by Stephanie Dray | Jun 22, 2015 | A Day of Fire, Awards, My Works
I’ve been remiss in not mentioning this before now. However, with the Historical Novel Society Convention only days away, I wanted to review the many reasons that I’m excited to go. First and foremost amongst those reasons, of course, is the chance to meet...
by Stephanie Dray | Mar 11, 2015 | America's First Daughter, American Revolution, My Works, Research
Research While we included a partial list of our sources in the acknowledgments of America’s First Daughter, we couldn’t include everything. If you’re looking to learn more about Martha Patsy Jefferson Randolph, her father, their family, their friends and their...
by Stephanie Dray | Mar 11, 2015 | America's First Daughter, American Revolution, Book Clubs, For Readers, My Works
If you’re ready to book club Jeffersonian style, my co-author Laura Kamoie and I have this fun resource for you! It includes food, beverage and musical ideas, plus some little tidbits you might not have known. And, if you’re looking for a Jeffersonian...
by Stephanie Dray | Mar 17, 2014 | America's First Daughter, For Readers, Fun Stuff, Historical Fiction Genre, Research
Laura Kamoie and I get a lot of questions about the basis of William Short’s character in America’s First Daughter. The wonderful Megan Brett did me and my co-author a solid last weekend and went to UVA to help us find a letter in which one of Patsy...
by Stephanie Dray | Mar 17, 2014 | For Readers, Works in Progress
I usually shy away from talking about my writing process (except on Facebook or when I’m teaching a class) because it seems self-indulgent. But many thanks to the bright and shiny Christy English for reminding me that readers want to know, and for asking me a...
by Stephanie Dray | Mar 13, 2014 | Cleopatra Selene, Daughters of the Nile, For Readers, Lily of the Nile, My Works, Song of the Nile
Cleopatra Selene is primarily remembered for being the daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and the Roman Triumvir, Marcus Antonius. But as the Queen of Mauretania, Cleopatra Selene should be remembered for more than this if only because she was the last Ptolemaic...
