World Brave Sis: 100 Dreamtime Dialogues with Women Who Led the Way  is a follow up/companion to my Nautilus Award-winning book  Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History  (Workman/Hachette, 2023).  Where my first book provided introductions to the lives of 100 American woman, this tome is entirely different. Through these stories, I am honored to enter into a holy, out-of-this-world dialogue with the essence and voice of these women. Speaking candidly about their lives, thoughts, and actions, they evoke a bold "she-roism": not just through their confrontations with the contexts and morés during which they lived, but with a time-traveling view cast upon ways our world has changed since then (as well as the work still to be done.) Some "imagined interviews" are derived from well-documented lives, others are “composite narratives” gleaned from composites of what their story might have been based on the culture and norms of the time, but for whom there is no or scant “historic record.” Hence, this remarkable narrative compendium is part cultural-history book, part historical fiction, with “dreamed” psychic channeling, part righting of historic "wrongs" and erasures, with a few memoir-esque insertions from time to time, when the woman's story of country is connected to someone I've known over the course of my life. I have met a  lot  of amazing people from around the world, so this is for them and you, and us all. Think “James” (by Percival Everett) meets Oprah, with a splash of Christiane Amanpour and Hey Girl Podcast.  (read the draft introduction, see the interviewee list, and sample two interviews here ) Kickstarter is so passé; buy me a coffee (or a smoothie) and help support this new project.