Debra Borchert has had many careers: clothing designer, actress, TV show host, spokesperson for high-tech companies, marketing and public relations professional, technical writer for Fortune 100 companies, and author. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Writer, among others. Her short stories appear independently, My Sons Will Eat Today, Not be Bread Alone, and in And All Our Yesterdays, Feisty Deeds, The Unsavvy Traveler, X-Stories. Her recipes and articles about France appear in France Today, Taste of France, and The Good Life France, A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, she weaves her knowledge of textiles and clothing design throughout her historical French fiction. Her protagonists, powerful, resilient and courageous women do the wrong things for the right reason in her Château de Verzat series. At her characters’ insistence, she published their recipes in the companion cookbook, Soups of Château de Verzat: A Literary Cookbook and Culinary Tribute to the French Revolution. Her work has been honored with Historical Novel Society Editors’ Choice, Publishers Weekly BookLife Editor’s Pick, and many five-star reviews.Passionate about engaging with history, she enjoys presenting Common Women, Uncommon Courage During the French Revolution to, feminists, Francophiles, and students. Passionate about soup, she demonstrates her simple-to-make soups on cooking shows and podcasts. The proud owner of ten slow cookers, she celebrates the holidays with annual soup parties at which she serves ten soups from different cultures. An ex-New Yorker, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and standard poodle who is named after a fine French champagne. Sign up for her newsletter at website: debraborchert. Read more about this authorRead less about this author