After a decades-long career in the quilting industry, I turned my energies to fiction writing—studying craft, enrolling in week-long and year-long classes, and writing, writing, writing. My first novel, The Dressmaker of Winterset, sold to Union Square & Company, debuts in hardcover on March 3, 2027.
Here’s a description of the book:
Lessons in Chemistry meets The Scarlet Letter in an homage that places Hester in 1950s small-town Iowa instead of seventeenth century Boston. She steps off the Trailways bus on a summer day in 1956, a wedding band on her finger, but no husband in sight. The next day, she lands a job at the town’s best dress shop, and at church on Sunday, her beauty captivates Arthur Hightower, First Methodist’s unmarried junior pastor.
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