Laura Kamoie - My Dear Hamilton

Laura Kamoie hit No 1 in the Amazon best seller charts with her latest historical novel My Dear Hamilton on the week we talked – evidence of the success she and co-author Stephanie Dray are enjoying with their novel about Eliza Hamilton, wife of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in today’s Binge Reading episode, Laura talks of the joy she gets in unearthing women’s stories from obscurity and her other career - writing raunchy romance. And we’ve got three paper back copies of My Dear Hamilton to give away as a President’s Day special. Wife, warrior and widow, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton was forced to assume all these roles in her quest for a more perfect union . . . Offer closes February 29, 2020. Enter HERE or the Binge Reading Facebook page. Six things you’ll learn from this Joys of Binge Reading episode: How Laura came to rescuing Founding Mothers from obscurityThe extraordinary brain trauma which began it allHer 'other life' as romance writer Laura KayeThe lure of the supernatural A productive partnership with co-author Stephanie DrayThe fallibility of historic icons (like Thomas Jefferson) Where to find Laura Kamoie/ Laura Kaye:  Website:  https://www.laurakamoie.com/ or https://laurakayeauthor.com/ Facebook: @laurakamoieauthor OR @LauraKayeWrites  Twitter:  @laurakayeauthor Pinterest: laurakayeauthor.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurakayeauthor/ What follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to important mentions. Jenny Wheeler: But now here's Laura. Hello there, Laura, and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us. Laura Kamoie: Hi. Thank you. I'm very pleased to be here and excited to chat with you. Laura Kamoie - best-selling author of early America - and writing romance as Laura Kaye Jenny Wheeler: Thank you. Look, you're a best selling author in two very different genres, urban romance and historical fiction. We're going to be mainly focusing on the historical fiction today, but which came first?  The romance or the history? Laura Kamoie:  Well, there are two ways to answer that question.  I have been interested in history since I was a teenager, and so I actually went to university and graduate school for history and have a PhD in history and was a professor at the university when I started writing. That's part of the reason why, when I did begin writing fiction, I. wrote romance first, because history was my day job. So I was writing romance fiction for several years while I was still working full time as a university historian.  At one point there came a time where I really just finally needed to make a choice between the two because my romance career had taken off. After I retired from teaching, that was when I decided that I also wanted to try writing historical fiction because history had been such a big part of my life that I didn't really want to leave that behind.  Historical fiction gave me a way of keeping a foot in that world. America's First Daughter - the hidden story of Patsy Jefferson, President's daughter, revealed.... Jenny Wheeler:  Sure, and with the fiction, you obviously had a very good career as a professor.  What was the spark that made you feel, I still want something else?