It's been really busy getting out the word about my new book, Summer Suffragists, checking out possible book awards, and arranging for a ...

It 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...

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...

August 18, 2020. On this day 100 years ago, America adopted the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the vote. It was a great...

Uploaded manuscript and cover to Amazon KDP. They passed the quality check. (Probably because I followed all their guidance on formatting...

I 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. ...

Just finished my Word draft incorporating everything I could learn about book design. It seems Amazon self-publishing (KDP) will accept a...

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...

Turning illustrations into high-resolution grayscale (see separate post), I get that. Now my Word document keeps sending my endnotes down...

Lots 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 ...

The 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...

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...

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...

The other woman in my last post was Evelyn. The relationship only lasted a month. Then in January 1919, Swinburne was off to Buzzards Bay...

In writing about these suffragists, detours from Scituate are common. The Smiths living in East Boston. Beatrice traveling around the cou...

Now 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...

Just 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...

The 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...

Looks like my latest draft chapter (on Judith & Sylvanus Smith) has boosted the book's page count big time. My post on Feb. 8 said "Up to...

I always liked this phrase from the movie Gladiator. And it applies to me these days. Just finished a pretty polished draft of my chapter...