As a former professional actress, I'm fascinated by the "roles" women are taught to play in our everyday lives - "good girl," "girlfriend," "wife," "mother," "caretaker," "homemaker," - and the fact that all women are excellent actresses.
Through (mostly) funny personal stories about my time in Hollywood and subsequent recovery journey for co-dependency & people pleasing, I tell the truth about who women are when the curtain falls and the lights dim.
Because the truth is: all of us are exhausted trying to fit the role of "perfect woman," because, as we're finally admitting: there is no such thing.
During my semester abroad in Florence Italy in 2008, I was accidentally put in a class called "the history of Witchcraft" and it changed everything...
I learned that one of the first-known full scale witch hunts took place in Northern Italy during the Renaissance period, and that that particular witch hunt was THE MOMENT in history that "witches" became synonymous with "women".
My heavily-researched historical fiction novel "Ember Days" follows Giovanna, the daughter of the town healer and midwife, as she struggles to prove her family's innocence in the face of disgraced Catholic inquisitor Heinrich Kramer's witch hunt in Mirandola Italy in 1486.
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