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…

A writer walks into a bar…

And orders up a short story. And then another. True story! Where was I? Cafe Zoetrope in San Francisco. This flatiron shaped building near Chinatown and North Beach is owned by Francis Ford Coppola. I am drawn to it like the proverbial moth to a flame. It started as a newspaper office. Great filmmakers…

Read: Ron Base’s “Dame”

It’s fun, don’t you think, to read a book set in a place where you are. I walked through the Fort Myers (Florida) airport the other day and saw an author standing at a table trying to sell books to people in a hurry. As an author, I immediately felt empathy for him. I had to…