News on the Little Women Front

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy in Production Copy editing is complete. The illustrations have all been gathered. The layout has been designed. Even though it doesn't come out until next August, between now and then I will be busy helping to usher it into the world. Next month I'll be in New York to participate in a panel at the Modern Language Association convention, and…

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A book is coming

I'm happy to say that my new book onĀ Little Women is in production. The manuscript is in and the copyeditor is hard at work. The cover designers have been working hard as well. I reveal the new cover and title in the latest issue of my newsletter, The Bluestocking Bulletin. Here's a sneakĀ  peek: There are also links to the book online and…

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Bright Minds, Fabulous Nonfiction

That's the tagline for a (relatively) new discussion group I and some other nonfiction authors have started in Facebook. We are calling it Illuminate and hope to shine a light on really great mainstream narrative nonfiction--history, biography, literary studies, cultural studies--particularly, but not exclusively, by or about women. There are great groups out there for fiction lovers, but where are the ones that…

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