Book cover Bingo!!

For the Baltimore Book Festival, I have been asked to participate in a fun game of book cover Bingo with fellow members of the Maryland Romance Writers. It is my responsibility to come up with five covers of five books I LOVE!!! to go on the game boards. How to choose? I read a ton…

Meet me at the book festival

I love the Baltimore Book Festival. I buy too many books to carry and meet authors I LOVE. Now that I have a book of my very own published, I get to meet people who have read my book or who want to read it. It’s humbling and so exciting. This year, I’ll be at…

Mark your calendars

Spring Author Series Rising Sun Inn, Crownsville, MD May 18, 2019 I am honored to announce I will speak as part of the Spring Author Series at the Rising Sun Inn, Saturday, May 18, at 1 p.m. This year’s series focuses on Maryland women writers. I know that’s a long time away — but we already…

Summer reading list—and I’m on it

I was totally honored to find my book on a summer reading list with some great Baltimore writers in a column published this week. As the CBSLocal.com writer Joel Furchess said: “For your summer reading, try Tilghman’s “Divided Loyalties,”a story placed in the Civil War era, and featuring a narrative of a battlefield nurse and…

Thanks Romance Novel Addicts Anonymous

I’m delighted to announce my Civil War novel, DIVIDED LOYALTIES, rated four roses from Romance Novel Addicts Anonymous. I was delighted to hear the cheers for Maureen: “I enjoyed the bravery and strength of the main character, Maureen, who served as a nurse during the war despite her father’s well-meaning but fierce objections.” I understood…

Indie Interview: Mary Tilghman

Thanks to Rebecca Howie, an author and fellow WordPress blogger, for her post about my book, DIVIDED LOYALTIES. We talked about the book, my writing process and what’s in the works. Want to read more? Go to Rebecca’s blog. via Indie Interview: Mary Tilghman

Paying tribute to Civil War nurses, like Maureen, during Women’s History Month

Last Saturday, I took part in a Women’s History Month event at the Boonsboro Library. While my two fellow panelists are real historians—John Banks writes a great Civil War blog, and Emilie Amt is a professor of history at Hood College—I was invited because of DIVIDED LOYALTIES. The program was organized by Smoketown-Antietam Hospital Project. It…

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