BECAUSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, THE MARYLAND ROMANCE WRITERS HAVE POSTPONED THIS WORKSHOP. DETAILS WILL BE ANNOUNCED WHEN IT IT RESCHEDULED. SORRY FOR SUCH DISAPPOINTING NEWS I knew our writing community was lucky to arrange with author Grace Burrowes, a best-selling writer of historical fiction and romance, to speak during a day long Master Class–but now…
In an effort to spice up my reading for 2020, I decided to “read globally, read locally.” I want to read the work of authors from other countries but add a few books from local (and I mean Maryland writers) authors to the mix. My January choices have made me smile with delight, laugh out…
I will always remember 2019 as the year of Angie Thomas and her young adult novels. I started the year reading THE HATE U GIVE and scooped up ON THE COME UP late in the summer. I cherished the strong teen-aged voices of Star and Bri. My heart broke for Star when her friend was gunned…
E. Elizabeth Watson has shared on her blog a long wonderful list of holiday reads, everything from my little book, Love Letters & Gingerbread, to her Scottish romance Christmas Wore Plaid to a collection of Hanukkah stories. Lots are historical fiction, including those rugged Scots and the always popular Regency. But there are contemporary romances,…
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to read Edgar Allan Poe’s “MS. Found in a Bottle,” a short story he wrote while living in the West Baltimore house. It’s said this story of a storm-tossed ship launched Mr. Poe’s career as a weaver of strange and eerie tales. Much more frightening was opening my own work…
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…
Mary K. Tilghman, writer 