News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
Award-winning author Valerie Webster, known for her captivating storytelling, has just unleashed the highly anticipated second book in the Rita Mars Thriller series – Objects of Desire. In this heart-pounding crime fiction, Rita Mars faces a relentless assault on her career, plunging readers into the sinister world of cybercrime. Set against the mysterious backdrop of […]
Continue ReadingSan Francisco, CA, ― Known for his mystery and suspense novels, author and photographer Gary E. Smith pivots his creative vision to crafting a compilation of short stories that share universal truths about the human experience in his latest book, A Collection of Short Stories & Poems. Smith employs a breezy, conversational voice as he […]
Continue ReadingOCEAN CITY, MD – The Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum is excited to announce a “Meet the Author/Book Signing Event” on May 7, 2022 from 11am-3pm at the Museum. Author Ellen Knop Marshall will be signing her book “Our Favorite Vacation Beach: Ocean City, Maryland” and will have the book available for purchase. A percentage […]
Continue ReadingAward-winning novelist B.B. Shamp will introduce readers to the world of bustling and contentious eighteenth-century seaport Oxford, Maryland in a reading and conversation based on her latest novel, A Wife in Watercolor, at the historic Robert Morris Inn on April 23, 2022. Shamp will discuss her book and sign copies in the Inn’s dining room […]
Continue ReadingJustin Thomas Nash, a 22-year-old from Smyrna, Delaware, has won the 2021 Sophie Kerr Prize, the largest undergraduate literary prize in the nation. He was among six finalists considered for the prize, worth $65,580 this year. Named after an Eastern Shore author who made her fortune in New York writing women’s fiction during the 1930s […]
Continue ReadingNew York, NY — Frank Sinatra’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” Judy Garland’s “Come Rain or Come Shine” and Nat King Cole’s “Unforgettable” would not be the same immortal melodies without the musical genius of prolific composer and arranger Nelson Riddle, arguably the greatest of his era. Riddle collaborated with the biggest musical stars […]
Continue ReadingSALISBURY, MARYLAND – A leading bookstore and book publisher on the Eastern Shore of Maryland are joining forces to select and publish the year’s best short stories devoted to the theme of communication between dogs and humans. The subject is especially timely coming after a year of worldwide pandemic in which so many people have […]
Continue ReadingEditor’s Note: We have just been notified that the Garfield Center has announced a temporary cancellation of this week’s presentation by local Poet Lindsay Lusby. They intend to reschedule Lindsay’s presentation sometime in the next few weeks. Instead they will be holding their second GCTV MOVIE NIGHT featuring the noir classic Orson Welles drama “The […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — The ways in which early American settlers dealt with mental illness is the topic of the spring 2020 Guy F. Goodfellow Memorial Lecture at Washington College on Feb. 20. Cornelia Dayton, professor of history at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, will discuss her research. The event in Litrenta Lecture Hall in the […]
Continue ReadingQueenstown, MD – Lauren Monroe, author of The Maryland Shores women’s fiction series will greet book-buying customers, looking for last-minute gifts on Monday, December 23, 2019 at Book Warehouse/Queenstown, all afternoon/evening. Monroe, who in real life is Loriann Oberlin, therapist and non-fiction author, has written two books in her series thus far, which is popular […]
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