As a journalist, Mary K. Tilghman couldn’t always promise her subjects happy endings.
Now as a novelist of historical fiction and sweet romance, she creates restless characters
who must break out of their routines to find happiness.
Spend a weekend with one of her books and
escape to worlds full of courage, love, and—always—happy endings.

I spent 45 years as a journalist, always chasing facts, figures and quotes.

Then I discovered fiction. Facts are still important but now I could make up the stories that go with those facts. When I began thinking about how ordinary people respond to extraordinary times, I knew what I wanted to write about.

As a journalist, I wrote for Maryland-based community newspapers. In addition, I wrote six travel guides for Frommer’s  and one for Globe-Pequot.

Divided Loyalties, my first novel, was written during National Novel Writing Month in 2015. Black Rose Writing published it July 27, 2017, and the second edition with a new cover was re-issued in 2019. The book was included in CBSBaltimore’s 5 Baltimore Authors to Put On Your Summer Reading List.

Love Letters & Gingerbread re-tells in my own humble way Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. Patsy may feel love deep in her soul but while she’s pining for Mr. Wrong, Mr. Right is standing beside her loving her in his own quiet way. Meanwhile, her sensible older sister Angela prefers a more thoughtful action-oriented love, even as she secretly longs for the young man who has stolen her heart. While these two young women figure out what love is, they’re in for a Christmas they’ll never forget.

My sweet romances are mostly centered in places I love, my home state of Maryland, nearby Chincoteague, Virginia, and on a sailing ship cruising the Dalmatian Coast. (Sometimes, I have to travel to find my happiness, too.)

I’m a member of the Romance Writers of America, the Maryland Romance Writers, and the Historical Novel Society. You can find me on Instagram  and on Facebook.

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