Twisted Fate

Linda Boroff graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English. She was nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction in 2016 and 2021. Her coming-of-age story, published in Cornell University's literary magazine, Epoch, is currently under option to Sony and director Brad Furman.

Linda collaborated with producer Don Murphy (Transformers, Natural Born Killers) in writing the biopic Fast Fade about tragic film noir actress Barbara Payton.

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Linda Boroff graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English. She was nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction in 2016 and 2021. Her coming-of-age story, published in Cornell University's literary magazine, Epoch, is currently under option to Sony and director Brad Furman.

Linda collaborated with producer Don Murphy (Transformers, Natural Born Killers) in writing the biopic Fast Fade about tragic film noir actress Barbara Payton.

Linda is curently developing a miniseries called Duty to Warn with Ellen Brown Furman (The Infiltrator with Bryan Cranston) on the 1969 stalking murder of Berkeley student Tanya Tarasoff, which resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on doctor-patient confidentiality.

Linda wrote the produced feature thriller Murder in Fashion, about Andrew Cunanan’s killing spree ending with the assassination of Gianni Versace. It played in theatres and festivals and was reviewed in the NY Times.

L.A. Times review: "“Murder in Fashion, written by Linda Boroff and directed by Ben Waller, is a straightforward, well-paced, resourcefully made account of handsome but crazed Andrew Cunanan’s 1997 serial killing spree that culminated with his fatal shooting of Gianni Versace in Miami Beach. “Low budget but accurate and well constructed insight into a modern mystery” — RichardvonLust

Linda’s medical thriller novel, Twisted Fate, about a "Mad Cow" epidemic in the US was published in 2022. Her Young Adult novel, The Dressmaker’s Daughter, set in WWII Romania, was also published in 2022. Her supernatural suspense novella, The Remnant, came out in hardcover in 2024.

Amazon Page: https://www.amazon.com/Linda-Boroff/e/B00NWE6J3I

Linda’s published short stories and creative nonfiction: https://lindaboroffauthor.com/the-writing-life/

Partial List of Writing Awards: Semifinalist: Park City Table Read My Screenplay competition 2024 Semifinalist: Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Competition Semifinalist: Creative World Awards COVERFLY SCREENPLAY RANKING: Top 11% Second Place: American Gem competition First prize: The Writers Place Competition Finalist: Eric Hoffer fiction competition (anthologized in Best New Writing 2011) Anthologized in Modern Shorts: Fiction Attic Press Top Ten Finalist: Bruce Geller Memorial Screenplay Competition

Testimonials and Reviews

Winner: Fellowship to St. Petersburg (Russia) literary seminar: "Thank you for participating in the SLS/St. Petersburg annual literary contest. We were impressed by the strength and quality of your work and would like to offer you a fellowship for the program tuition. We genuinely enjoyed your quietly powerful story at once direct and complex; beautifully achieved and thoroughly satisfying. It was one of my personal favorites." All Best, mikhail iossel sls executive director SUMMER LITERARY SEMINARS

The Conium Review acceptance for novella A Season of Turbulence "Boroff's rhythmic language echoes the hard-boiled spirit of Chandler or Hammett. Overall, it's a strong story with brilliant dialogue, and an intimate knowledge of the attitudes and environs of Alaska. I highly recommend publication…this is one which I'd love to read in Conium."

Review of novella, A Season of Turbulence “Author Linda Boroff expertly braids well-developed plot, vivid setting, and exceptional lyricism by using utterly raw prose to echo the raw landscape.”—— Emily Wick writing in Prick of the Spindle

Acceptance: Fleas on the Dog Magazine (humor, satire) From “PRUFROCK, J. Alfred, Intake Records” By Linda Boroff

We can’t praise Boroff’s comedic talent enough and of course we don’t even have to comment on her prose that’s just sooooo out of this world good and on its way to Pluto. Five stars.

Anyone who’s ever swooned over Eliot’s iconic poetry game-changer is guaranteed to get a kilo-volt charge out of this insanely funny, scrupulously intelligent surgically incisive satire. But beneath the sophisticated humour is a not so gentle poke that lampoons the festering elitism surrounding literary (or any) masterpieces and the highbrow tight ass mindset that smokes it. Who’s to say that the shrink filing this report isn’t every bit as intelligent as ole T. S. himself? What one sees in a work of art and takes away from it depends on the lens through which it is viewed.

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