Archive for October, 2008
Oct
30
Posted by wilderwriter on
October 30, 2008
Winter’s Daughter is now available in Trade Paperback. I am OVER the moon.
Latest Reviews for Winter’s Daughter
“I can not wait for the rest of the Coven series. It is an absolute keeper!” Enchanting Reviews
“I read Winter’s Daughter one Saturday, totally ignoring everything around me. Engaging, gripping, and page-turning are a few terms I would use to describe Matt and Syn and their path to the truth and lasting love. I will be keeping a close eye on Ms. Wilder’s site to see when the next sister’s book is going to come out. For all of these reasons and some I can’t seem to put words to, I Joyfully Recommend Winter’s Daughter.” – Joyfully Reviewed
“Winter’s Daughter is an excellent tale that is well balanced and one of those rare finds that you will want to revisit again.” eMuse Mag
“The depths of J.C. Wilder’s story drew me in immediately. Her characters walked right off the page and engaged me, as real as any person I know. Intrigue, magic, romance–Winter’s Daughter captivated me and left me wanting more.” ~Cheyenne McCray, USA Today bestselling author of SEDUCED BY MAGIC
“If you buy no other book this month you have to get this one” – Fallen Angel Reviews, Recommended Read
Oct
28
Posted by wilderwriter on
October 28, 2008
Inez Milholland-Boissevain (1886-1916) was born a child of privlege in 1886. The daughter of John Milholland, a newspaper editorialist and a reformer with the NAACP. She graduated from Vassar in 1909 and earned her law degree from New York University – a very gutsy move for a young woman in the early twentieth century.
After college, Inez joined a Greenwich Village group of progressives and socialists who created The Masses – the first magazine to fuse radical art, political commentary and graphic satire. She also protested the US entering into WWI, going so far as to travel to Europe to spread her message.
After meeting Alice Paul, Inez was recruited to join NAWSA Congressional Committee’s. She soon revealed a powerful ability to move crowds at rallies on behalf of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CU).
In 1913, Inez led the first woman’s sufferage parade in Washington DC on the same day Woodrow Wilson was sworn into office. Dressed as a warrior on a white horse, Inez became the icon of the sufferagist movement.
By 1916 Milholland had become one of the highest-profile leaders of the CU. She traveled all over the US making speeches, gathering women to join the cause. Despite warnings from her physician she persisted in touring despite pronounced ill health. While speaking in Los Angeles, Inez collapsed at the podium while delivering a suffrage speech. She was rushed to the hospital and, despite treatment for pernicious anemia, she died weeks later on November 25, 1916.
Her dedication, iconic idealism, and tragic death made her a martyr of the suffrage movement. Her last public words were, “Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?”
In January 1917, Woodrow Wilson spurned a delegation that attempted to present him with resolutions crafted in Milholland’s honor. The National Women’s Party (formerly the Congressional Union) changed tactics from a focus on lobbying to more direct action. Within days the NWP began a new campaign of picketing the White House and three and half years later, women received the right to vote.
Oct
27
Posted by wilderwriter on
October 27, 2008
Next Tuesday is election day. It is on that day that we, as citizens of the United States, have a chance to have input into our government. It was only 88 years ago that women, after many years of sacrifice by thousands of women, received the right to vote.
88 years.
That really isn’t that long ago. And if you think about it, it’s only been 31 years since the Equal Rights Amendment was passed. Remember the ERA? The amendment that was added to the constitution stating women should be paid and treated as equals to men. Its such an antiquated idea in my mind that people would presume that because we have breasts that we must not have brains…or ability….or talent.
It wasn’t that long ago John McCain was quoted as saying the reason women don’t make the same amount of money as men is that we don’t have the training to do so…
Screw you McCain – bet mine is bigger than yours.
So anyway – in an effort to honor those who fought for the right, nay, obligation to vote, I’m going to post a few profiles of the women who put their lives on the line to stand up and demand democracy for citizens of this country. These are my heros.
Oct
24
Posted by wilderwriter on
October 24, 2008
Four were rescued, five are dead and two are missing. I can’t help but think of my friends fishing on the Bering Sea right now.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/565157.html
Oct
23
Posted by wilderwriter on
October 23, 2008
Winter’s Daughter will be released on Tuesday! To celebrate, I’m holding a free-for-all on my chat list, The Wilder Side. Post a message from now until Tuesday and you will be entered into a drawing for a free paperback or ebook.
New drawings every day!
Run, don’t walk to join the fun!
Oct
23
Posted by wilderwriter on
October 23, 2008
Yes, it’s that time again. Time to hop on the bathroom scales and wish you’d weighed yourself before chugging a 32 ounce glass of water. The bill is now due for that one little cookie you snitched from your kid’s lunch.
No, I haven’t been looking in your windows. LOL!
My total for the week is…two pounds. Yes, I actually LOST this week. LOL. I wish it had been more but then again, I always wish it was more. I have to admit that I haven’t been on my best behavior either so I’ll take my two pounds and run with it.
Some of you have emailed me to ask what I’m doing to lose weight and my answer is simple – eat well and exercise. I know – not nearly as exciting as you’d hoped…but there it is.
Exercise – I have some physical limitations that prohibit me from doing standard exercises. Thanks to my craptastic knees, I can’t run (wouldn’t want to) and my walking is limited. So instead I go to the pool.
First off – I would live in the water if I could. It is the best thing you can do exercise if you have joint pain – the arthritis foundation recommends water aerobics.
I took a few classes then figured out I’m not a team player. So now I go to the gym (its pricey but you have to ask yourself – aren’t you worth x number of dollars a year?) three days a week and I do my workout for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Basically my goal is to be in the water and move all of my limbs for that length of time without stopping.
According to my weight calculator (www.keyoe.com) it burns about 400 calories.
I think the trick to exercise is to find something you really enjoy that doesn’t include having a couch strapped to your butt. I love to walk and years ago I would walk every morning. Now with my knee degenerating – if I walk then I pretty much have to take it easy the rest of the day. And if I overdo it, I run the risk of not being able to walk for a couple of days – so its the water for me.
How did you do this week?
Oct
20
Posted by wilderwriter on
October 20, 2008
For some reason, Maxim magazine has started sending me issues even though I’ve never read the mag nor requested it. Seeing that I’m female – that hasn’t deterred them from wasting more trees in order to give me a good laugh.
Out of curiosity, I opened one and scanned the pages. It is a nice, glossy magazine that would appeal to the hormones of young men as its designed to do. Should it surprise me that every photo of a woman, with the exception of an unflattering Photo of Hillary Clinton – was naked or in lingerie?
Women on their backs with their legs in the air – high heels of course because no one could walk in those things so you’d have to be on your back in order to not fall off and get hurt – nude with only a towel – sexy tousled hair – noisy lipstick – sprawled on a bed – in lingerie stretched out on the floor – mouths open…you get the picture.
And they say romance is soft-core porn?
Any photo of a woman with clothing on was unflattering and usually an advertisement. One was a housewife in the cliched terry cloth robe, curlers in the hair, green face mask – next to a woman in lingerie.
On the other hand there were the men. All dressed in suits with women in skimpy night-out attire hanging on their arms…that’s what draws us ya know. Suits and enough hair product to dent steel – that REALLY turns us on.
Men…you want to know how to impress the ladies? Read a romance novel – that will get you much farther than Maxim will.
