Janet's Writing Blog

I write southern historical fiction, local history, and I've written a devotional book. The two novels I'm writing are set in Virginia and the Carolinas in the 1760s. My weekly blog started out to follow my journey as a writer and a reader, but in 2025 it has been greatly expanded to include current events and politics in the United States as I see our democracy under attack from within. The political science major in me cannot sit idly by and remain silent.

janetsm in My local history newspaper column, Writing for magazines August 6, 2013July 18, 2014 34 Words

I revisited my 2009 newspaper series about the 1849 Monroe Meteorite today and worked on turning those seven columns into a magazine article.

I’ll let you know if that goes anywhere. It’s not easy getting published.