Setting the Record Ablaze: A Reaction to My First Review
Post Summary: A reflection on the Reedsy Discovery review and how it captured the deeper message of the book: that illuminating history sometimes requires fire.
When I wrote History Waits to Be Heard, I didn’t set out to burn history down. I set out to illuminate it — to dig beneath the surface and uncover the stories left in the shadows. But sometimes, it turns out, illumination requires fire.
Reading the Reedsy Discovery review felt like someone had lit a torch and said, "Yes, we see it now."
That quote above hit harder than I expected. It captured something I hadn’t consciously put into words until that moment: this book isn’t just about forgotten women. It’s about the systems that forget them. It’s about the conditions that determine whose names we remember — and whose are discarded, quietly, generation after generation.
This reviewer saw past the individual profiles to the deeper message:
- That Boudicca isn’t remembered because she was a woman, but because she defied empire like a man.
- That women have been building, leading, discovering — long before history decided they were worth mentioning.
- That equality isn’t just about being included in the story — it’s about changing the terms of what’s deemed worthy of inclusion.
That’s what Equality Without Distinction means.
I’m honored — and humbled — that someone not only read the book, but truly felt it.
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