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Historical Novel: Aged Like Fine Wine - KATHERINE P. STILLERMAN
Bursting With News My website, developed in 2018, recently showed signs of wear and tear when my blog stopped showing up. Thanks to the team at Clever Robot for diagnosing and fixing the problem! They discovered that the code was breaking down. They transferred the content of the website over to a new and improved […]
Women's Fiction Day - KATHERINE P. STILLERMAN
I’m excited to be participating in Women’s Fiction Day, sponsored by the Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA). To celebrate the occasion, I’m sponsoring a drawing for a giveaway of a Kindle copy of my fourth book in the Barton Family Series, Rising Above It: A Novel of Love, Loss, and Survival. You can […]
new - KATHERINE P. STILLERMAN
Alexander McCall Smith is a writer I have been following for years, beginning with No. 1 Ladies Detection Agency, and continuing with the Sunday Philosopher’s Club, the 44 Scotland Street series, and the Corduroy Mansion series. There is so much to be enjoyed about Smith’s books: from his descriptions of life in Botwana, his country […]
BookMarks Featured Authors - KATHERINE P. STILLERMAN
Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors In the past two weeks, I’ve been busy reading a few of the books whose authors will be featured at the 2018 Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors, September 6-9. To allow more time for reading, I’m not writing my own book reviews as I normally do. It’s […]
Character Quotes - KATHERINE P. STILLERMAN
One of my writing goals is to develop Rising Above It “You don’t know what really happened, so you gone to making things up. But I guess that’ just human nature. We feel like we have to explain everything, and sometimes there just ain’t no explanation.” Georgia Barnes In the Fullness of Time […]
Women and World War II: The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes - KATHERINE P. STILLERMAN
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes This book is set in the 1930’s prior to the outbreak of World War II. However, it deals with the theme of strong and independent women who push against the social norms and boundaries set for women in the era. Alice Wright escapes her stifling hometown in […]
Kathy's Book List for Novels on Women in World War II - KATHERINE P. STILLERMAN
As a reader and author, I am fascinated by the stories of strong and independent women who challenge the gender norms and barriers of their time. The World War II era is rife with fiction about such women. And as it happens, I’m researching World War II for my next novel, A Piece of […]
Women and World War II: Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict - KATHERINE P. STILLERMAN
Woman Behind the Scenes Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict. This is a novel that explores many of the familiar historical events surrounding the career of Winston Churchill, narrated by his wife, Lady Clementine Hozier Churchill. Through her eyes, we experience Churchill’s rise to First Lord of the Admiralty, his demotion after his handling of the […]
Women and World War II: Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan - KATHERINE P. STILLERMAN
Manhattan Beach is a novel of suspense, wrapped around a triangle of characters whose lives become extricably intertwined on a winter day in 1934, when 11-year-old Anna Kerrigan visits the Brooklyn shoreline with her father, Eddie, and an underworld figure named Dexter Styles. Though each character will go in distinctly different directions, they are […]
Women in World War II: Home Front Girls by Suzanne Hayes and Loretta Nyhan - KATHERINE P. STILLERMAN
Friendship by Mail Homefront Girls is the story of two American women brought together by a twist of fate, told entirely through their exchange of letters between January 1943 and July 1946. Gloria is a bright and energetic young mother from New England; Rita is a Midwestern professor’s wife with a generous heart and love […]