Paula Paul's Author Page

Attitudes toward birth control have historically been contentious. I learned that in the course of my research for writing a romance novel entitled SWEET IVY’S GOLD.

The character in that book, a married woman in America in the 1880s, used a primitive form of birth control, knowing she and her husband could be (more…)

The recent controversy about a nonprofit group that fights breast cancer cutting off and then restoring funding to another group that provides breast cancer screening brought back memories of my own battle with breast cancer.
I don’t intend to take a stand one way or the other in this blog about either group’ (more…)

When my character Alexandra Gladstone would have been growing up, too much education for females was frowned upon. It was thought a woman or girl was “unfeminine” if she was overly educated.
While girls from the middle class, as Alexandra would have been, could be educated at home and perhaps later sent away to (more…)

The advent and phenomenal growth of e-books has, as you might expect, caused an upheaval for libraries. The rules for how we are to live with e-books in general are not yet completely written, and how libraries are going to deal with them is one of the thorniest issues.
It’s not that libraries (more…)