My twenty books, written over thirty-five years
Recently, I told someone to check out my blog to see the books I have authored. After the conversation ended, I realized that I shortchanged myself. This blog, ruthannelatta.blogspot.com doesn't include everything. Some of my earlier books were listed on my old blog, ruthlattabooks.blogspot.com In 2013, I started publishing Canadian historical novels of particular interest to women, beginning with The Songcatcher and Me , a young adult novel inspired by the life of Canadian folklorist and folk song collector Edith Fowke, whom I met briefly in the 1980s. In 2016, came Grace and the Secret Vault , another young adult novel, based on the childhood experiences of Grace Woodsworth during the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. I followed that with Grace in Love , 2018) a novel for grown-ups, about Grace Woodsworth finding her life's work and her life partner after some trial and error in Paris and in Ottawa. Next, in 2019, just before the pandemic struck, came