Linda Robertson's headstrong and intelligent character, Lady Emmeline "Foxy" Butterschloss, is an inevitable result of her interest in how politics, propaganda, and power are reflected in popular culture. Linda founded the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1996, making it the oldest program at a liberal arts college in the United States devoted to examining the influence of the mass media on society. She has co-hosted a weekly, very popular local public radio program, featuring lively banter and serious analysis of the press and politics. Linda has produced several historical documentaries about the role of abolitionists in upstate New York and a feature-length documentary recounting the collaboration between Harriet Tubman and her biographer, Sarah Bradford: Daughters of the New Republic: Sarah Bradford and Harriet Tubman (2016). The Lusitania Code is Robertson's first venture into fiction, bringing to life the turbulent period after World War I, when British politicians, spies, intelligence officers, and newspaper magnates sought control over the forces shaping the broken post-war world. If it wasn't the first time political cover-ups and "fake news" were used to distort history and influence elections, it was the time when these techniques were polished and refined. Robertson not only brings these forces to light in a dramatic and often amusing narrative, but she also honors the forgotten women who were codebreakers for the British Royal Navy during World War I. Dismissed by history as "typists," these were highly educated women who used the first mechanized decoding machines to help the Admiralty decipher both the German military and diplomatic codes during World War I. Linda is retired and lives in a small village in upstate New York with her amazing Maine Coon cat, Nokia. She relaxes by painting with watercolor, enjoys the company of fellow writers who meet virtually each week, and is the designated straggler in the local hiking club whose members explore the many scenic trails and natural wonders in the vicinity of Ithaca, New York.