✺ 09-16-19OpenRoadBooks: Introduction to the Descendants of Taylor Caldwell family, and Open Road promotions of TC's books.

• A link to the family review of Great Lion of God.
• A link to Patricia Stein's comments on a long history of reading TC's novels.

✺ 09-20-19ORBooksAnnc: A link to Volume 1 of Taylor Caldwell's collected work being promoted by Open Road ebooks.

• A link to the whole stable of books advertised at Open Road.
• A link to the facebook page of the Taylor Caldwell Appreciation Society.
• A link to signup for Open Road notices of TC's books.

✺ 09-30-19ORBooksAnnc: The first comments by the family discussing Taylor Caldwell's relation with the media after her early success as an author.

• A link to critic Peter Gemma's review of TC's relation with the media.
• Family comment on the difficulty of putting together TC's intelligence with her sometimes strident comments on the decades of the '50s, '60's and '70s.
• Links to the signup page for this TC-Descendant's newsletter and a link to another source of TC books, enet Press.

✺ 10-01-19OR-TCDay: Links to 10 TC Novels on Open Road's site, in a day dedicated to only TC promotions.

• Link to a family review of TC's Testimony of Two Men.
• Link to an improved signup for this TC-Descendant's Newsletter.

✺ 10-06-19OR-TendVict: Some historical comments on Taylor Caldwell's novelistic settings in Pennsylvania, and her relation to another Buffalo writer.

• There were two extremely well-known and prolific writers from Buffalo, who lived a few short miles from each other.
• A review of Tender Victory that emphasizes that wars and priests were among her favorite paired topics.

✺ 10-29-19SearchTC: An advertisement for using the search feature on the family website. Examples are given with Gemma and Stein reviews. 10-29-19SearchTC.html

✺ 11-23-19ORBestSellingTitles: Two brief reviews of Taylor Caldwell's Pillar of Iron on the life of the Roman polymath Cicero, author and legal commentator on the end of the days of the Roman republic. 11-23-19ORBestSellingTitles.html

✺ 12-05-19TestofTwoMen: What Taylor Caldwell's characters address of society's issues in Testimony of Two Men. This month we look more closely – over time and breadth of subject – as to what were TC's positions on what mattered to her, and how did her positions change. We start with what TC viewed as her conservative position. This novel, published in 1968, with less than 1/3rd of her career remaining has a smaller than typical scope for her. It also has exemplars of good and evil that feature her conservative themes, in the mouths of characters over whom she had control:

• our duties to each other;
• our right to the control our own lives; and
• the vexing question of whether human nature is mutable.

✺ 12-14-19DevilsAdvoc: TC-Descendants Newletter: Dynamic changes in how Taylor Caldwell dealt with evil: TC's take on evil went through changes between the publication dates of the two promotions of TC's works left in December, The Devil's Advocate – 12/14/19 – published in 1967; and Time No Longer – 12/19/19 – published in 1941. Since, TC was in contact with some of America's most politically powerful groups, and was a spokesperson for some of them, this has some signficance. The newsletter comments, too, on how the minister Reinhold Niebuhr considered these same events. 12-14-19DevilsAdvoc.html

✺ 12-19-19TimeNoLonger: This open road promotion of Time No Longer included the TC-Descendants Newletter offer of a free copy of the audio disks for the novel. The newsletter and the accompanying review take a look at how Taylor Caldwell presents the presence of evil, and especially, here in Nazi Germany in the early 1930s, how it overwhelm almost anyone in this family of the twins Karl and Kurt. The madness is seen through the eyes of the heroine, Karl's wife Therese. It appeared before Americans understood the holocaust and the full extent of Nazi Germany. It has a link to a fuller family review of the novel. 12-19-19TimeNoLonger.html