The diary began with a thought that refused to go away and so I stopped writing my book, Between Worlds and wrote the first book Diary of Margery Blake in just 5 weeks, followed by a couple of months editing and research.
My first historical novel without any hint of the supernatural…Except that I am convinced I was meant to write this book to show women of today the power they have and continue to give away.
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After writing it and having it published, I was excited when it won the 2017 Marie Irvine Literary Excellence Award, followed by the Women’s Firebird Award in 2019 and 5 Stars from the Readers Favourite Awards. I gave talks to variety of women’s groups and spread the power of this book to women, to learn from what was and never go back to being less than any man.
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I didn’t think I would write anymore, but in 2020 I had a sudden idea that refused to go away – I knew that feeling! So I listened and voila, another ‘diary’ popped into my head and I wrote, Diary of Betsy Shaw within months and now after an extraordinary wait, the new diary is ready for the public.
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Due for Release – 7th January 2025 here
The next diary is underway, Diary of Maggie Walsh and I hope to finish that this year.
Each diary is connected by the women authors and within the pages, the women recount their experiences of life as women in the Victorian era, forced marriages, motherhood, prostitution, asylums, kidnapping, afternoon tea and secrets and so much more.
My hope is to write 6 diaries connecting the women through the years.
Why did I write them?
I see women giving their power away to men, to society, to ‘fit in’ when we are equal, we are the mothers of this earth, the warriors, the ones who must be both feminine and masculine, we embrace the goddess and dance our power, we are the wild banshee and cunning gypsy, we are the sisters, connected by blood, we are the power of creation while connected to the moon as our menstrual cycle celebrates our power. We are the daughters of the earth and of fire as our passions ignite with every monstrosity done to us by cowardly men who fear us so much they created ‘religions’ to subdue our power while they gawk at our bodies yet repulsed at the purpose of them. We are not men’s ‘play things’. We are not here to be pestered and mauled for their pleasure, we are women.
We are woman and we will never be still, subdued, beaten or less than, but equal in all.