“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Currently panicking a little about signing books for the first time today and having no idea how I’ll sign them.

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.

Can't we just get healthcare

“Utah is literally the heart and soul of the LDS church; what happens there happens everywhere. That’s like saying the heart pumps poison but it’s fine if you’re the stomach.” @lhamiltonwriter.bsky.social hits it out of the park again. (Also I’ve lived all over the country. Can confirm.)

Trying my hand at dowsing rods at Sally Chase’s grave. No spirits or water detected. Or maybe my magic Mormonism DNA hasn’t kicked in yet

New blog post about getting lured into attending Sunday school with history: lindahamiltonwriter.substack.com/p/a-historia...

Very annoyed that there is the perfect academic paper out there on the topic I’m writing about this weekend and it’s only accessible in person at BYU.

Highly recommend this novel!! Reading right now

The Barnes & Noble preorder sale is back, Sept 3rd-5th! Members can get 25% off preorder books using code PREORDER25. And The Fourth Wife is a qualifying title! Go grab a copy and help a debut author.

Currently reading the galley THE FOURTH WIFE by @lhamiltonwriter.bsky.social So far she’s nailing the polygamy part. My great-great grandfather was a polygamist. Grew up hearing stories from my great-grandmother, the daughter of a polygamist. She died in later 1980s

THE FOURTH WIFE is up on Goodreads!! This is wild!! Adding it to your GR shelves is an easy way to help out a debut author.

I’m not getting my grad school reading done because I keep hope scrolling for Taylor & Travis.

Can’t believe The Fourth Wife is going out to early readers! So excited to share my spooky Mormon Gothic.

I love how my Civil War professor sounds exactly like he belongs in a Ken Burns documentary.

It’s that time for year when I browse Halloween decor for things to decorate my house year round.

The Fourth Wife is officially on NetGalley, available for request! If you love Gothics, female rage, and are ready for polygamous Mormon folklore, go check it out 👀

My cheeks hurt from smiling so big listening to Taylor and Travis on New Heights. I need this joy injected right into my veins.

Screaming about this cover!! The vibes are perfection!! And it’s available now to preorder. I wrote THE FOURTH WIFE to give a voice to my silent Mormon foremothers and to share the realities of polygamy. At its heart, this is a feminist tale of female rage and discovering your own power.

I’m surprised this isn’t everywhere in Mormon-land, but I guess no one is shocked by old men talking about polygamy anymore. exponentii.org/blog/heavenl...

It feels a little weird to share happy moments when the world is like it is, but my debut book is finally up for preorder! There’s also a BN sale this week. Preorders are critical; BN makes decisions on which books to put in stores based on preorder numbers, so I really appreciate the early support!

It’s an awesome day to not subject myself to 4th of July weekend open mic Sunday.

My blog today might make some conspiracy theorists mad, but I’m so tired of watching them trample on women to defend a predator. exponentii.org/blog/denying...

Presented my first academic paper at Mormon History Association today and no one booed. Success!

Secret Lives of Mormon Wives inspired my more spicy blog post in Exponent II today: exponentii.org/blog/i-think...

The things I am learning in my research for my next book… history is WILD y’all. Like everyone better read the author’s note because I swear I’m not making this up.

New blog post on prom and purity culture: lindahamiltonwriter.substack.com/p/purity-cul...

I’ve officially survived four semesters of grad school!

Daisy in my Girl Scout troop: Miss Linda, wow!! You washed your hair!! Me: um, yes? Upon further conversation I realized she meant I curled my hair, but she had my questioning all my life choices there for a moment.

The unsuspecting bagger at Trader Joe’s just being friendly: So what did you do today? Me: Wrote a paper. B: On what? M: The relationship between the NAACP and the Mormon church in the 1960s and the role of the church’s institutionalized racism in Utah’s civil rights legislation. B: Oh… wow.

Just had to go digging through the 1958 version of Mormon Doctrine for exact quotes on the “curse of Cain” for my paper and now I need to lie down.

I’m very honored to be a guest on this week’s At Last She Said It podcast sharing my spiritual journey! open.substack.com/pub/atlastsh...

I have to be dance mom today but I am with you in spirit at the Hands Off protests! Stay safe friends

Day 3 of a nasty cold but at least I finished my rough first draft of my paper for MHA!

Waking up to Senator Booker’s continuing filibuster brings me so much joy. Happy April everyone! ❤️

My in laws: why don’t you move to Utah?! Me:

Yesterday wrote 1500 words of new fiction. Today nonfiction history on Winter Quarters. Later a feminist blog post on Mormon burial traditions. Living the writer dream (and maybe one day I’ll make real money from it).

“Overall, the church is telling women, “We need you, but stay in your place.”” So you need women’s labor but don’t actually care about the women. Got it. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

“MAGA supporters see themselves as fearless truth-seekers exposing corruption in a world full of sheep. In reality, they are the ones being herded.”

I’m not doing okay with this news. religionnews.com/2025/03/17/p...

Finished my author’s note for my Mormon Gothic and I seriously can’t wait for people to get to read this book!

People who turn in first drafts of papers both amaze and terrify me. Just finished a first draft and I’m not sure it’s even written in complete sentences yet, let alone something I would send in to be read.

I’m in the “do twenty minutes of research to write one sentence” phase of my paper. It’s so interesting and also the worst.

New blog post on Emma Hale Smith and why I kind of hate D&C 25. lindahamiltonwriter.substack.com/p/an-elect-l...

If they’re going to make us change times, they should at least make the Monday after a holiday.

Happy International Women’s Day!

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.