Outrageous behavior led to 19th Amendment

Today is not simply another Women’s Equality Day. Aug. 26, 2010 marks the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to full citizenship, that is the privilege and responsibility to vote. I looked up the text of the 19th Amendment and found it to be two simple sentences of...

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League of Women Voters talk Monday

Georgia Ann Mullen will discuss her books and how they complement the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment at the League of Women Voters luncheon Monday, Aug. 23, in Wilmington, NC. Her address will take place at 11:30 a.m. at McAlister’s Deli on College Road, across from the UNCW campus. The...

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Church boycott urged for women’s rights

As I wrote in A Shocking & Unnatural Incident, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was no fan of organized religion. She felt all religions held women down. She even took apart the Bible explaining how many passages were demeaning to women and attempted to justify unfair and often brutal treatment of...

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Successful signing at Two Sisters

My first book signing for Wixumlee Is My Salvation was most rewarding on several levels. One, I sold a nice amount of both books. Two, many of the new readers are tourists and took my books to other states. Three, one reader will present A Shocking & Unnatural Incident to her book...

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First proof of Wixumlee cover arrives

The ball begins to roll. I received the first proof of the cover for Wixumlee Is My Salvation yesterday. This cover will be quite a surprise to my readers, since it is very different from A Shocking & Unnatural Incident. And that’s fitting because Wixumlee is a very different book. It...

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Writer’s Block comes to Sedalia

Fellow historical fiction author Blonnie Bunn Wyche and I will participate in the 2nd Saturdays Hands-on Heritage event called Writer’s Block at the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum in Sedalia, NC June 12. Blonnie will be in her 1700s costume (she writes about the Revolutionary War period) and...

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Postpartum depression meets eviction

“There a pecking order in this world, honey, just like in the chicken yard. Today, white man the top rooster. White woman his favorite hen. The slaves, they the chicks scrapping around for crumbs. If slavery outlawed, white man still be king rooster. White woman still get her pick of the corn....

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The ease and difficulty of first person POV

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...

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Losing my religion for equality

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...

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