Tending the Hearth is a public notebook on early America, historical research, and the making of deeply researched historical fiction.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 61 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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Announcing our Autumn Book Club Book
Thank you to everyone who voted on our poll a couple weeks ago to choose which historical fiction book we’ll be reading this fall! The people have spoken…we’ll be reading The Rowans by Beverly Cooper Pierce, which you can get as an ebook, p...
A Mini Syllabus | Inside the 18th Century New England Household
A Keeping Room Independent Study
September has always felt like a blank slate for me. A fresh start. A reset. Not to try to do “better”, but to release all the buildup of spring and summer and begin anew. In the past, that new beginning of...
The Seasonal Reading Room
We have rooms within rooms here at Tending the Hearth. The Keeping Room is the paid tier of the Tending the Hearth Substack. It’s where I share about the process behind my debut historical fiction novel. It’s also where I share about the re...
Reading Like a Historical Fiction Writer: The Secret Keeper
What Kate Morton taught me about dual timelines, hidden histories, and the architecture of a mystery
Warning: This essay does contain spoilers.
Why I started researching for fun
It was 6am on a Tuesday in the summer of 2014 and I was on a train from Irvine, California to downtown LA, just like every other week day. I had a job working at a mediation & arbitration firm and it was the first truly stable “grown up” jo...
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Writer & independent researcher. My work explores beauty, history, seasonality, and the life of study—seeking to make the past, and the deeper rhythms it holds, feel vivid, meaningful, and alive in the present.
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