Drunks, slave catchers and 19th century chauvinists trigger the women’s rights movement

Yes! My book is out. A Shocking & Unnatural Incident is available from Dog Ear Publishing, Amazon and other online bookstores.

A Shocking & Unnatural Incident is an historical fiction book portraying temperance, abolition and women’s rights as the sparks that lit the First Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848.

Tomboy Tess wears pants, spits, fights boys and yearns for independence and adventure along the Erie Canal. Beany is the shy daughter of August, a runaway slave who works for Tess’ family. Lucy is the ambitious daughter of a wealthy family who wants to attend college and become a lawyer, but her father expects her to marry one instead.

The girls have nothing in common until they become enmeshed in Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s First Woman’s Rights Convention taking root in Seneca Falls. They become friends when Amelia Bloomer takes them under her wing, offering them employment and emotional support at The Lily, her temperance and women’s rights newspaper.

Things turn serious when Tess’ alcoholic and mean-spirited father turns Beany and her mother over to slave catchers. Tess and Lucy team up with Tess’ brother Cooper to free them from jail. This adventure brings about catastrophic consequences and Tess finds herself together with Coop and Beany adrift on a boat in the Erie Canal facing the unknown.

Go to historicalfictionbook.net and let tomboy Tess start you on this historical journey in her own no-nonsense style.

Thanks for your support,
Georgia

A Shocking & Unnatural Incident

I've been working on this book since the winter of 1991. The first manuscript I sent to potential publishers was nothing like the final product I sent to Dog Ear Publishing--17 years later. No wonder none of them wanted it. But THIS manuscript is good. Very good. I'm proud of it.

The story features three young girls whose lives reflect the three issues leading up to the First Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848: temperance, abolition and women's rights.

So, Tess is the daughter of a drunken handyman; Beany the daughter of a runaway slave; Lucy the daughter of a wealthy abolitionist attorney. Once my Web site's up, I'll link to it and you can learn more about the girls and their adventures and traumas.

In the meantime I'm reading Brian Jud's Beyond the Bookstore, learning everything there is to know about marketing.