by Peggy Joque Williams | Feb 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
[Note: This post contains affiliate links. Peggy may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.] Lauren Goff’s Matrix: a Novel was recently recommended to me by a friend who knew I enjoyed reading—and writing—historical fiction. No, this book has...
by Peggy Joque Williams | Jan 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Hello! And welcome to the revival of Musings of a MadCityWriter. I started this blog some years ago and took a hiatus to delve into genealogy and work on my historical novel, Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles (more on that in another post). The idea for the book...
by Peggy Joque Williams | Oct 17, 2022 | Recipes for Clueless Cooks
This weekend I had a huge butternut squash sitting on my counter complaining that it was going to waste. It had been given to me by a good friend who plucked it straight from her garden as I looked on. When she’d asked if I’d like it, I was too embarrassed to...
by Peggy Joque Williams | Oct 17, 2022 | Fun Stuff, Wisconsin Pride
Things that go bump in the night. A cold draft where there shouldn’t be one. A hazy image of a young man perhaps in a Civil War uniform. When I was a teenager, one of my best friends claimed a ghost inhabited her house. I was never quite sure. But she believed it...
by Peggy Joque Williams | Oct 15, 2022 | Awesome Women Doing Awesome Stuff, Books and Authors
Imagine writing your first novel when you are only eleven years old. Image publishing your third before you’re even half way through high school. That’s what seventeen year old Madelyn Spindler did. Madelyn teamed up with her mom, Rebecca Williams...
