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Ginny Kubitz Moyer is an author of historical fiction. Her novel A Golden Life was named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2024, and her debut novel The Seeing Garden won Silver in the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards for historical fiction. She has also written several books on women's spirituality. Ginny lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she gardens, walks her rescue dog, and constantly searches for more bookshelf space. ...more

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Ginny Kubitz Moyer A Golden Life started back in 2018, when I had the idea of writing about a secretary and her boss on a roadtrip. I love stories about journeys both li…moreA Golden Life started back in 2018, when I had the idea of writing about a secretary and her boss on a roadtrip. I love stories about journeys both literal and figurative, and so it was a tantalizing idea. Right around this time, my younger son, then in fourth grade, was doing a school project about the history of Hollywood. I had a blast helping him with the research (we have some family ties to old Hollywood, which made it extra-fun), and in the process, it occurred to me that my secretary could be a secretary to a producer in a movie studio. There was an energy behind that idea that I couldn't wait to explore.

So I kept on reading about Hollywood in the 1930s. I realized that the roadtrip could be about saving a movie project that the studio desperately wanted … and that it would be wonderfully complicated if the project were a biopic about a legendary stage actress whom everyone had assumed was dead, but who was very much alive and who hated the idea of the movie. I absolutely loved the dramatic possibilities of that. It took about a year to write the book (finishing right before the pandemic; what timing!) and then the book went on its publication journey. I’m thrilled to have it out in the world. I think it shows that the most random things—like your kid’s social studies project—can be the catalyst for unexpected creative journeys.(less)
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The Seeing Garden: A Novel

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A Golden Life

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I'd do 3.5 if I could. This was fascinating as a social history, and it is certainly well-written. I struggled to like or even connect with the characters, though, and for me it's pretty hard to love a book if I don't have even one character I'm root ...more
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The concept of this book was intriguing, and it was a very well-written book. But -- be warned -- it kind of tainted my beautiful little Austen fantasy-world. Baker's story plunges us into the underbelly of the Regency period, including some flashbac ...more
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