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Upcoming events for 2015

Upcoming events in 2015 This list will be updated throughout the year, but here is what’s coming up so far. Hope to see you there! January 24—Book signing at CCEA Gala, Schaefer’s Canal House February 28—Bay to Ocean Writers’ Conference, … Continue reading →

More mystery in historic Chesapeake City

In case you missed it, the Cecil Whig newspaper and website published another Chesapeake City mystery featuring the characters from “Delmarva Renovators.” Tom and Mac first appeared in “The House that Went Down with the Ship,” which is an old house … Continue reading →

Upcoming talks for Fall 2014

Upcoming talks Great Storms of the Chesapeake talk, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, Md., October 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm  Keepers of the Light talk, Chesapeake City Branch Library, Chesapeake City, Md., November 17, 2014 at 6:30 pm

Beach Bodies gets a headline: Making the cut for beach reading

By Ken Mammarella The News Journal   To the list of potentially fatal risks at the beach – such as riptides, lighting and sunstroke – add being kidnapped for your kidneys. That’s the premise of “Beach Bodies ($14.99 on Amazon), … Continue reading →

D-Day memories 70 years later

Back in July 1998 I went to see the new Tom Hanks’ film “Saving Private Ryan” with a group of Cecil County (Maryland) veterans who had been at D-Day. The idea was to get a reaction to the film from … Continue reading →

Hooking Your Readers with Some Help from Jaws

Originally posted on Kaplan University Writing Center Faculty Blog:
David Healey, Kaplan University Composition Faculty © 2014 Clipart.com Hooking your readers turns out to have a lot in common with pretending to be a shark. One of my favorite childhood…

Behind the Badge: An interview with BEACH BODIES detective Nick Logan

Behind the Badge An interview with Nick Logan, one half of the detective team in Beach Bodies: A Rehoboth Beach thriller.  By Jorge Alvarez, staff reporter What’s your favorite beach food? That’s a tough call. There are so many great … Continue reading →

Big GHOST SNIPER giveaway kicks off!

GHOST SNIPER is set during the Normandy invasion that began on D-Day, June 6, 1944. To mark the 70th commemoration of D-Day, there is going to be a fairly big giveaway over at Goodreads. Ten copies of the book will … Continue reading →

Giving in to the siren song of researching a novel

One of my favorite aspects of writing is actually reading about the time period in which a story is set. By reading I mean “research” or learning as much as I can about whatever I happen to be writing about. … Continue reading →

Tips on hosting a Facebook chat for authors

The weather forecasts were calling for the most snow we’d had in years here in Maryland. It was just possible that the “snow band” through the I-95 corridor ranging from just west of Baltimore up toward Philadelphia could see 2 … Continue reading →