Two Nerdy History Girls on YouTube

Fashion Plate, Ackermann’s Repository 1 June 1810 courtesy Los Angeles County Public Library

A bit late with this, but at least it’s not time sensitive. For those of you who missed the latest Two Nerdy History Girls chat, courtesy Meena Jain at the Ashland Public Library, it’s now online for your viewing enjoyment. That is to say, we hope it’s enjoyable. Meena starts us off with a question that frequently comes up: Were people dirty and smelly way back then?

You can tune in for the answer here.

 And just in case the link gets sulky or something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_pviLv3brg

Meena has very kindly invited us back, so please watch for the next Two Nerdy History Girls chat sometime in June.

And in other news: A stellar group of romance authors and I will appear, live and in person, in Ashland, Massachusetts in May. Please watch this space for details as we get closer to the date.

Two Nerdy History Girls: Another return engagement

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1856-1871 Fashion Print

©Victoria and Albert Museum, London

You don’t hear from me for months. Then I’m bothering you weekly. This makes sense to me. I don’t send blog posts unless I’ve something to say that doesn’t belong in the Work In Progress.

But an EVENT is coming up soon. Author Susan Holloway Scott and I return under the kind auspices of the Ashland Public Library and Super-librarian Meena Jain to talk nerdy history. Some of you may recall our blog, named, aptly enough Two Nerdy History Girls. It’s still there, still searchable, though we stopped posting a few years ago.

While we’ve stopped posting blogs there, we haven’t stopped being nerdy about history, and so we welcome the opportunity to talk about what we feel is truly interesting about the past. The focus is not on politics and wars but on how people lived: what they wore, what they ate, where they lived, how they got from one place to another. To us, research combines detective work with time travel.

If you read my books, you probably have a bit of interest in the past, too. Maybe you have questions. I do hope so, because that’s fun. Even when we don’t know the answers, you can be sure we’ll jump at the chance to hunt them down.

DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS

When: 10 January 7PM

Where: Virtual

To join us, please register at: https://bit.ly/apl-2nerdy3

Happy New Year!

© Victoria and Albert Museum

It’s hard to believe we’re starting a new one already. Some, but not all, will be glad to see the back of 2022. In my case, it had its ups and downs, but the unblocking of my writer’s block brightened my perspective considerably.

Thank you so much for your patience and understanding and the very kind messages you’ve sent over the course of the year. I wish I’d been able to answer everybody, but that’s an unfulfilled wish for a number of reasons. Among other things, my author email ran amok, and the repair process had some unintended consequences. In short, things got lost.

Still, we can’t totally blame technical problems. Throughout the writer’s block I did continue writing, with a couple of breaks, and that was where my time went. It was very bad writing, but it seemed to me that the only way to get through it was to keep on doing it until the problem, whatever it was, got out of my system. That method seems to have worked. The Blackwoods have stopped being impossible. They’re still a bit out of sorts, and it’s still slow going, but at least it’s going and at least they’re making a real effort to cooperate. Fingers crossed we can get through this whole thing in the brand new year.

I wish you a beautiful 2023, filled with good friends, good times, good books, in whatever order you like.