Research – Digging In and Hitting Rocks

I was unlucky when I started researching many of the people I wrote about in The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line. It was February 1st, 2020 and the world was on the verge of a massive change.

Just days after signing the contract to write the book for my amazing publisher, Sourcebooks, society began to close down. COVID had taken over. Offices were shuttered. Movie theaters emptied. Schools went from in-person learning to virtual. No one was prepared. The virus threatened and people were dying by the thousands. Hospitals were filled. Businesses began to fail. Teachers struggled; kids felt lost. Administrators didn’t have the resources to keep up. Restaurants laid off workers.