• Review: Bachelor Buttons by Kathleen Maher

    Novella Summary: The daughter of immigrants who fled the Irish Potato Famine, Rose Meehan longs for a better life than the tenements of New York City. Courted by two men–a young doctor who represents material security, and a poor violin instructor…

  • Guest Post: The Battle of New York City

    As a New Yorker, author Kathleen L. Maher takes great interest in the history of her state’s participation in the Civil War. So I asked her to provide some background into the incident she uses for her novella, Bachelor Buttons,…