Blog Tour: Decorum and Guest Post by Kaaren Christopherson- Strong Women: Good Girls, Bad Girls, and Girls in Search of Themselves
Today's guest writer is Kaaren Christopherson. She is the author of Decorum , a novel about Gilded Age New York. In this essay, Ms. Christopherson discusses the various types of women characters that appear in her book and the challenges she encountered while writing them. I hope this guest post gives you some insight into her novel, Decorum . Thank you, Ms. Christopherson. Strong Women: Good Girls, Bad Girls, and Girls in Search of Themselves By Kaaren Christopherson, author of Decorum One of the joys of writing Decorum —a novel about deception, love, bigamy, and murder in Gilded Age New York—was the great variety of women who presented themselves as characters, all jockeying for positions of advantage in their particular plot situations. Good girls, bad girls, you name it, Decorum has them. As an author, each type of woman presented her own writing challenges. The Good Girls Let’s start with the most challen...