Talkin’ about Bessie, Part II

Talkin’ About Bessie, my biog­ra­phy of avi­a­tor, Eliz­a­beth Cole­man, was an exer­cise in extreme patience and per­se­ver­ance. If you’ve read Part I of this blog post, you already know how tax­ing this project was from the start! The entire saga was a bit too long for one blog post, though, so I decid­ed to break […]

Talkin’ about Bessie, Part I

The Book that Almost Was­n’t: That could be the title of this book. The jour­ney from con­cept to book­shelves is a bit of a saga. Some books are hard­er to birth than oth­ers, and Bessie was a book-baby in breach! I’ll explain. It seems like for­ev­er ago that then Orchard edi­tor Melanie Kroupa asked me […]