Sophia Alexander, author

Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz is not a book I necessarily recommend.   I honestly didn’t much like the protagonist, Portia, and y...

Lance Levens is a highly-regarded, long-standing member of my writing group. He has a handful of novels out, some available on Amazon and...

The Guineveres is a brilliant piece of writing.  Engaging emotionally, drawing us into a reclusive convent school, the novel is one o...

Here are two wonderful books that have influenced my editing of Silk: Caroline's Story . While I am charmed by Sarah Chrisman...

I enjoyed getting to know Marguerite and the Valois court in Sophie Perinot's new book, Medicis Daughter. Not only is this 16th-century ...

There’s a Victorian couple living in Washington state.  Yes, they wear clothes that bring to mind reenactors, but no, they’re not part of s...

King George I was born on this day in 1660.  As the Protestant great-grandson of King James, George Louis was the first of the Hanoverian...