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What I Have Learned from Readers of The Cherokee Rose (Part 1)
Since the release of my first novel, The Cherokee Rose, just over a year ago, I have had an amazing opportunity that I never expected when I was solely writing academic histories. I…
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Reflections on the Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band Conference
(And a Note on the Name of Mary Ann Battis) In late May of 2015, I was an invited speaker at the Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band Conference held at Langston University’s Oklahoma…
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Jinx and Ruth: What’s Up With That?
SPOILER ALERT: This blog post contains numerous plot details from my novel, The Cherokee Rose! If you don’t want to know yet, stop reading now! During the Q & A after a recent…
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Writing The Cherokee Rose
The Cherokee Rose began with a history that began with the voice of a slave. In the late 1990s, I was a graduate student researching my dissertation on the subject of slavery in…
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Gardens of Memory
Photo credit: Black-eyed Susans in field, photo by Martin van der Grintin@USDA-NRCS PLANTS database. The first image that flooded my mind for the novel that would eventually become The Cherokee Rose appeared unbidden.…
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Old Mountains
One of the truest lines in the play Cherokee by Lisa D’Amour comes early on: “These are old mountains,” a character says. This line brought to mind for me the memory of…
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My Meeting with a Muse
Last week I dropped my three kids off at school and then stopped by a historic mansion. What a way to end my week — I know. I adore old houses. They enthrall…
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Westward Bound
I am sitting down to write this post before a magnificent mountain view at the end of the first month of the new year: 2015. I can’t believe that my last post appeared…