Lilli de Jong was reviewed in over a hundred publications, including Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, Library Journal, The Millions, Shelf Awareness, and HuffPost.

I did over 200 appearances, including at these places:

Festivals: Baltimore Book Festival, Colingswood Book Festival, History Book Fair, Historical Society Novel Conference, Katz JCC Festival, Salem Literary Festival, Virginia Festival of the Book

Sites and Groups: Alice Paul Institute, American Association of University Women, Germantown Friends School Free Library, Germantown Historical Society, Hadassah, Haverford College, Princeton Public Library, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia History Museum

Bookstores: the Philadelphia area’s Capricorn Books, Doylestown Bookshop, Hockessin Bookshelf, Inkwood Books, Main Point Books, Narberth Bookshop, Newtown Bookshop, Open Book Bookstore, and Wellington Square Bookshop. Others included Bethany Beach Books (DE), Broadside Bookshop (MA), Shakespeare & Co. (NYC), and Watchung Booksellers (NJ).

Selected Fiction

—Lilli de Jong, the fictional diary of an unwed Quaker mother in 1883 Philadelphia, was published in hardcover by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday in 2017 and released in audio book, e-book, large print, and paperback.

—Writers Digest published my spoof review of The Scarlet Letter. “Instructions for Failure” was nominated by Switchback for a Pushcart Prize in 2013. “For Objects Do Sustain” was nominated in 2014 by the Green Hills Literary Lantern. “The Reason I’m Here” appeared in the winter 2013 issue of The Tulane Review.

Selected Nonfiction

—“What Makes a Story ‘Big’ or ‘Small’?” in Signature Reads. (Read on blog here.)

—“7 Works of Historical Fiction That Changed Me,” on Knopf Doubleday Reading Group Center.

—“Stories Have Made Me Who I Am,” on Read Her Like an Open Book.

—“The Power of a Diary,” on Read Her Like an Open Book.

—“In storytelling, finding joy and understanding,” Sunday Commentary section, in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

—Essay on how sensory data makes readers care, in Signature: Making Well-Read Sense of the World (see text here).

—“In the Name of Fairness, Don’t Erase Women’s History,” in the Philadelphia Inquirer (see text here).

—“A Feminist’s Daughter Finds Love in the Kitchen,” in the New York Times.

Documentary Films

—Script co-writer and team member for “Promise for a Better City (1944-1964).” Episode 3 in the series Philadelphia: The Great Experiment. Aired on 6ABC.

—Script editor and team member for “Fever: 1793.” Episode 2 in the series Philadelphia: The Great Experiment. Aired on 6ABC. Winner of three Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards.

—Interviewer and consultant for series on Philadelphia women’s history.