On a recent visit to Western Maryland, my husband and I stopped in the Garrett County Historical Society Museum in Oakland. It’s chock full of memorabilia from every age back to when Native Americans traveled on what is now Route 219. I loved seeing the old tools, a log cabin recreated at the back of…
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…
It’s book release day for LOVE LETTERS & GINGERBREAD. Christmas comes early for me as I’m proud to introduce you to LOVE LETTERS & GINGERBREAD, my Christmas novella set in 1831 Annapolis. I first met Patricia and Angela when I wrote DIVIDED LOYALTIES. Maureen and her friends Eliza and Amy were searching the battlefield at…
Introducing the cover of LOVE LETTERS & GINGERBREAD. Due to be released July 25 (Christmas in July!) LOVE LETTERS & GINGERBREAD recalls the romances of two sisters living in 1831 Annapolis. Patsy burns with love for Vincent, until he goes away for the Christmas season. Her still-unmarried older sister, Angela, is devoted to helping her…
Divided Loyalties, my Civil War-era saga of an Irish teen who volunteers to serve the men wounded after the Battle of Antietam, will be officially re-released in paperback July 1 with a brand new cover. I am delighted to introduce it now. It is very different from the original cover, darker but softer, I think.…
I have joined the most awesome group of writers. We’ve formed a Facebook page, Off the Beaten Path Historical Stories, designed for readers so we can share what we’re writing, researching, studying and reading. And so we can get to know those people we love almost as much as our own family. Our readers. We are…
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…
Have you ever read two books at the same time and find they intersect?
DIVIDED LOYALTIES, my Civil War historical novel is available in paperback and e-book by Black Rose Writing. When war comes, will Maureen side with family or country? I wrote my Civil War novel for my mother and my daughters. I wrote it to honor Clara Barton, a personal heroine and the women with the healing touch. DIVIDED LOYALTIES tells the story…
You know it’s a good story when you’ll find some more ironing to do just to keep the story going. Robert Masello‘s thriller is part Indiana Jones, part Monuments Men with a dash of The DaVinci Code and even demon stories thrown in. I listened to The Einstein Prophecy (on Kindle Unlimited) because I had so much…
