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Content warning Queer Romance Club April — Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell - mild spoilers to end of Part 1

The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades

After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone

By Ella Jeffries

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-nations-first-black-female-doctor-blazed-a-path-for-women-in-medicine-but-she-was-left-out-of-the-story-for-decades-180986328/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

Rebecca Lee Crumpler at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Rebecca+Lee+Crumpler&submit_search=Search

Cover of A Book of Medical Discourses (1883) by Rebecca Lee Crumpler, M.D. ​The original 1883 cover of A Book of Medical Discourses by Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler is understated and formal, characteristic of 19th-century medical publications. It features the title in a classic serif font, centered on a plain background, with no additional imagery or elaborate design elements. The cover includes the full title: "A Book of Medical Discourses in Two Parts," followed by a brief description of each part's focus. The author's name, "Rebecca Crumpler, M.D.," is prominently displayed beneath the title, along with the publication details: "Boston: Cashman, Keating & Co., Printers. Fayette Court, 603 Washington St. 1883."

How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in northern Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

In the book the fictional Sarclet Castle on the east coast of Caithness has a great hall based on that at Eilean Donan Castle, shown here. The central character dines in it when he stays at Sarclet Castle.

Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/ets/index.html

This modern image shows the great hall at Eilean Donan Castle, on which that at the fictional Sarclet Castle is based. It is a large and imposing stone-walled room with a blue and green tartan carpet and an exposed-beam wooden ceiling. There’s a large dining table in the centre of the room and a stone fireplace occupies much of the right-hand wall. Lights are suspended from the ceiling. The front cover of ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is shown in the top right corner.

1/4: Do you include in-jokes, hidden messages, or “Easter eggs” in your writing?
There are definitely allusions that only come across if you share a certain cultural background, but isn’t that going to be true of all writing? You can’t footnote everything that some people might not get.
But I’m careful to avoid anything that’s too clearly grounded in contemporary culture or idiomatic language, because that could break the worldbuilding.

🖤 My novel GODHUNTER will be available in audio starting on April 8th, narrated by Marnye Young. I’m so excited to share this trailer with everyone!

🖤 If you’re interested, the universal book link in my profile lists some of the marketplaces where you can order it, but I couldn’t get them all up. When in doubt, please try a search! I hope it will be in available libraries too.

@bookstodon

A video showing images of a woman in a black veil, a graveyard, a crow, ships, the sea, lanterns, and underwater images. All relevant to the book. The first frame text reads "Coming April 8th." The last reads "Now Available in Audio."

No, people, you don't understand

The Animal Family is the most damn wholesome book I have ever read in my life.

Like seriously.

There are some many dawwwww moments in it I can't even.

Case in point: big awkward hunter falls in love with a mermaid. And she moves into his house. Except she hates that the house doesn't move. She can't sleep still. So he makes her a rocking chair.

And they adopt a bear. And a lynx. AND a baby.

And it is so beautifully written.