Posts by Pamela
We Have Winners!
Depending on how you count, I began working on Women Warriors in November 2016 when I signed a contract with Beacon Press, sometime in 2014, when I began the proposal, or 1989, when I read Antonia Fraser’s Warrior Queens. It’s been exciting, frustrating, exciting, terrifying, exciting, humbling, and, oh yes, exciting. Along the way I’ve…
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Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Paige Bowers
Paige Bowers first caught my attention because she kept popping up as an interesting voice in the Twitter thread of a mutual friend. Paige successfully straddles the world between journalism and history—a balancing act that is not as easy as she makes it look. A lifelong Francophile and history buff, she is the author of…
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Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Jason Porath
I must admit that I fan-girled hard when Jason Porath agreed to be part of this interview series. I’ve followed his work since 2014, when my then agent called him to my attention. Porath’s Rejected Princesses, and its sequel, Tough Mothers, began in a discussion with his Dreamworks’ co-workers over what historical woman was least…
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