by Mary | Jul 9, 2019 | The Women of the Copper Country
Prologue Turn tears to fire! – Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare The dream is always simple. The memory never is. It’s an echo from 1903 when she was almost sixteen. A rare family outing down to the county fair in Houghton, Michigan. Her father probably...
by Mary | Mar 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday, March 19, Kindle readers can get A Thread of Grace for $1.99.
by Mary | Jan 26, 2019 | Corpus Christi, What I'm working on now., women of the copper country, Writer Tech
Amid this week’s tumultuous current events, I’ve been working through the galleys of The Women of the Copper Country, which will be published on August 6th this year. Galley proofs are the preliminary versions of publications meant for review by authors,...
by Mary | Jan 4, 2019 | Annie Clements, Calumet, Far Beyond The Copper Country, women of the copper country
It’s official. Women of the Copper Country will be out on August 6, 2019. Here’s a link to the Simon & Schuster page with a short description and a picture of the cover art. The online catalog has a set of BUY NOW buttons and I will shamelessly urge...
by Mary | Dec 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
If you’d like autographed or personalized copies of my books to give this holiday season, you can order them from Mac’s Backs/Books on Coventry, a local independent bookstore that makes the process easy. You order what you’d like, the staff brings the books to...
by Mary | Sep 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Every year, at my brother’s request, I repost this essay. Please give it a few minutes of thought. And then say “I love you” to someone who needs to hear it.
by Mary | Sep 6, 2018 | An Unremembered Life, Annie Clements, Far Beyond The Copper Country, Labor History, Michigan
Titles are hard. An author routinely makes about 200,000 individual decisions about what goes into a novel and what comes out, but those last few words are a group project involving the author, the editor, the marketing department, and the art director. A book’s...
by Mary | Aug 29, 2018 | A THREAD OF GRACE
Seventy-five years ago, on September 8, 1943, hundreds of Jewish families fled a Nazi round-up in France by climbing the Maritime Alps, hoping to find shelter in the hills of northwestern Italy. Now there is a yearly march to commemorate that exodus — Marche de...
by Mary | Jun 29, 2018 | An Unremembered Life, Current events
There are a lot of variations on “those who do not study the past are doomed to repeat it.” My response has always been, “Those of us who do study the past are doomed, too. We just feel worse about it.” We are living in a country that past...
by Mary | May 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
If you’ve read more than one of my books, you probably won’t be surprised by my politics. If you follow me on Facebook, you certainly know where I stand in great and vivid detail. Ordinarily I confine this blog to book-related posts. Today, I can’t...
