Nobody Gets Killed

"Nobody Gets Killed" is in the March/April 2018 issue of my favorite publication, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.  That's three issues in a row, which makes me feel like Edward D. Hoch's dumb kid brother.

When Women Didn't Count at the FDLP Academy

In October I spoke about my book at the Federal Depository Library conference, sponsored by the U.S. Government Publishing Office.  They asked if I would like to do a webinar for their series the FDLP Academy.  I was honored to comply but I didn't want to repeat myself so I focused on the research process that went into making the book.  Figured that would be of more interest to govdoc librarians.  Anyway, I did it live and it is now available for anyone to watch.

Me being interviewed

One reason for attending Bouchercon is to meet mystery writers.  To network, as they say.  In Toronto I met Janet Irvin and she offered to interview me for her site.  And here it is.  Thanks, Janet!

When Women Didn't Count comes to Western Washington University

As part of the Western Libraries Reading Program I will be reading from my book at 4 PM, Wednesday February 21 in the Main Readng Room (i.e. Harry Potter Room) at Wilson Library.  Love to see you there.

DttP does When Women Didn't Count

DttP: Documents to the People is the newsletter of GODORT, the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association.  In the Inter 2018 issue Sonnet Ireland wrote a very nice review of my new book.  Here is part of it. 

"How many women were the head of their households in 1930?  How man were single mothers in 1890? Librarians have a desire to answer every question that comes their way, but some questions have no accurate answers.  This is especially true of government statistics on women, as Lopresti demonstrates beautifully...   His treatise on the subject is enlightening, delving into the inconsistencies in how women were considered (or ignored) across different government surveys.  Most infuriating are the times when results were labelled as unreliable or flat-out wrong because the answers did not meet expectations.... This books is an important work that sheds light on the sexism that permeates our statistics, even as recently as the last decade."