A great week, folks. I’m celebrating! Betty Gillies WAFS Pilot: The Days and Flights of a World War II Squadron Leader has earned two Finalist Awards in the Colorado Authors League (CAL) competition for books published in 2020. The two categories are: “Non-Fiction: Biography, Memoir” and “Fiction/Non-Fiction: Young Adult. Final award winners will be announced…
Betty Gillies WAFS Pilot officially launched on Oct 15, 2020. Watch the launch party, featuring some wonderful stories about Betty by members of her family. From Sarah: I can’t believe it has been a week since we did this! To all my friends out there, PLEASE WATCH!!! And THANK YOU for reading my blog!!!
Tune into the Moments with Marianne Show on Saturday, February 8th at 8pm EST/5pm PST for my interview about my #book, Nancy Love: WASP Pilot. Heard on iHeartRadio! Click here to Listen LIVE http://tinyurl.com/iHeartRadioMwM OR download the Moments with Marianne show app on iTunes & Google Play!
Two weeks ago in this blog, I talked about my biography, Finding Dorothy Scott: Letters of a WASP Pilot,winner of the 2016 Sarton Women’s Book Award from Story Circle Network. Dorothy’s story would be my topic when I spoke April 11that Literary Lubbock, sponsored by Texas Tech University Press. TTUP published Dorothy’s incredible story. Like…
Minnesota’s Twin Cities were NOT the frozen north that I expected when I booked my flight for March 26. “Should I wear my boots?” I asked my friend, Chase, who picked me up at the airport and with whom I stayed the first night. She assured me that I didn’t need them. I was in…
Dorothy Scott earns her wings and flies — this is what she loves. Her country is at war. She joins the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and flies military aircraft for her country. She dies in a fiery crash. She is 23. By the time the war is over, few will remember her. Her story…
Women In Aviation conference, Long Beach, California, Wednesday, March 13: — While Denver was in the clutches of a blizzard, the four Rickmans, in full sunshine, rode a free downtown Long Beach shuttle to the Aquarium of the Pacific. This was attraction number one! Grandson Daniel is a shark enthusiast. Petting live sharks was THE…
Denver was in the bullseye of a blizzard predicted to hit the eastern slope of Colorado Wednesday morning, March 13. Midnight, Monday night, I was on the phone with Southwest Airlines. My daughter-in-law, two grandkids and I were booked to fly out of Denver at noon, Wednesday. We were on our way to attend the…
If you didn’t see my first blog post, let me introduce myself. I’m Sarah Byrn Rickman, a veteran journalist turned author. I worked for The Detroit News before I had kids and then as the editor of two community papers after both boys were in school: The Anthony Wayne Standard (a small paper in suburban…
At 13, I discovered Amelia Earhart. I fell in love with airplanes and the whole idea of women in flight. That day, I began a journey that, 51 years later, led to publication of my first book — The Originals. Our ninth grade English textbook contained biographies of famous Americans. Amelia was the lone woman…
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