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Tending the Hearth is a public notebook on early America, historical research, and the making of deeply researched historical fiction.
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Draft Diaries | Session #2 (opens the original)
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Draft Diaries is a series available to members of The Keeping Room to share updates about the novel I’m working on including inspiration for scenes, what I’m currently researching, rabbit holes I’m exploring, and tools I’m using.In this second episode, I’m sharing a bit about my modern main character and my historic main character, tidbits from my resea… Read more
Why I Write in My Books (opens the original)
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When I first met my now husband, he was shocked and appalled that I wrote in my books. One day we were on a train, riding up to see family in Washington and while he worked, I was reading The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. As I read, I underlined, starred, and wrote notes in the margins. It was a practice I’d been doing since my undergrad history days.It’s how I engage with the material. Non-fiction books essentially become a journal of sorts in which I respond briefly to the ideas and evidence, maki
Announcing our Autumn Book Club Book (opens the original)
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Thank you to everyone who voted on our poll a couple weeks ago to choose which historical fiction book we’ll be reading this fall! The people have spoken…we’ll be reading The Rowans by Beverly Cooper Pierce, which you can get as an ebook, paperback, or hardcover on bookshop.org.*Here’s the synopsis:In Massachusetts, in the years between witchcraft delusion and Revolution, a curious, insightful Tamsin Bennett comes of age apprenticed to her Grandmother Cat, child of a healer-mystic accused of wit
A Mini Syllabus | Inside the 18th Century New England Household (opens the original)
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September has always felt like a blank slate for me. A fresh start. A reset. Not to try to do “better”, but to release all the buildup of spring and summer and begin anew. In the past, that new beginning often came along with a fresh new academic year and if you’re anything like me, you may feel a bit of tenderness, almost a homesickness, this time of year as folks return to school.In this spirit of “back to school”, I made something for those of us who are not returning to school but a part of
The Seasonal Reading Room (opens the original)
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We have rooms within rooms here at Tending the Hearth. The Keeping Room is the paid tier of the Tending the Hearth Substack. It’s where I share about the process behind my debut historical fiction novel. It’s also where I share about the research I’m currently working on for both the novel as well as for my broader research interests which include women’s history, the history of medicine, and the historical overlap of magic, science, and religion.And more is coming! I’ve been excited to pour mor
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