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Thursday, March 18, 2021

Actor Nicole Berry performs Bridget Sullivan, Lizzie Borden's maid

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Well, it's been quite the hiatus! Nearly a year later, I'm realizing I ought to have logged "This Pandemic Year."  ...
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Saturday, May 02, 2020

Book recommendations Spring 2020

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Here's the latest installment of my periodic (but maybe not reliably scheduled) twice-yearly book recommendations list. I'm thri...
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Sunday, January 26, 2020

Anguish and Intensity: the making of a Jane Austen Regency gown

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Gina Mulligan, left, and me. Learn how I struggled to create this white Regency gown. I joined the Jane Austen Society of North Amer...
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Saturday, August 03, 2019

Bridget on the stairs: a post for the Lizzie Borden anniversary

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This post is for the anniversary of the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden, husband and wife, killed August 4, 1892. Andrew's daughter...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Freelancing

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I've had some happy success with my freelancing recently. Here are a few articles I've been excited about in the last year or so. An...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

8th annual Chin Up for Writers Day

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Gulliver from the New York Public Library's collections Yep, akin to Festivus, I invented my own national day, and it is on its ei...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Introducing the Mailstrom Writing Clinic

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For nine years, I taught the online novel writing classes for mediabistro, including developing curriculum for an advanced class. When th...
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Erika M
I'm a freelancer and a historical novelist. The Witch's Trinity is about medieval witchcraft and was a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book and Stoker finalist. The Murderer's Maid: a Lizzie Borden Novel tells the American legend from the point of view of the Irish maid Bridget Sullivan, while Woman of Ill Fame is about a Gold Rush prostitute caught up in a serial killer plot. I'm fascinated by a lot of stuff and (used to) blog (more frequently) about it: history, road trips, suffrage, museums, the Gold Rush, witchcraft, murder, Victorians, cursed Egyptian tombs. My freelance work has appeared in Smithsonian, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Fodor's, Chicago Tribune, Lit Hub, and more.
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