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Debut Author Podcast: Lorraine Norwood

Lorraine is a North Carolina native who lives in the Blue Ridge mountains.  The Solitary Sparrow is her first novel.  She is working on the sequel, A Pelican in the Wilderness. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association where she served as a judge in the Rising Star awards. She worked as a professional journalist for over 20 years, then took a turn at midlife, earning an anthropology degree and a master’s in medieval archaeology. She then worked in archaeology and historic preservation, participating in excavations in the US and England. She is the mother of two grown daughters and two granddaughters. She is happy that at long last, after two marriages, two children, fourteen jobs, three college degrees, and twenty-three moves (two of which were abroad), she has a room of her own in which to write.