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  • Booking Remote Book Club Visits

    June 16, 2020 /

    *** As many of us are still in the “working remotely” phase of this pandemic, I’ve decided to promote virtual book club visits to help promote reading and our sanity! I’m currently booked for a book club in July and have a lot of openings for book clubs who might want to read my books and discuss them. As an author, one of my favorite things to do is to meet new people through book club discussions. As I have five books on the market, I’m happy to visit your book club virtually. I’m getting good at this, especially since the back half of the semester I just taught was…

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    Happy World Book Day

    April 23, 2020

    Times Flies & Simple Goals for 2020

    December 29, 2019

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    November 22, 2020
  • Baseball Nostalgia and Baseball Fiction

    May 17, 2020 /

    ✨THINGS THAT HAVE MOST AFFECTED MY LIFE✨My parents & familyMy husband and kidsHigh school & collegeWorking in baseballBeing a teacherFriendships.✨THINGS THAT HAVE MOST AFFECTED MY STORYTELLING✨Broken lovesGrandmothersLife in baseballRelationships (good & bad)Losing people we loveMaryland’s beauty . BLACKBIRDS PARK is the fictional version of Camden Yards in my novel entitled Baseball Girl. I worked at Old Memorial Stadium and Camden Yards for the Orioles (hence the Cooperstown bear pictured here, a gift from Orioles owner Mrs. Angelos). I’m somebody who can feel romantic about places and about baseball. This novel is loosely based on my life working in baseball, an amalgamation of the people and places I loved over the…

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    2019 – I Bid You Adieu With a Swift Kick of The Boot

    December 30, 2019

    Endorsements for Baseball Girl

    July 14, 2015

    Pretty Things, Poetry, and Handmade Valentines

    January 27, 2016
  • Love and The Orioles

    March 11, 2020 /

    * My husband and I met while working in the front office for the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards back in the 90s. Many of you know this story, or may have heard it once or twice before here on Steph’s Scribe. But now the story has come full circle. My husband left the club in 1994, and I stayed until late 1998; he went on to have a long career in media and sales—spending time at the Wizards and Capitals, Redskins Radio, CBS Radio, RadioOne, MASN, and Comcast. Last month, he returned to the Orioles, the place where he began his career and is serving as the VP of…

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    Interpersonal Communication Up Next

    January 15, 2020

    Recounting Five Years of My Life As a Blogger

    April 17, 2016

    Stuff Those Stockings with Books

    December 4, 2015
  • The Thing That Connects Us

    December 14, 2019 /

    *** I was sitting here staring at a blank cursor knowing what I wanted to write but not knowing exactly how to say it. Then I remembered studying writer James Baldwin during my first master’s degree, and thought of his quote: “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who are alive, who had ever been alive.” – James Baldwin I’ve been “officially” publishing fiction now since 2012. Fiction is the best outlet to tell…

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    Podcast 8: Music When You Write + The Hard Road of Being An Indie Author

    March 2, 2020

    Stuff Those Stockings with Books

    December 4, 2015

    Fashion Friday, Week 1

    February 1, 2019
  • An Update and the Plot Overview of Little Milestones – Coming Soon

    July 9, 2019 /

    Right now, my beta readers are looking over the draft of Little Milestones. I am reading the manuscript again, as well, for the hundredth time. As well, I’ve started to create some of my marketing materials for the book. For those of us in the trenches as independent authors, it’s a never-ending cycle of book promotion, writing, and editing. We’re at it all the time as we try to build our brand and find our niche of readers. I’m still at it and I haven’t given up. Today, I’m sharing the draft of the copy that goes on the outside of a book or inside a book jacket—you know, the…

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    After I Was Dead — Friday Fiction

    January 29, 2016

    Back To School Sunday

    August 23, 2015

    Podcast 14: Finding and Flushing Out Story Ideas for Novel Writers

    April 14, 2020
  • The Wonderful, Wacky World of Writers

    May 5, 2019 /

    I’m just gonna put this out there because it makes me sad: too many people are not reading. They are spending their time on other things, which is great, but I would like to see the average books people read a year climb (see a piece I wrote last year about average number of books people read each year by clicking here.) I am, however, encouraged on Instagram by all the READERS and WRITERS I’ve become connected with over the last six months. People post books, book art, and their favorite stories in beautiful pictures. It’s been a whirlwind of likes and follows, but the people I’m connected with are…

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    On the Road to Event Planning

    October 16, 2015

    Prettiness & Priorities

    January 6, 2016

    Missing Downton Abbey? 10 Light Period Films to Help Fill The Void

    March 14, 2016
  • And Here’s to You, Mr. Robinson

    February 8, 2019 /

    Yesterday, we learned that Orioles great and Hall of Famer Frank Robinson had passed away. He was 83. I was lucky enough to get to know Frank during my time at the Orioles. His humor, willingness to be helpful, and energy was a positive force within the Orioles organization. When you learn someone has passed away, you take a moment to be pensive. To truly understand how quickly life goes by, and that a little appreciation for people, places, and things is important in life. If you’ve read my blog at any point in the past, you know that I write quite sentimentally about my time working in baseball. I…

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    What I’m Writing Now (or my current WIP)

    May 14, 2020

    Thankfulness, Doug Flutie, and The Power of Love

    November 19, 2015

    Podcast 17: The MFA Journey as a Writer (and a teacher of writing)

    May 27, 2020
  • My Books Are All Influenced by Maryland: #ReadLocalDC Blog Hop

    July 11, 2018 /

    *** Magical Maryland. That’s what I like to call it. Our state has a lot to offer people who like variety—the mountains to our west, the beaches to our east, the Chesapeake Bay, nearby Baltimore and Washington, D.C., theme parks and casinos, pretty state parks and delicious Maryland crabs, the picturesque and historic capital city of Annapolis, and numerous quaint, tucked away towns and cities with charms all their own. I’ve lived in Maryland since I was five. I grew up in Bowie and Annapolis. I went to college in Towson at Towson University. Along with my husband and children, we’ve lived in Baltimore City, Ellicott City, and Severna Park.…

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    Capturing Moments

    November 12, 2020

    Change

    October 6, 2015

    Writing About Women + Friendship in Little Milestones

    June 9, 2019
  • The Real People Who Have Inspired My Leading Men

    May 7, 2018 /

    As I did a few weeks ago, I thought I’d continue this series which was inspired by a fellow writer’s blog whereby he wrote a post about people who have inspired his characters along the way. I loved reading his insights and what informed his writing, so I’m going to continue doing so with people who have inspired some of my own characters in my novels. Again, I’ll pick three, one from each book. MICHAEL CONTELLI from BENEATH THE MIMOSA TREE When I was little and my grandmother and grandfather (Nanny and Poppy) lived in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, on Myrtle Avenue, I would regularly visit. We didn’t move from…

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    The Beginning of a New Novel…or Not. What I’m Working On????

    January 30, 2020

    Life Philosophies, Not Resolutions This Year

    December 31, 2018

    Launching LITTLE MILESTONES Today, my newest novel…

    October 22, 2019
  • The Real People Who Have Inspired Some of My Characters

    April 10, 2018 /

    I was reading a fellow writer’s blog today, and he wrote a post about people who have inspired him along the way: both those who have encouraged him to write and those who have inspired the characters he has written. It was enlightening to read his thoughts, so I decided to share what has inspired some of my own characters in my novels. We’ll start with three today, one from each book. VIVI IN BENEATH THE MIMOSA TREE Some of you may know that the character of Vivi in Beneath the Mimosa Tree was inspired by my own grandmother, Eleanor, who passed away when I was in my twenties. I…

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    Podcast #3 – Writing the Preliminary Synopsis

    January 20, 2020

    Coping with the Loss of Downton Abbey

    March 6, 2016

    After I Was Dead — Friday Fiction

    January 29, 2016
  • Why I Write ‘feel good’ Novels…A Kid Off to College…and Two Queens

    February 28, 2018 /

    WHY I WRITE ‘FEEL GOOD’ NOVELS Yesterday, when author and television personality Rick Steves spoke to students about the passion he has for his job, he mentioned the word positivity–that he considers himself a positive person, and his approach to life is that of a positive person. He and I are alike in that regard. Despite a small snippet of time during my 52-years of life when I took a little bit of an Eyeore-ish turn, I like to think that I look at the world through a lens that is mostly positive. No one is perfect, however, and I have to catch myself every now and then when I…

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    Coming Up With A Book Title

    January 6, 2019

    Little Milestones Trailer – My New Book

    January 15, 2020

    10 Lessons 2015 Can Teach Us in 2016

    December 31, 2015
  • Tips To Get You Started on Your Novel

    January 28, 2018 /

    When people ask me how to begin writing a novel, this is what I usually tell them, along with “believe in yourself” and “go for it.” For an upcoming artist collaboration and exhibit scheduled at our university for this Thursday, I drafted a little infographic. This infographic includes tips about writing novels and some of the things that I’ve been taught over the years, along with what I’ve gained from the experience of writing three indie novels. William Zinsser, in his famous book On Writing Well, says it best about writing: “Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time,…

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    March 20, 2020

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