Jodi Daynard's Blog, page 11

Time Correction: Needham Historical Society 2:00 March 10!

Hi, folks – My reading and presentation at the Needham Historical Society is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. tomorrow, Sunday, March 10th, not 1:00 p.m., as originally scheduled. Don’t forget to “spring forward” tonight!

 

New Essay Published at Readingthepast.com

Read my new essay, “Things you never learned in School about our founding Fathers and Mothers.”

 

http://readingthepast.com/

New Essay Published at Readingthepast.blogspot.com

Read my new essay, “Things you never learned in School about our founding Fathers and Mothers.”

 

http://readingthepast.blogspot.com/

Event Cancellation: JP Writes & Invites, tonight, March 7

JP Writes & Invites reading of The Midwife’s Revolt is cancelled for tonight.

Sorry to all those who planned to attend. But if the writer doesn’t want to go to her own event, I think it’s bad sign. New England skies strut their mastery over us today with high winds and snow. We’ll be rescheduling this event, and I’ll let you know the new date when I get it.

Time Correction for March 10th reading: 2:00 P.M. at Needham Historical Society

Time correction: My reading at Needham Historical Society this Sunday, March 10, begins at 2:00 P.M., not 1:00 P.M. Hope to see you there!

http://needhamhistory.org/

Bostonians: Save the dates! March 7th in JP and March 10th in Needham

Dear Bostonians: I will be reading from The Midwife’s Revolt at two locations this week:

Boston Public Library, Jamaica Plain Branch. Thursday, March 7, at 6:45 p.m.

http://calendar.boston.com/boston_ma/...

and also

Needham Historical Society, Needham. Sunday, March 10, at 1:00 p.m.

http://needhamhistory.org/the-midwife...

“Like” my Facebook author page to get $4 off the novel’s purchase price at the readings!

author Q&A.

I see that many people have added The Midwife's Revolt to their shelves. Thank you! I would like to invite you to read a chapter at jodidaynard.com, so that I can get my novel off your shelf and into your hands! Here's the link to read the first few chapters.

http://www.jodidaynard.com/books/the-...

While you're there, why not stop by my news page/blog and ask questions. Curious about the daily lives of Abigail and John Adams? About how women lived during the 18th century in America? About how babies were delivered, their survival rates, or typical "treatments" of the time? Ask away and I will try to give you the answers you seek. Look forward to speaking with you!

The Midwife’s Revolt is now available on Nook.

You could be  sitting in a comfy chair and transported to the 18th century in the next two minutes…

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-m...

The Midwife’s Revolt on Kindle

Hi, all. This is just to let you know that, beginning today, The Midwife’s Revolt is available on Kindle for $4.95. For those of you who’ve got it on your Goodreads shelf, now would be a great time to finally read it. Happy reading! — Jodi

http://www.amazon.com/The-Midwifes-Re...

Epic Snowfall

We woke up to blinding white light. The snow is still falling, and our cars are submerged in wave-shaped drifts. My spaniel, Bailey, is completely submerged. His fur is the color of the snow and only his brown spots let us know where he is as he undulates, dolphin-like, above and beneath. James Joyce’s closing passage from “The Dead” comes to mind:

“Yes, the news­pa­pers were right: snow was gen­eral all over Ire­land. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, fur­ther west­wards, softly falling into the dark muti­nous Shan­non waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely church­yard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and head­stones, on the spears of the lit­tle gate, on the bar­ren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the uni­verse and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the liv­ing and the dead.”