When you write a historical novel, you always get something wrong. And sooner or later, a reader tells you about it. My first novel, A FALSE DAWN, required more research than I initially realized, and I found that I loved learning all these new facts. But every once in...

I’ve always worried about Louise, my main character in A FALSE DAWN. That readers would not accept her in a story set in the 1740s because Louis was too modern. Her concerns, about how to get some respect from the men in her life, seemed so contemporary, I worried,...

I’m working on SUNRISING, the sequel to my first novel, and I’m loving it. I’m getting lots of feedback from friends whose editorial opinions I value, and it’s making the new book so much more enjoyable to write than the first book. You have to love the process when...

A lot of my friends who are speakers and lecturers are experiencing the same problem I am: in the social media age, when you can get practically everything you want at home, on your time, as soon as you want it, how do you get people to come out...

In my sequel to A FALSE DAWN, Louise, my main character, has to deal with getting rifles for her family and friends, so they can protect themselves in the wilderness of 1740s America, where there was no law or police to protect people. Some folks think that America is...

Yes, it’s 100 years since American women won the right to vote. And Philadelphia, my home town, will be hosting special events all year. (Look up Vision 2020 for more details.) And for the first time, more American women are in the workforce than men, an event just announced...

Those of you who enjoyed my first novel, A FALSE DAWN, should know that the sequel and concluding volume, SUNRISING, will be published within the next twelve months! That’s the plan. I am so enjoying all the work I’m doing now to polish this sequel. For all the pleasure...

One hundred years after passage of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, Philadelphia will host a series of events called Vision2020. Events will include the following 0 an interactive exhibit on women at center city’s Kimmel Center, starting in March 2020; 0 a spring assembly of...

If you’ve seen the movie HARRIET, you’ll know what an amazing woman Harriet Tubman was. I didn’t realize that, among her many accomplishments, she was one of the few women in U.S. history to lead soldiers into battle, which she did during the Civil War. Individual women and men...

Seems obvious, doesn’t it, that people want to learn, particularly adults who remember history from school as being terribly dull and filled with useless names and dates? But people are enjoying FRONTIER FEMINISTS, my lecture on Colonial-era women, because I’m telling stories about real women – slaves, French-Americans and...