Christina Larocco

Feb 27, 2025 | janefriedman.com | Christina Larocco |Jane Friedman

Today’s post is by author, book coach and historian Christina Larocco. Nearly a decade ago, I worked as a consultant on a project to digitize manuscript collections related to the women’s rights movement in the Philadelphia region, where I live. It was a great job: I spent the summer of 2016 going from archive to archive, devouring the writing of activists both well-known, like Lucretia Mott and Alice Paul, and less so, like Martha Schofield.

Jul 9, 2024 | janefriedman.com | Christina Larocco |Jane Friedman

Today’s post is by author, book coach and historian Christina Larocco. In “The Voyager Conspiracy,” a season six episode of the television show Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, a former Borg drone, connects her brain directly to the ship’s computer. All of a sudden, she has access to unimaginable amounts of information—but she can’t make sense of any of it. Have you ever felt like this when you sit down to write after doing a ton of research on a subject?