With National Novel Writing Month over, I’m emerging from my writing cave for two really fun events in December—besides the Christmas holidays, of course. First up, Sunday, Dec. 8, at 2 p.m., I am the featured reader at the Poe House and Museum‘s monthly Authors Series. I will be reading from Mr. Poe’s “MS. Found…
By now, National Novel Writing Month fans, you should have written 32,000 words on your latest romance/thriller/mystery/memoir/adult-fiction/YA/historical. Right. Did life get in the way for you too? It definitely did for me. First came the house issues. Then we had to celebrate my son’s engagement to the most wonderful young woman in the world. Phew.…
This weekend, Nov. 1-3, booklovers will gather at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to snatch up some new books and book-related stuff and—my favorite part—to see and listen to lots of authors writing lots of great books. The Baltimore Book Festival has become my home in the past few years. Cancel everything! I have to hang with my…
National Novel Writing Month is coming! National Novel Writing Month is coming! Did you hear? November is NaNoWriMo–a month set aside for anyone who thinks they might like to try their hand at writing a novel. Well, the first draft anyway. I’ve participated in this crazy month of impossible daily word counts since 2012. It took…
It felt all wrong this past weekend. when I didn’t go to the Baltimore Book Festival. I go every year, without fail. Since I published DIVIDED LOYALTIES in 2017, I’ve even brought my books and spoken on panels in the Maryland Romance Writers tent. But this year, things are different. The Baltimore Office of Promotions…
The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival is returning to Baltimore next weekend. It is held the weekend before the anniversary of his death (October 7) right outside the house where he launched his career as the master of the macabre. It’s remarkable, really, that the streets around this tiny five-room house close down for two…
Dear Kindle readers, I am happy to report that the Kindle edition of my new Christmas novella, LOVE LETTERS & GINGERBREAD, is now available on Amazon.com. It took some doing but I’ve cut through the red tape, tamed the giant stack of paperwork to make sure Kindle fans could get a copy for their e-readers,…
A delightful romance! Tilghman skillfully captures the essence of young love and warm Christmas traditions in this holiday novella. – E. Elizabeth Watson author of Westward Bound and The Ladies of Scotland series This is the lovely blurb that appears on the top of my new novella, LOVE LETTERS & GINGERBREAD, my Christmas story set in Annapolis…
After I signed books at the Greyhound, an indie bookstore in Berlin, Md., —and sold out— the owner asked me to bring extra copies to put on her shelves. I took them to the shop this past weekend and now I’m honored to say, you can find DIVIDED LOYALTIES and LOVE LETTERS & GINGERBREAD on…
This summer I’ve gobbled up so many beautiful books: Here’s a list, probably not complete, though these have had a profound effect on me as a human being and as a writer. ON THE COME UP, by Angie Thomas. I listened to this one, just as I listened to her audiobook of THE HATE U…
Mary K. Tilghman, writer 