Speaking & Conversations

Williamaye Jones speaks on storytelling, historical fiction, and what makes a novel truly work—drawing on decades of experience in publishing and editorial practice. Her work focuses on the intersection of history, women’s lives, and cultural memory, and the ways narrative shapes how we understand power, identity, and consequence across time.

She appears on panels, podcasts, and at conferences to explore narrative authority, reading culture, and the craft of storytelling—offering both a reader-first perspective and an insider’s view of how stories are shaped, refined, and brought to life.

Speaking topics include:

• Writing women into the margins of history
• Power, faith, and inheritance in historical fiction
• Reading like a writer—and why it matters
• Storytelling as cultural preservation
• Desire, censorship, and forbidden texts through history