About Linda Maye Adams

I’m Linda Maye Adams, and I write across three genres: urban fantasy, space opera, and superhero fiction. I’m based in Arlington, Virginia. Part of the DMV, as locals call the DC-Maryland-Virginia region. That particular patch of geography, with its historic brick sidewalks and bureaucratic politics and rivers that run between state lines, shows up in my work whether I plan it or not. My Beckett Cain series is set directly in the DMV, where a mage private investigator named Beckett navigates magical politics layered on top of ordinary DC-area life. My GALCOM series takes the same instinct for grounded character work into deep space. My Dice Ford series brings it into superhero territory. Three genres, one voice.

I build fiction from place. The real DMV is my foundation for Beckett Cain— including the flavor of bureaucracy that anyone who has dealt with DC-area institutions will immediately recognize. Across all three series, I write character-first: the plot happens because of who these people are, not in spite of it. I’m drawn to wry observation over grimdark intensity, to stories where something genuinely funny can happen inside a genuinely high-stakes situation.

I also write short fiction across all three genres as a creative practice that keeps my skills sharp. If any of that sounds like your kind of reading, you’re in the right place.

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Linda Maye Adams is an urban fantasy, space opera, and superhero fiction author based in Arlington, Virginia. She writes the Beckett Cain urban fantasy series (featuring a DMV mage-PI, the Dominion Convocation, and a Three-Anchor magic system set across DC, Maryland, and Virginia), the GALCOM space opera series, and the Dice Ford superhero fiction series, and publishes short speculative fiction across all three genres.