The New York City Chapter of the Historical Novel Society presents What Madeleine L'Engle Taught Me: Building a Literary Community, recorded on October 20, 2025. Stephanie Cowell and Kathrine Kirkpatrick, two former students of the great writer reflect on her influence on their writing, their 36 years of friendship, and building a literary community. They also read from their just-published novels: Stephanie’s The Man in the Stone Cottage about the three Brontë sisters and a mysterious shepherd on the moors, and Katherine’s To Chase the Glowing Hours about the discovery of King Tut’s tomb. They also took questions from the audience. A fascinating program for our writers and readers alike. Thank you and enjoy the program.

HNS-NYC website: https://hnsnyc.org

Guests:

Stephanie Cowell https://www.stephaniecowell.com/

The Man in the Stone Cottage: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1646036247

Katherine Kirkpatrick https://katherinekirkpatrick.com/

To Chase the Glowing Hours: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1646036271

This presentation is a collaboration between the New York City chapters of the Romance Writers of America and the Historical Novel Society. On August 2, 2025, Dan Woods the COO of Draft2Digital provided an engaged joint audience with information on getting the packaging right for your books so marketing efforts pay off, what is working best in paid advertising, marketing you can do that is free, plus much more. We're pleased to present this joint venture to our members and hope to do more in the future with this and other writing organizations.

Presenter:

Dan Woods, COO Draft2Digital (https://draft2digital.com/)

Additional information:

RWA/NYC website: https://rwanyc.com

Contact: info@rwanyc.com

HNS-NYC website: https://www.hnsnyc.org

Contact: info@hnsnyc.org

The New York City Chapter of the Historical Novel Society presents this special program recorded on June 7, 2025 in the virtual reality space of the Foremothers Café. Helen Lundström Erwin hosted us in her VR space inspired by the research she conducted for her book Sour Milk in Sheep’s Wool. She invited our members to a discussion of images provided by authors Loretta Goldberg (Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: a World War II Novel of Love and Loss ), Faith L. Justice (Theodosian Women series ) and Sarah Relyea (Playground Zero). They talked about the images and their relationship to their books; social customs dealing with marriage and gay/lesbian relationships in the times they write about, and much more. A fascinating program for our writers and readers alike.

Additional Information:HNS-NYC website: https://hnsnyc.org

Guests:

Loretta Goldberg https://lorettagoldberg.com/

Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: a World War II Novel of Love andLoss https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4MH8D63

Faith L. Justice https://faithljustice.com

The Theodosain Women series https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QFLHD6K/ and Sword of the Gladiatrix https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WTCSPN6/

Sarah Relyea https://www.sarahrelyea.com

Playground Zero: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1631528890

Host:

Helen Lundström Erwin https://helenerwin.com/

Sour Milk in Sheep’s Wool (19C Sweden)

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Helen-Lundstr%C3%B6m-Erwin/author/B0979XTDXV