Deception By An Omission Of The Truth

I Wanted To Write About Women And Their Work, And About Valuing The Work We, As Women, Choose To Do. Too Many Women I Knew Disparaged Their Work. Many Working Mothers Thought They Ought To Be Home With Their Children Instead, So They Carried Around Too Much Guilt To Enjoy Much Job Satisfaction.

Two Quilters Who Have Just Met Will Be Strangers Only Until Their Mutual Passion For Quilting Is Revealed. Then They Can Talk For Hours Like The Best Of Friends.

Beginning Writers Are Often Advised To 'write What You Know,' And Since I Knew About Quilters - Their Quirks, Their Inside Jokes, Their Disputes And Their Generosity, Their Quarrels And Their Kindnesses - The Lives Of Quilters Became A Natural Subject For Me. Quilting Wove Together My Two Themes As Completely And Effortlessly As I Could Have Hoped.

Over The Years, I've Traveled To Many Places For Inspiration And Research, Including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, And Hawaii.

When I Was Working On My First Novel, 'the Quilter's Apprentice,' I Knew I Wanted To Write About Friendship, Especially Women's Friendship And How Women Use Friendship To Sustain Themselves And Nurture Each Other.