Year of Wonders
The reluctant hero. It's a tale as old as time and one of my favorites, although I prefer to frame it as a hero of circumstance. This...
Well, I'm back.
Hi. Again. You know how sometimes you start a blog because your freelance career, and your full-time painting job, and you volunteer...
Wow. Just wow.
This book is a powerhouse. I think it knocked the wind out of me a half dozen times. A black woman named Dana lives in 1976 California...
The Ageism/Sexism Combo
There’s undeniably a cultural stigma of ageism which compounds on the hinderance of women’s stories being told with as much honesty and...
An independent woman in the Italian Renaissance?!?!? Oh my.
I recently took a trip to Italy. (Don't worry, I'll include a small photo gallery below.) In the spirit of that vacation, I embarked on...
Z: the "it could be true" story of Zelda Fitzgerald
There are all sorts of ways to write historical fiction (and, really, I love them all). But perhaps the one that is most rare, difficult...
A Quiet Feminism
There's an entire generation of women who are pretty consistently attacked by the feminist movement for having been "content" to "just"...
My weakness for Christmas-themed Mystery Novels
Who doesn't love a good mystery novel, and especially one that is Christmas themed? No, seriously, who is that person? Mysteries are...
A Top Ten List for 2015
To kick off this new year and new blog, I thought I'd take a minute to look back on some of the better female characters I read...
