Lynne's Blog
As a science center director in a former life, my job was to show our audiences how science works, not simply to tell them. The Aha! moments made the experience real for the thousands of kids, adults, and young adults that visited. When they left, there was a good chance they would remember the scientific concept behind the hands-on exhibit.
Writing is much the same. Writers need that Aha! encounter to grow and nourish their ideas into a final piece of work. That’s what this blog is all about. It’s about MY “minds-on” adventure with words — one I enjoy sharing with readers. Whether it’s about the research aspect, the craft of writing itself, or the emotional roller coaster of putting myself out there in the public eye . . . my blog is me. Pure and simple.
I welcome your thoughts and hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.
Disaster Changes America
Way to go, Frances! If you read my last two blogs, you’ll know I digressed from my book research to my book “publishing.” Now that that’s out of the way, I’d like to return to THE TRIANGLE MURDERS. As mentioned in earlier blogs, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire...
Self-Publishing Part 2: The Good, The Bad and the Real Ugly
Creating Your Own Print and POD Books From my last blog you no doubt got the feeling I’m not enamored with self-publishing. Well, let me say, self-publishing e-books is a breeze compared to print versions. Here’s my saga. My first book, THE TRIANGLE MURDERS, was now...
Self-Publishing: Dream or Nightmare?
Wanted: Sense of Humor I digress this week from my normal Tuesday blog. Rather than focus on my book and the research that went into it (the fun stuff!), I’d like to approach a topic that writers may have some experience with: self-publishing. Until about six months...
Out of the Ashes
Women Fight Back The Triangle Factory fire in 1911 was the deadliest workplace disaster in NYC before 9-11. It was significant not because 146 workers died, but because it instigated reform. At the time workplace safety was barely regulated and rarely thought about ....
A Death Not Pretty
Burn . . . or Crash One of the more gruesome aspects to my research was learning about “defenestration,” the act of throwing someone (or something) out the window. The term comes from two centuries-old incidents in Prague. The first in 1419 when seven town officials...
Dead But Not Gone
Identifying the Dead In February of 2011, a story appeared in the New York Times. With the hundredth anniversary of the Triangle fire a month away, eyes were focused on a stone monument in the Cemetery of the Evergreens on the border of Brooklyn and Queens. The...
No Escape
A Better Way to Die? The Asch Building which housed the Triangle Factory (top three floors) was said to be fireproof. The deadly fire on March 25 was not its first. A series of fires starting in 1902 destroyed the contents of the factory. Triangle owners Max Blanck...
The Triangle Murders – Forensics
Forensic science, often called forensics, is the application of science to the legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or a civil action. The word itself is derived from the Latin forensis, meaning “of or before the forum.” In Roman times, criminals would...
The “Fire”
Short but Deadly Burn Did you realize that the fire at the Triangle factory lasted only half an hour, from the initial spark to final burning embers? Near closing time, the fire erupted on the eighth floor in a bin of scrap materials and fabrics. A steady flow of wind...
Did You Know? From Time Exposure…
From TIME EXPOSURE: Did you know. . . ? . . . that many believe John Wilkes Booth was not the leader of the Lincoln assassination plot, and not just a zealot who acted on personal beliefs. Rather, he was a pawn in a larger conspiracy and was, perhaps, hired by an...
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