Joanne Miller/Joanne Orion Miller is the published author of eight non-fiction books on history and travel and contributor to many more; several books feature Joanne's photographs. In 2013, she began traveling solo around the world; destinations, surprises and delights are chronicled in her blog 1Woman1World1Year.blogspot.com, accompanied by videos on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/search?q=joanne+orion+miller).Her short stories, including a top pick for the Raymond Carver Award, are published in both hard copy and e-zine formats. Joanne's latest work is "Shaketown; the Madam's Daughter," an historical novel set in San Francisco's Victorian underworld; the story follows the intertwined lives of an "accidental" Madame who chooses freedom over respectability and a Chinese scholar who defies a city bent on destroying him. This unusual family saga is based on real people and events: the experiences of Chinese immigrants and a real-life Irish girl who became a notorious--and unapologetic--madam during San Francisco's wide-open gilded age. Sex, murder, clever women, true love of every stripe, and an earthquake--that's "Shaketown."