Linda K. Sienkiewicz

Linda K. Sienkiewicz is the author of an award-winning novel, five poetry chapbooks, and a children’s picture book. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She serves as Honorary Director of Detroit Working Writers and volunteers with Neighborhood House, a community nonprofit. Love and Other Incurable Ailments is her second novel. Her work explores themes of identity, anxiety, and resilience. She hopes readers see her second book as one that’s worth reading, even if it’s not everyone’s Neuhaus. To learn more, visit LindaKSienkiewicz.com.

What Three-Star Reviews Really Mean for Authors

Image: against a backdrop that's pink on one half and blue on the other half, five injection-molded rubber stars are lined up in a row: three of the stars are yellow, and the remaining two are gray.

Readers who give three stars are often responding to the intersection between their expectations and the book—not the book’s inherent ...

April 8, 2026 / Creativity & Writing Life, Free, Guest Post