Elizabeth Keckley Was A Woman Of Remarkable

Deception By An Omission Of The Truth Is As Bad As A Lie.

I've Always Wanted To Be A Writer. Ever Since I Learned To Read, I've Wanted To Share Stories With Others The Way My Favorite Writers Shared Their Stories With Me.

What I Would Give, I Thought, To Have Been Present As Elizabeth Keckley Measured Mary Lincoln For A New Gown, To Overhear Their Conversations On Topics Significant And Ordinary, To Observe The Lincoln White House From Such An Intimate Perspective. From That Moment, My Interest In Their Remarkable Friendship Was Captivated, And It Never Really Waned.

Sometimes The Most Ordinary Things Are The Ones We Learn To Miss The Most.

In My Contemporary Stories, I Write About Today's Quilters, Inventive Techniques They Use, And How Technology Has Influenced Their Art. Novels Set In The Past Let Me Have Fun Researching Patterns That Were Popular And Fabrics And Tools Available To Quilters Through History.