When I sat down to write my first book, A Shocking & Unnatural Incident, I planned to have each protagonist tell her story in the first person via alternating chapters. I didn’t do a very good job and a sympathetic editor offered this excellent advice: Pick one character and stick with her.
I’ve since read [...]

The house where Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Mass., will be dedicated today as a museum, but not without controversy.
While it is widely known—mostly from writings Anthony herself left—that she was against slavery and alcohol consumption as well as a dedicated proponent of women’s rights, some people think other people think Anthony was [...]

The League of Women Voters has always been a shady entity to me, stuck in a category of leagues I’ve heard about but paid little attention to—like the Junior League.
But when Google told me the League of Women Voters turns 90 years old on Valentine’s Day, I read the alert because it highlighted the First [...]

A good writer does not use clichés, but here’s one I can’t do without when it comes to sexual exploitation of children: The more things change, the more they stay the same. And I don’t write that flippantly.
I’m reading a book by Judith Kelleher Schafer titled Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum [...]

Jimmy’s on our side. My friend Azariah sent this article written by former President Jimmy Carter last summer. The first sentence could have been written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who expresses similar sentiments in my first book, A Shocking & Unnatural Incident.
Although I write historical fiction, I didn’t make it up. Throughout her long [...]