LINDA STASI, the popular and well-read columnist for the New York Daily News, and previously for the New York Post, is also an on-camera TV co-host with Mark Simone on NY 1 -Spectrum "What a Week!"
Brash, funny and opinionated, the acerbic Stasi's first novel, The Sixth Station, published in January of 2013 by Forge Books, hit Amazon's top 25 and was hailed as, "A helluva religious thriller," by Nelson DeMille, while Steve Berry said, "You'll be grabbing the pages so tight your knuckles will turn white!" Booklist said of the book, "Dan Brown and Steve Berry fans have another controversial novel in which to lose themselves." For The Sixth Station, Stasi was selected as a finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award.
Stasi's anxiously awaited sequel, Book of Judas, has received acclaim from mega bestselling authors such as Sherrilyn Kenyon, who calls it, "An innovative masterpiece!"
Stasi has appeared on TV talk shows and news channels such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball, Good Day New York, and The View, as well as CNN, Fox News, MSNBC news shows, and many others.
She is a regular guest on iHeartRadio's nationally broadcast Mark Simone Show, Boston's "Matty In The Morning," and countless others around the country.
Stasi has also authored the non-fiction books - Looking Good Is the Best Revenge, A Field Guide to Impossible Men, Simply Beautiful, Boomer Babes, and Scotto Sunday Suppers.
Not afraid to say what's on her mind in her popular Wednesdays and full-page Sunday columns in the New York Daily News, her readership has reached more than 600,000 in a single day.
She was named "One of the Fifty Most Powerful Women in NYC" and has won numerous awards including Best Columnist by the Newswomen's Club of NY, Best Humor Columnist, and Woman of the Year by the Boys Town of Italy for her charitable work such as driving a tractor-trailer in an 18-truck convoy from NYC to the gulf states with relief supplies for Hurricane Katrina victims.