Life is pretty exciting these days. I'm busy planning my promotional tour to Pennsylvania for Waterproof in May. Waterproof is out in the Kindle edition and will be out in the print edition by May 1. In the middle of my Pennsylvania tour, I'm going to Amesbury, MA for a reading/reception for Redfield Farm on May 17. They're tying it into a celebration of their own town's involvement in the Underground Railroad. The American Quaker poet and abolitionist, John Greenleaf Whittier, lived in Amesbury and was part of the Underground Railroad. His home is open to the public, so I will get to visit while I'm there.
Sales of Redfield Farm continue to be brisk. It is out as an e-book for the Kindle and other formats and is still selling well in the print edition. I really appreciate the notes and emails I get from readers who have read and enjoyed Redfield Farm.
It will be fun to watch Waterproof's progress. Launching a new book is kind of like sending your baby off to kindergarten. You watch and worry and hope. This book is completely different from Redfield Farm, but I hope the story will be just as engaging. Once I get it launched, I'll turn my attention to the next one, Looking For Jane, about a poor, handicapped orphan girl who decides that Calamity Jane is her mother and sets out to find her. The quest leads her down and up America's rivers and introduces her to a whole array of characters and adventures. Coming in 2013!
As you can probably see, my main interest is history -- almost any history fascinates me -- local history, family history, social history -- but when I write, I seem drawn to Pennsylvania history. That’s where I was born, where I grew up and where my family roots go deep. So Pennsylvania is the setting, or at least the starting point for most of my work. Remember that catch phrase from several years ago, "You have a friend in Pennsylvania?" Well, I have a lot of them and I'm making more all the time. Lucky me.
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Judith Redline Coopey
Author, Historian, Genealogist
