Paula Paul

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Extraordinary Stories That Touch The Heart And Challenge The Mind

What Happens When Women Stay In Their Place?

February 21, 2012

Tags: birth control, contraception, women, Comstock Law, blue stockings, condoms

Sweet Ivy's Gold
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…)

Selected Works

historical fiction
The story of Catherine the Great's rise to power
YA Fiction
A young wizard faces bullying
Literary Novel
A young widow falls in love with a minister who is married.
Paula Paul's first literary novel. One third of the royalties go to cancer research
Historical Fiction
The story of Charlemagne's love for the nun, Amelia of the Ardennes
Historical Novels
A deep look at a courageous heroine. Harriet Klausner
Mystery
"A lively mixture of murder and love." Tony Hillerman
"Lively. . ." Tony Hillerman
"Without a dull moment. Don't miss it!"--Tony Hillerman
Hillary and Jane find a dead body in the old house they're decorating
Jane and Hillary are hired to plan a party for a long dead member of the eccentric Bean family and find themselve trapped in a house in the Alabama backwoods.
A corpse in a vault of Cotes du Rhone just about ruins Jane and Hillary's vacation in the south of France.

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