on January 22nd, 2024February 4th, 2024. Leave a comment

(Edit: Trigger Warning. I apologize for not labeling this post as including Animal Death.) Growing up in an 1850’s farmhouse in Massachusetts ignited my imagination like no place since. In the cellar, where I was sent to pull carrots from the sandbox in winter, I fantasized about the farmhouse being part of the Underground Railroad. […]

LINDA SUMMERSEA

Author, The Girl with the Black and Blue Doll