Witness to the miracle of reading

A vivacious little six-year-old skips down her school corridors. She stops in front of the bulletin boards, signs and framed sayings that cover the walls. And she reads them. With a sparkle in her bright brown eyes, she reads the words aloud with a touch of awe in her voice. As if it is a…

Reading the RITA winners, Part 1

What makes a book worthy of the Romance Writers of America’s annual RITA award? I wanted to know from a reader’s perspective. So armed with the cover of the September RWA magazine, Romance Writers Report, I started looking for them, the best of all the novels submitted to the annual contest. There are 13, everything…

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…

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…