It’s my day at Colonial Quills! So you know what that means. =) For a bit of fun history, hop over there, where I’m talking a bit about the paper-making process in Colonial America.
These days there’s a lot of talk of going “paperless.” Why? Because
paper clutters things up. We have stacks upon stacks of it. Reams
sitting, waiting to be used. In my house, there are desks full to
bursting with sketches and crayon drawings on paper of all weights and
colors and sizes. Need a bookmark? Grab a slip of paper. Need to make a
note? Grab a Post-It. Everywhere we look, there it is: paper.But paper wasn’t always so bountiful, nor was it cheap, nor was it made
from wood pulp like today’s paper usually is. Paper, in Colonial days,
was like most things: precious, and coming as a result of much toil.
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary.