For 40 years, I’ve been on the other side of the interview. But this time around, I’m in the hot seat. Jessica A. Scott, an author who leads a Facebook book club called Indie Eden Book Club, asked me a few questions before her members (and anyone who wants to join in) start discussing my…
Rebekah DeVall asked me about my writing and inspiration for Divided Loyalties. Her questions and my answers appear to day on This Wednesday’s World: “Divided Loyalties” with M.K. Tilghman Thanks, Rebekah. That was fun.
First I screamed! The email was simple. It merely asked if I wanted to participate in a signing with Nora Roberts at Turn the Page Bookstore and Cafe. It was months away. So after I screamed, I wrote back. YES!!!!! I didn’t even look at my calendar. Who in their right mind would turn down…
Will you be in Boonsboro Saturday for the next book-signing at Turn the Page Bookstore? When I joined the long line that stretched down the sidewalk along the town’s main street at the June book-signing, I never dreamed I’d be invited to sit with all those illustrious authors, including Nora Roberts, one day in the…
Welcome to National Novel Writing Month. For me, it has made all the difference. Without NaNoWriMo, there would be DIVIDED LOYALTIES, no Maureen, no Joe, no Eliza, no man with the gun. I wouldn’t have spent a month deeply engaged in the places the Battle of Antietam touched.I would never have even known about a…
Are you ready for NaNoWriMo? There are as many ways to get ready as there are future novelists. Everyone I’ve talked to does something different. Until this year, I did nothing besides decide on a place, and a main character. From those meager preparations I have written three novels during NaNoWriMo or Camp NaNoWriMo. One…
I sometimes find myself going down the rabbit hole of historical research. The fact I’m looking for leads to another interesting tidbit and that leads to something else that fouls up my assumptions that tangles up my story that then finds me looking at an unfinished sentence, thinking “Now what?” My dear critique partners are…
I’ll mark the anniversary of the Battle of Antietam at Greetings and Readings Sunday, Sept. 17, with a book signing. Divided Loyalties—have you heard?—tells the story of a young Irish lass who wants to serve her adopted country as her brother Joe plans to do. It’s a struggle all the way as she strives to…
My two writing obsessions—novels and travel writing—come together next week in Winchester, Virginia. Winchester is the site of this year’s Mid-Atlantic Travel Public Relations Alliance (MATPRA) Media Marketplace, an event I’ve attended as a travel writer for many years. This year, I’ll also be going as a new novelist. I’m going to sign my book…
UPDATE: What fun we had! One of our authors was called away and we missed her. But we had a rollicking good time. The conversation went on long past the closing time. People came from all over the country. So many books, so many talented authors. And lots of readers who sounded like they found…
Mary K. Tilghman, writer 