Scenes from the Book Festival

The sun hadn’t shone for days but when the Baltimore Book Festival opened Friday morning, the clouds slipped out of the way of the sun and we were treated to three gorgeous early fall days. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor was packed with book-lovers. I spent a lot of time with the Maryland Romance Writers. Even though I…

Book festival this weekend

The Baltimore Book Festival is set to begin Friday morning at 11. If you love books and writers, words and sentences, grammar and punctuation, pizza and Asian steamed buns (I always have to mention food), this is your festival. The Maryland Romance Writers tent is on Light Street near the Visitors Center. The schedule is…

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—NEW DATE

Spring Author Series Rising Sun Inn, Crownsville, MD NEW DATE!! Saturday, April 13, 2019 I am honored to announce I will speak as part of the Spring Author Series at the Rising Sun Inn. However, due to scheduling complications (family obligations—A wedding!‚) the date has been changed to April 13, at 1 p.m. This year’s series focuses…

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…