Besides my website, this blog and social media, I have attempted to get news about my books out into the world through paid ads. I took advertising copywriting classes back in the day (so long ago you can write about the era and call it historical fiction.) But do I know what grabs readers’ attention…
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…
Connecting with readers is one of the most important things authors do. If no one reads the works we publish, then what’s the point? On Saturday, April 13, I’m speaking as part of an author’s series about my first book DIVIDED LOYALTIES. But I’m also going to speak about my NEXT book, LOVE LETTERS &…
Spring Author Series Rising Sun Inn, Crownsville, MD NEW DATE!! Saturday, April 13, 2019 I am honored to announce I will speak as part of the Spring Author Series at the Rising Sun Inn. However, due to scheduling complications (family obligations—A wedding!‚) the date has been changed to April 13, at 1 p.m. This year’s series focuses…
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…
I’ve done all the work to build settings that show how I think the countryside around Antietam Creek looked in 1862. I researched the Battle of Antietam, battlefield nurses and medicine (only enough; I’m squeamish). I’ve considered the clothes people wore then, the foods they ate, the names of the roads and churches and when…
Mary K. Tilghman, writer 