Lead Like a Lady

Lydia Schmidt believes it's unfair that boys get to have all the fun, take risks, and accomplish great feats while girls have to be prim and proper. It's for that reason she is an emphatic believer in the woman's right to vote. Unexpected doors open to Lydia to actually walk out her beliefs and serve in the suffragette movement.
Though it brings her great pride, her stance isn't always appreciated among her school friends.
Additionally, once war breaks out in Europe, her German heritage is disparaged. In the light of Germany's war atrocities being revealed in the news, those in America with German names were treated unfairly.
On yet another front, her father is discriminated against in his workplace for his strong stand for unions, as he is voted in as an officer for his chapter.
It is a time of great challenges and difficulties. Will Lydia continue to struggle with her identity? Or will she discover the secret of how to lead like a lady?
The full-time writer is the author of over 50 published books under her own name and also scores of ghostwritten books.
Her books have been favorably reviewed in Affair de Coeur, Coffee Time Romance, Romance Reader at Heart, and The Romance Studio magazines, and her short fiction has garnered a number of first prizes in local writing contests.
Norma Jean is the founder of the Professionalism in Writing School, which was held annually in Tulsa for fourteen years. This writers' conference, which closed its doors in 1996, gave many writers their start in the publishing world.
A gifted teacher, Norma Jean has taught a variety of writing courses at local colleges and community schools, and is a frequent speaker at writers' seminars around the country. For ten years, she taught on staff for the Institute of Children's Literature. She has served as artist-in-residence at grade schools, and for two years taught a staff development workshop for language arts teachers in schools in Northeastern Oklahoma.
In 2010, she made the decision (along with many other authors) to leave the world of traditional publishing and become an indie author. Even though the learning curve was as she puts it "straight up," it was a decision she has never regretted. As she says, "Having the last say in my cover art and story content is pure joy to this author."
Her titles can be found here: njnotations.myshopify.com