About Linda Bello-Ruiz
WELCOME
In 2010 I was a “woman with a story.” I am now a multiple-award-winning author. The journey began with a passion to tell my story. I joined writer’s groups and enrolled in classes to learn the craft, and paid experts to train me.
My mantra, taken from the book and movie Sarah’s Keys, has been “A story untold is forgotten.”
After From Tears to Triumph, I went on to write, Love Thy Neighbor and Lost at Sea, both based on true events. Most recently I completed book #4: BETRAYED, which is also based on a true story.
The writing journey is exciting and exhilarating—it’s addictive.
You, too, can tell your story. If you need direction, contact me.
BIOGRAPHY
Linda Caridad Cassells (Bello-Ruiz) co-founded and directed the House of Hope—the first safe-haven for street girls, runaways, and underage prostitutes in Costa Rica. She was a twenty-three-years-old college dropout when she took on the project and relied on her faith and determination which was much bigger than her curriculum vitae. After her return to the United States in 1976, she went back to college and earned her Master’s Degree in Psychology from Sonoma State University. Linda worked as a bilingual vocational rehabilitation counselor in Santa Rosa, California, for twenty-six years, and as a vocational expert on disability for five of those years.
She maintains a friendship with many of her former clients as well as with girls (now women) from The House of Hope.
The mother of four grown children, she divides her time between Santa Rosa, California, and Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico, where she practices her mantra, “Lord, where can I be of service today?”
Linda is the founder of The Faith Writers in Lincoln, CA, the Country Writers in Santa Rosa, leads a writer’s critique group, and belongs to the Redwood Writers in Sonoma County.
Ms. Bello-Ruiz speaks to clubs and organizations on her experiences in moving beyond despair into hope and on choices and consequences.