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Release Date: 12 December 2025
Contributors: Carolyn Korsmeyer (Editor); Christy Matheson (Editor); Elaine Aucoin Schroller (Editor); Kay Smith-Blum (Editor); Kimberly Sullivan (Editor); Apple An: Debra Borchert; Paulette Brooks; Teri M. Brown; Elisabeth Carson-Williams; Heather Dodge Martin; Gabi Coatsworth ; Joan Fernandez ; Beth Anne Hill ; Beata Kurcz; NJ Mastro; Kimberly Nixon ; Lorraine Norwood; Margaret Porter; April Quarto Wright; Barb Buckley Ristine; Suzanne Uttaro Samuels; Ashley E. Sweeney; Nina Wachsman; Patty W. Warren
Pages: 274
ISBN13: 979-8-9912002-6-4

  

Concoctions, treats, brews, and potions from another batch of feisty characters

Whether cooking for solace, scrounging for food, concocting medicine, or brewing poisons, the feisty women in these stories will keep you thirsting for more. Twenty-five tales will transport you far afield in time and place: third century Ireland, medieval Europe, twentieth-century Australia.

Read your way from a hippie commune to a WW II internment camp in the Philippines; from a Renaissance palace to a Polish village wracked by war, the hills of Appalachia, and a sleepy Ontario town.

Mixtures to soothe, heal, and thrall are prepared in these pages, where lovers take revenge, mothers protect their children, and feisty women make choices in a challenging world.

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Foreword by KJ Dell'Antonia

All proceeds from this anthology go to the Women's Fiction Writers Association (WFWA) Scholarship Fund, assisting authors in financial need.

"I am delighted to welcome you to a world in which women and our many powers take center stage through the arc of history." - From the Foreword by K.J. Dell'Antonia, New York Times best-selling author of the novels The Chicken Sisters, Playing the Witch Card, and In Her Boots

Praise

"A sweeping, intimate, and beautifully told celebration of women's resilience. Scarce meals, secret herbs, handed-down cures, and poisons brewed in silence form the book's heartbeat. With each act, women protect, resist, sacrifice, or seize control. The anthology moves between tenderness, darkness, and the mythic, yet each story centers on a woman acting with purpose despite her era's constraints. Wartime mothers endure, Renaissance cooks navigate peril, and modern women face inherited wounds—each leaving a mark. Though varied in style, the stories hum with the same quiet resonance. From era to era, these women shape their worlds through what they mix, prepare, and choose. Fans of historical fiction and thoughtful portraits of resilience will feel right at home in these pages." - The Prairies Book Review

"Another empowered collection of tall tales centered on history's unsung heroines, Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews is a stirring testament to righteous rule-breaking and radically independent minds ... These globe-spanning tales of dauntless women are pitch-perfect, timely and meticulously crafted ... While these stories range in subject matter and seriousness, each one incisively captures the burden, beauty, an unwavering resilience of women in any era.  - Self-Publishing Review