Edith Maxwell

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In this fun interview with mystery writer Edith Maxwell, publishing under the pen name ‘Maddie Day’, we talk about her historical mystery, A Case for the Ladies: A Dot and Amelia Mystery, which launched in March. In it, a young Amelia Earhart, who is living in Boston, taking flying lessons on the weekends, and working at an immigrant settlement house, helps solve the mystery of a series of murders involving immigrant women. Edith, who has published over 30 books, also shares her wisdom and experience as a mystery writer.Typically a traditionally published author, Edith went out on her own to bring this story to life, so let’s support her and buy (AND REVIEW) A Case for the Ladies!

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[00:00:00] Liz Booker: Hello and welcome. I’m Liz Booker, Literary Aviatrix, and I’m excited to talk to the author of a new book, A Case for the Ladies: A Dot and Amelia Mystery, writing under the pen name Maddie Day.

Intro: Fewer than 10 percent of pilots and aircraft mechanics are women. These are their stories of tenacity, adventure, and courage. Stories with the power to inspire, heal, and connect.Welcome to the Literary Aviatrix community, where we leverage the power of story to build and celebrate our community and inspire the next generation of aviation.Edith Maxwell, welcome. I’m so excited to talk with you about this book and to hear all about your writing and the collection of work that you have out there in the world. Can you give us a synopsis?[00:00:58] Edith Maxwell: It’s 1926 Boston. Amelia Earhart is working at a settlement house in Boston and living in a suburb. She meets Lady P. I. Dot Henderson, who is visiting her Aunt Etta, and Dot is in her mid-twenties. Amelia’s a little older. She’s a little cagey about her age, actually. And, They get to work on finding justice for a number of young immigrant women who are being attacked and sometimes murdered in Boston, 1926.That’s the gist of it.[00:01:38] Liz Booker: Very cool. And we would, the genre that we would call this is a cozy mystery, right?[00:01:44] Edith Maxwell: It’s a historical mystery, on the gentler side, but probably it probably wouldn’t be shelved as a cozy, exactly a traditional mystery, historical.[00:01:56] Liz Booker: Okay. Okay. You do write cozy mysteries? Do you not?[00:02:01] Edith Maxwell: I write contemporary cozy mysteries.[00:02:03] Liz Booker: Can you just tell us what that is exactly? For those of us who are not mystery experts, including myself.[00:02:09] Edith Maxwell: Absolutely. It’s, as with any traditional mystery, cozy mysteries are a subset. So in cozies, the, there is an amateur sleuth. So it’s not a person in general whose job it is to solve a crime.It’s not a police officer, an FBI agent, or a PI. And they tend to be community based and it’s a mystery, so it’s a puzzle. The puzzle needs to be solved. There’s a dead body, but you actually don’t see the violence that made that person dead.Who killed that person? And this protagonist has to have the, what we call in Capitals, the ‘Very Good Reason’ I’d like to investigate this.If you found a dead body on the street, you wouldn’t lean in and go, ooh, poison? Stab wound? You would, you’d like back away, throw up, and call 911, right? Like, none of us would do this, but we suspend disbelief.And but it’s really about the community, the protagonist, and the cast of core characters bringing justice to the community in the end, by the end of the book. In addition in cozies, there might be romance, but they close the bedroom door before it gets too exciting.And you might read, ‘she cursed’ or ‘he swore’, but you’re not going to read obscenities.[00:03:43] Liz Booker: That was a super helpful primer on the very, very distinct subgenre of cozy mysteries. But we are talking about a historical mystery here, which I’m excited to hear about. But before we get into the book and the details of the book, I’m so curious about you.What brought you to writing mystery?[00:04:03] Edith Maxwell: Wow. I grew up reading mysteries from my mother’s bookshelf. I wrote a lot of fiction as a child and then I left it behind for journalism and academic writing and eventually software technical writing. But I love reading mysteries and I like reading mysteries on the gentler end of the spectrum, like the ones I write.A long story of evolution, but basically I had been playing around with writing a novel, a mystery novel. And then I was writing some short stories and then I got laid off a full-time job in 2008. And I thought I have all this time. You can’t look for a job 8 hours a day.I’d better get back to that novel I started 14 years ago. And, anyway, I went from there. Yeah, I left my last day job in 2000 10 years, oh, 2013, I think it was. And, so I’m a full time writer. I write murder fiction full time.[00:05:11] Liz Booker: And when we go to your page on Amazon, I see so many books that are under this pen name Maddie Day.So first of all, why a pen name? And then second of all, like how many books have you published?[00:05:23] Edith Maxwell: My name from birth is Edith Maxwell. Okay. I had written several, four, three or four books in a local foods mysteries for Kensington Publishing. And I was proposing a new series, a new cozy series for them.And my editor at Kensington wanted it, but he wanted me to use a pen name. And I asked my agent, I said, why? You’re like, people are just starting to get to know Edith Maxwell. That was my first series. And he, my agent said, they probably want you to look like a new author in the bookstores, a new author on Amazon.So if somebody, because the sales were not spectacular on that first series, and if somebody didn’t really like those, then they’re not going to pick up a new series by you. So I just, I invented this name. It’s not the best name because the URL, in fact, wasn’t available, which I should have thought of. But That’s, she’s—Maddie’s very popular.She’s my paycheck.[00:06:21] Liz Booker: Congratulations. And how many books have you published under that name or period?[00:06:24] Edith Maxwell: Period, I think A Case for the Ladies is number 33. I think. I have a little tally sheet on my whiteboard here. I’m working on number 37 right now. I’m writing that.[00:06:42] Liz Booker: That is an inspiration when you can’t even remember how many books you’ve published.You’ve definitely made it as a writer. Congratulations.[00:06:50] Edith Maxwell: I mean, I write, I have contracts for three books a year.[00:06:54] Liz Booker: That’s amazing. Oh my gosh. I can’t wait to hear a whole lot more about that when we get more in depth into the writer’s discussion. And so what brought you to decide to include our heroine in our community, Amelia Earhart in your story this time around?[00:07:13] Edith Maxwell: I had created an alternate reality for both my grandmothers as lady PIs in 1920 Pasadena, California. They were very different women, tall, short, sophisticated, homey and I thought they’d be just, they’d be a great pair. They were, I had written a couple short stories. I’ve written the first novel with Dot and Ruth.And then I learned that, so I live in a town called Amesbury in the northeast corner of Massachusetts, and I learned that Amelia Earhart had taught English to factory workers in Amesbury. I think it was ‘25 or ‘26. And then I learned that she worked at a settlement house in Boston and she flew on the weekends.So this is befor—she’s not even 30. This is before she got famous, before she did her big, everything that made her much more well known. And my best friend lives in the same town where Amelia lived with her mother and her sister, Medford. And Jennifer and I took a walk, a pilgrimage up, way up the hill to Brook Street to Amelia’s house.And there’s a plaque, like, in the brick wall, in the stone wall in front of it. And I thought, obviously, I have to put her in a novel. I invented Dot’s Aunt Etta, who’s a Wellesley College professor in Boston, and she invites, and she’s a board member of the settlement house. She’s a fictional board member of the real settlement house where Amelia worked, and she invites, there’s a case of arson, and she invites Amelia, I mean Dot out east to work on this, and Dot meets Amelia, and they start working together to solve the arson, and that was a short story published in an anthology a couple years ago called Dark Corners.And then I thought I have to write the book. So over about four years, pretty much spanning the worst part of the pandemic and stuff, when I was between writing books for my, under contract, I started working on this book. And it’s beautiful. I had a lot of editing and revision and I’m just delighted that it’s finally out there.[00:09:32] Liz Booker: That’s so exciting. So I’m going to ask on behalf of my readers, because I know a lot of them ask this question. So is there a lot of flying in this book? Obviously, we’re, this is a different focus. So do we get to see Amelia fly?[00:09:48] Edith Maxwell: You do. You get to see her talking about flying and telling Dot she’s going down to the airfield in Quincy, which is south of Boston, where she flew out of. And then I don’t write in Amelia’s point of view. Like, I don’t write from out of her head. I just, she’s just way too well known. I mean, there’s a lot about her, and there’s a lot of dialogue with her. I studied her as much as I could during that era. And I thought, and I already had written that Dot is terrified of flying, and she thinks it’s crazy what Amelia’s doing.And Amelia keeps trying to convince her how brilliant it is. So I have a scene where they were going to take this friend of theirs, who’s a reporter, Jeanette, Amelia was going to take her up flying because she wanted to write a story about Amelia. And when they go and pick up Jeanette at the train station, she’s got a terrible case of vertigo.And she says, I can’t go up. But I just heard about this action, this smuggling action, and these looking at these bad guys that they’re trying to catch down by the docks in Boston. She said, Dot, here’s my camera. You have to go up. And Dot’s going, ah! Like, freaking out. So she goes up with Amelia, they fly, they take, she takes the pictures, they get shot at.  [00:11:12] Liz Booker: That’s so great.[00:11:14] Edith Maxwell: I didn’t go up in a small antique plane myself. I’m a little bit, I mean, I’m Dot’s granddaughter in real life and I just seemed a little bit, but I have a really good friend who’s also a writer who lives nearby. She has her small plane pilot license. She used to fly to work. She flew from the coast up here to an air force base where she worked in the Boston suburb.So she knows all about how the wings go and what they’d be able to see and how it turns and stuff that I have had no idea about and I had her check a few scenes, Janet. So Janet Johnson. So I hope I got it right. But we do go up flying with Amelia.[00:12:02] Liz Booker: Oh, that’s so great. And so talk a little bit about the research and like the elements of real history about Amelia that you were able to incorporate in this story.You’ve already mentioned a couple of them, but let’s go a little more in depth.[00:12:18] Edith Maxwell: I mean, I read what’s it called? East to the Dawn by Susan Butler biography. I mean, I was focusing on the early years, but I read about her childhood. She and her sister used to go out and shoot rabbits, so she knows how to shoot a gun.I learned that she didn’t drink alcohol. She was a teetotaler and that she had contracted the 1919 flu when she was working at a hospital where her sister was working in Toronto and ever after had really bad sinusitis, problems with her sinuses. So I just I wove in all the bits, the real bits and then the house in Medford and her car, that Goldbug, that Kissel.  Gorgeous speedster that’s a convertible and it has bright yellow and it has these outrigger seats outside the car for, to carry two extra passengers. Yes. That’s a big part. And the the Kinner aircraft that she flew at the time.I really tried to bring in all the bits I could, that I learned about her. It has to be in the service of the story.And she and Dot they both loved wearing trousers and they both like driving fast and there were bits of that I could make her have in common with my protagonist.[00:13:52] Liz Booker: The thing that struck me as soon as I read the blurb for it was that just thinking about, so I haven’t spent a lot of time in Amelia’s history yet. I definitely plan to through this project, but the little bits that I have gleaned along the way from reading other books, and then also my own experience of it just resonated.It rang true to me that she would be involved in something like this in caring for this humanitarian crisis that is happening in Boston, that there are immigrant women being killed. Like, that definitely rings true to what I know about her. A couple of years ago, I think I mentioned in an email, I was invited to speak on behalf of our local 99s chapter, the Women and Pilots Association chapter at Zonta International.And I knew nothing about Zonta until I had that opportunity to understand what their dedication to human rights and women’s rights and gender equality is. And then to realize that Amelia had been a lifelong supporter of them as well. There were lots of things that just from the premise of the book rang true to me and made sense.Yeah.[00:15:06] Edith Maxwell: Good. I mean, I did. I also learned that she kept this scrapbook from early on of articles and pieces that she saw about strong women, scientists and doctors and lawyers and things like that. People, women doing interesting work and she would talk to girls about it. Oh, and I, and also of course, in the book is that at the settlement house, she coached the Chinese girls basketball team.I learned, I went, okay, that’s going in. And one of her real,[00:15:35] Liz Booker: Wow.[00:15:36] Edith Maxwell: They were sixth graders. And she coached that basketball team at the settlement house. Then I had to bring in one of the girls on the team and she plays a part and her little brother gets attacked and like this, different things like that.[00:15:50] Liz Booker: Oh, how fun. Yeah. You reached out to me hoping to send me an advanced reader copy and I, as politely as I could, said I don’t think that I can meet the timeline for this and do you justice, and I thought I was going to be very helpful and offer that up to the book club in the Facebook group and I was a delighted and blown away by the response that you got there.I was like, oh, I didn’t know we had so many cozy, or so many mystery fans now that I know it’s not a cozy mystery. Not surprised that there are fans of Amelia in there. But yeah, so you were like, wait a minute. I only have one advanced reader copy. Our number one, appropriately, our number one book club member, Becky Condon was able to scoop that up, but because I got everybody else’s hopes up. I just want to do a thing really quickly. So I’ve added all of the names of the other people who responded to the post saying they really want to read that. And I would like to make it up to them for getting their hopes up about it by having a little drawing here.I’m just going to draw a name. And what we’re going to do is we’re going to send that person a signed copy of the published book. So I’m just reaching in here and I have a name. Let’s see who it is. There are 10 names in this jar, which was like, oh my gosh, everybody. All right.Tara Kendall is the winner. So we’ll get her info and send her a signed copy. Sorry about that, ladies, but all good for you because obviously you have a bunch of people ready to buy and read this book.  [00:17:36] Edith Maxwell: That’s delightful. I don’t have the box of books yet, but it’s supposed to be here by next Tuesday. So I’ll get that out as soon as I can.[00:17:42] Liz Booker: That is great. That’s awesome. So let’s talk a little bit about your, a little more about your writing career. So you have written so many mysteries and, you mentioned, that you had this time off from being furloughed or whatever, from your main job. So like how did that flow for you?Did you write one book and find an agent? What resources did you use to learn to write? Tell us about that journey.[00:18:15] Edith Maxwell: In the years before that, so it was actually in the mid-nineties that I started to write a novel and a mystery. And when my youngest son went off to kindergarten.Okay. And he’s now 35. That’s how long ago it was. I had a small organic farm at the time and I didn’t finish the book before farming season started up again. And then I got into technical writing. I went to work in the software industry, and I also had an unhappy marriage. So that was difficult. And I was, had these two boys in elementary school.And so I couldn’t figure out how to finish that novel in those tiny bits of time I might’ve had. But I started writing short stories and then I learned about Sisters in Crime, which is an international advocacy organization for female crime fiction writers, hugely supportive and just, I wouldn’t be published if it weren’t for Sisters in Crime.And we have a really active New England chapter. So I was writing short stories and studying the craft. And then that led up to getting laid off. So I did write. One book, took me about a year of Fridays, because I, when I got another job, I didn’t work on Fridays, and it wasn’t, it was four fifths time, so that was writing Friday, and then I revised it for about a year, then I started looking for an agent, and that book, I never did find an agent, but I found a small press.But during that time, when I was looking for a publisher, a New York agent came looking for authors, came to our Sisters in Crime New England chapter and said, I’m looking to work with some authors on Cozy Mystery Proposals. And so I was ready for that. I’d studied how to write a query letter.I had everything in place. I had published short stories. I had completed manuscripts. So I wrote him an email and he called me a couple days later. We got a contract for three books from Kensington in a in a couple weeks.[00:20:24] Liz Booker: Oh, that’s great.[00:20:25] Edith Maxwell: So I was it wasn’t totally out of the blue because I was ready for that kind of luck.I mean, it was complete luck. That’s not usually how people get agents. Yeah. And he’s still my agent.[00:20:36] Liz Booker: That’s so great. Yeah. And you mentioned earlier that you were writing this one in the crevices between those that you were under contract for. So how does that work? Did you write proposals for these other books that were that are under contract that are unwritten yet?Like, is that how it works? Or do you just pitch an idea?[00:20:54] Edith Maxwell: In the cozy field you tend to write a proposal for three books. Like you write a detailed synopsis for the first one and then you give a little hint about what the second and third books will be. And then once I, my editor at Kensington started knowing me, sometimes I don’t have to propose the next three.He’ll just say, you want to write three more books, right? And then my newest series is the C. Barton Mysteries, Murder Uncorked, came out in the fall. And he came, my editor said, through my agent, said, we’d like you to write a series, a new series set on the West Coast. And I happen to be a fourth generation Californian on my mother’s side.And I said, finally I can write a book set in my home state. Excellent. So but for cozies sometimes you don’t even have the first book written when you get the contract.[00:21:52] Liz Booker: Okay. Okay. And so you’ve been doing this for a while now. How do the publishers support you in book promotion?I mean, obviously you’re working pretty hard to promote your own stuff. I can see you out there. So what’s the, what do you get out of the publishers these days for promotion?[00:22:14] Edith Maxwell: Kensington is pretty supportive. More as I’ve gone along because I’m, I sell pretty well. I’m not yet at the point where they’re sending me on book tour on their dime, but they do a lot.There’s a, we have a really good publicist in, who takes care of my books. But the Dot and Amelia book, A Case for the Ladies I’m putting that out independently. So yes, I’m doing all the work.[00:22:49] Liz Booker: Oh, see, that’s interesting to hear. So you have an agent, you’ve published multiple books traditionally.And this one you’re doing entirely on your own?[00:22:59] Edith Maxwell: I am my editor at Kensington. Declined.[00:23:03] Liz Booker: Oh,[00:23:03] Edith Maxwell: he’s, we were just going to be putting out Murder Uncorked and he said we want to focus on that. They do publish historical mysteries, and he, I hope he’ll regret his decision.[00:23:16] Liz Booker: Yeah, we will help you to the best of our ability to make him regret that.[00:23:21] Edith Maxwell: So this one, I am doing all of it, but I’m used to that because in general, Midlist authors like myself, you do pretty much most of the promotion. I mean, Kensington will put an ad in a, like a puzzle magazine for my cozies or the, I don’t know, like a teatime magazine. Right. Some of my books have recipes in them, and it’s the audience that might like a cozy mystery with recipes.[00:23:51] Liz Booker: I think it’s fabulous that you will also be educating that audience on some more in-depth Amelia history than most people get to hear.[00:24:03] Edith Maxwell: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, most people, they don’t, I didn’t know anything about her before she, before like the thirties, she started doing her big flights and everything.[00:24:13] Liz Booker: Yeah. Those people don’t know that any other female aviators exist ever.[00:24:20] Edith Maxwell: Oh Fly girls and yeah. Right. Yeah. Even in that era. I mean, she, I have a scene where she’s talking about that with Dot and Dot said how many women pilots are there? And Amelia says, maybe 10.[00:24:39] Liz Booker: Yeah. Yeah. It happens pretty quickly because it’s in 1929 that she and Louise Thaden get together and start the 99s. So yeah, that’s so cool. Edith, this is so great.Tell me like, how do you approach your work on a daily basis? Are you up and writing every day? What do you do?[00:25:00] Edith Maxwell: Yeah I’m naturally an early riser, so I’m usually up by 5:30. If I sleep past six, it’s sleeping in for me. And I need an hour or so on the internet to read blogs and see what, what’s happening in the world. And then by seven I start working every morning, sometimes, often not Sunday. I check in, there’s a group, ramona’s Sprint Club. Ramona de Feliz Long was a fabulous author of fiction short stories memoir, and she was an independent editor, and she was like everybody’s cheerleader, and she would start this thread every morning, the Sprint Thread, and you check in, and you maybe say what you’re working on.So that’s my first writing hour is checking in at, and unfortunately, very sadly Ramona died three years ago, but a friend of hers has taken over this and a whole bunch of us check in from all over the world.[00:26:15] Liz Booker: Is that something that anybody can access? Anybody can access it. It’s Ramona’s Sprint Club. Okay, and that’s on Facebook? Is that on Facebook?[00:26:18] Edith Maxwell: It’s a private group and you just have to ask to belong.[00:26:19] Liz Booker: Okay. Oh, that’s so great. Yeah, I’m going to check that out. Totally.[00:26:23] Edith Maxwell: Give my name because they’ll know you’re not a troll or whatever.So that gives my, I work all morning usually. I go for a fast walk at around 11, maybe have lunch, and then do other author businessy stuff, write blog posts do other things in the afternoons.[00:26:44] Liz Booker: That’s so great.[00:26:45] Edith Maxwell: Yeah.[00:26:46] Liz Booker: So what advice do you have for anyone who is trying to figure out their author journey?Like they’re just getting started.[00:26:53] Edith Maxwell: Yeah. Write the best book you can write.Like. You don’t have, there’s no hard rules. You don’t have to write every day if that doesn’t work for you. When I was a technical writer, I was writing every day. I was in front of a computer screen all day and I couldn’t write fiction at night.And I was already leaving the house at 5 30 to avoid traffic, so I couldn’t, that wasn’t feasible for my life at the time. Now it is, and it works for me to write every day because it keeps the story kind of alive and moving forward. But carve out whatever time you can carve out, carve it out.Put it on your calendar. Make it sacred writing time. And the classic, right? Butt in the chair, fingers on the keyboard. I mean, you can’t fix a book you haven’t written. You can’t sell a book you haven’t polished. And then. Find your people. So I found Sisters in Crime. If you write science fiction, if you write historical, if you write nonfiction, memoir, there are groups.And there are lots of online groups. Find your people and learn from them and ask them questions and network. That’s really important. That’s my main advice.[00:28:10] Liz Booker: We have another author in our group her name is Julie Holmes, and she wrote Murder in Plane Sight, P-L-A-N-E. She was an aircraft mechanic, which is a great perspective to have. So her. That mystery novel definitely includes, that’s an aviation environment from a mechanic’s perspective. And I know that Sisters in Crime really helped her. She’s out on the West Coast. So where can we, so where can we find you and your book and how can we help you get the best start to this book since you’re all on your own?[00:28:49] Edith Maxwell: Thank you. I’m at edithmaxwell.com, which also includes all of Maddie’s books. And people can sign up for my newsletter on the front page of my website. I have a Maddie Day slash Edith Maxwell Facebook author page that I love for people to stop by and like it and follow it and comment.Particularly comment. I’m a member of the Wicked Authors. Wickedauthors. com. We’re a blog of six New England mystery authors and we’re on there every day of—every weekday—and we have guests and on Wednesdays we have Wicked Wednesday where we all chime in on the same topic. And I’m also a blogger at Mystery Lover’s Kitchen and that’s mystery authors who love cooking.And some of—most of us have recipes in our books, but we, there’s an original recipe every day of the month, and we have guests, and that’s really fun. I’m on the second and fourth Fridays, and then the first Sunday of the month we chat around the kitchen table, each on the same topic. And we always welcome guests and they’re often there’s giveaways of books and stuff[00:30:05] Liz Booker: Oh, it sounds like a fabulous community It sounds like so what I was going to talk about earlier was the community that we have of Aviatrix Writers.So in addition to the aviatrix book club facebook group, we have an aviatrix writers group of 170 members, which is great. So you’ll have to join us there. Please and everybody would love to welcome you into the community. And that’s for any woman writing about or whose books feature women in aviation. So whether it’s fiction, nonfiction, historical, contemporary, all of the things and we’re there to support each other.And that’s part of like what I’m doing here is trying to put out content that is relevant and helpful, not reinvent all of the content that’s out there, but things that are helpful to people in our community, because we have a lot of people who are pilots first or in aviation industry first, and then they come to writing later, just like you did.And so we want to give them the tools and the roadmap to be successful. So thank you so much for sharing your wisdom. I appreciate it.[00:31:12] Edith Maxwell: That’s awesome. I’ll be in touch with you also offline because we I’m the wrangler for the Wicked Authors blog on, in May, which means I have to make sure all the empty spots in our calendar are filled.And we have a couple, we have a genre hopping regular feature. We also have an ask the expert. Regular feature. So I’m going to hit you up.[00:31:36] Liz Booker: Wonderful. I would love it. And we love more exposure to if somebody likes reading your book, then come on over to my website. Cause we have over 600 books that feature women in aviation in all genres for all ages.And like I said, historical and contemporary. If you like to read, you will find a book that you like on my website, to include yours now.[00:31:59] Edith Maxwell: Yeah. I’m so excited that I found you. I can’t remember where I saw the reference, but it was a few months ago and I thought, yeah. I have to contact this person, like this is, yeah.[00:32:14] Liz Booker: Oh, I’m so glad you did, and I’m so glad the brand is out there for people like you to find. That’s so great.[00:32:19] Edith Maxwell: Absolutely.[00:32:20] Liz Booker: Will we get to see more of Amelia in future books?[00:32:21] Edith Maxwell: That’s a good question. I don’t know. I’m not sure. I have, I’m not currently writing another one with her, but I think there may be demand for that.[00:32:40] Liz Booker: If you need any help either thinking about ideas for her, or thinking about other fun characters from our history. Just let me know, you know where to find me. Or you can post in the book club. I guarantee after seeing the response to this book, I’m, I guarantee people will be like, oh, I have lots of ideas to help you, to inspire you.[00:33:02] Edith Maxwell: Thank you.[00:33:04] Liz Booker: Edith, thank you so much for bringing your prolific authorship to the topic of our collective history by writing and including Amelia Earhart in your story and a part of her that we wouldn’t normally see in most books. Thank you so much.[00:33:23] Edith Maxwell: Yeah, you’re welcome.Thank you so much for inviting me over. Absolutely. I love that I’ve discovered you and the book club and now the writing group. That’s fabulous.[00:33:32] Liz Booker: Yeah, you’re in the club now.[00:33:34] Edith Maxwell: Great. Awesome. Thank you.[00:33:37] Liz Booker: Thanks so much for listening. Check out the Literary Aviatrix website for this and hundreds of other books featuring women in aviation in all genres for all ages.And while you’re there, sign up for the Literary Aviatrix newsletter to stay up to date on all of the Aviatrix book news. If you enjoyed this interview on YouTube or podcast, please like, subscribe, and drop a review if the option is available. Just like book reviews, podcast reviews help our stories reach a broader audience.I’d like to thank Michael Wildes of Massif and Krew for his help producing this interview and his support of all things Literary Aviatrix. Blue skies and happy reading.