LyleNov 3, 20201 minVote!Please vote, if you haven't done so yet. The suffragists in my book Summer Suffragists worked for women's right to vote for many years. J...
LyleOct 28, 20201 minBookstoreJust a quick shout-out for Buttonwood Books in Cohasset, which is carrying my book. They have a great selection, including a section for ...
LyleSep 17, 20201 minShips and shipyardsIt's been really busy getting out the word about my new book, Summer Suffragists, checking out possible book awards, and arranging for a ...
LyleAug 22, 20201 minIt Happened in a Zoom ChatIt took me a while to realize the significance, but the first person I learned that bought my book is a great great granddaughter of Sylv...
LyleAug 22, 20201 minPublished!The book is out, as you probably noticed from the Home page, and available for purchase at Amazon. There is a print version (paperback) a...
LyleAug 19, 20201 minCentennial of Women's Suffrage TodayAugust 18, 2020. On this day 100 years ago, America adopted the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the vote. It was a great...
LyleAug 3, 20201 minSelf-publishing progressUploaded manuscript and cover to Amazon KDP. They passed the quality check. (Probably because I followed all their guidance on formatting...
LyleAug 2, 20201 minSubmitted to Amazon KDPI finished reviewing my final draft, found and fixed a few problems, then submitted it to Amazon KDP 8-1-20. Pretty easy process so far. ...
LyleJul 28, 20201 minReady to Publish?Just finished my Word draft incorporating everything I could learn about book design. It seems Amazon self-publishing (KDP) will accept a...
LyleJul 25, 20201 minISBN, LCCN, etc.I got my ISBN for the book's paperback version. I applied for an LCCN. Then I worked on getting the images integrated into the book. I do...
LyleJul 17, 20201 minMore squalid details of getting ready for publishingTurning illustrations into high-resolution grayscale (see separate post), I get that. Now my Word document keeps sending my endnotes down...
LyleJul 15, 20201 minProgressLots of progress lately. I've been too busy to post much. But now I have massaged the images (see separate post on Grayscale). As far as ...
LyleJul 15, 20201 minGrayscaleThe advice was that images for the book in black & white must be set in grayscale. How hard could that be? Well, it has been a grueling g...
LyleJun 28, 20201 minFinal laps?Just finished a review draft that I am pretty happy with. It's now out for a kind of peer review. Still polishing. Focus has moved somewh...
LyleJun 8, 20201 minWhew!Finished combing over my combing over of Beatrice's 1,000 pages of letters. This produced something like 33 pages of my (draft) book. She...
LyleMay 27, 20201 minThe Other WomenThe other woman in my last post was Evelyn. The relationship only lasted a month. Then in January 1919, Swinburne was off to Buzzards Bay...
LyleMay 15, 20201 minDetour to Buzzards BayIn writing about these suffragists, detours from Scituate are common. The Smiths living in East Boston. Beatrice traveling around the cou...
LyleMay 14, 20201 minStill slogging in ScituateNow I am 5/6ths of the way through Beatrice's letters to her husband, up to July 1919. Looks like they are definitely divorcing. She stil...
LyleMay 3, 20201 minTough slogJust when I thought I could see the end of researching and writing (but not publishing), I tackled a pile of letters from Beatrice. The N...
LyleApr 19, 20201 minSuffrage Sites Added to TrailThe National Votes for Women Trail is at http://ncwhs.org/votes-for-women-trail/#trail. It is a virtual (online) trail and a good idea. I...