Category Archives: Historical Fiction

Guts and Sovereignty

Guts and Sovereignty

“The best protection any woman can have … is courage.” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton

How often do we try to imagine ourselves in a situation where others were challenged by the fluctuations of life and somehow stood up to them? We ask, could I possibly have been as courageous as they were? Would I have fought as they did to get through each day with my values intact?

This is why most of us who write get such a thrill from it, but my latest historical novel has taken a new twist I wasn’t prepared for. It has two protagonists living one hundred years apart, with one finding she’s become so identified with the other that she starts living in the earlier era in her imagination and fears she’ll be trapped there forever. Continue Reading

Burdens of Privilege

Burdens of Privilege

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” —Plutarch It was over a decade ago that I sat in my first writers’ workshop at the Stonybrook Writers’ Conference. The almost round tables were configured to promote emotional connectivity and support, all good things when one’s writing is being… Continue Reading