Lisa Greiner’s guest blog takes us back to those first readings of Emilie Loring’s books and shares the enthusiasm that drove her to learn more about their author. How old were you when you read your first Emilie Loring book? Do you remember which one it was? Was it set in the big glittering city of … More Guest Post: I wanted to be the heroine in her novels
Graduation time is near, a natural time of reflection and appreciation. Mary Ellen Chase of Blue Hill, Maine wrote that she—and Emilie Loring—belonged to “the last of the many generations who will have studied the classics as a matter of course.” And this, mind you, was in grammar school. Beyond grammar school, they learned languages, … More From Inspiring Books Come Worthy Thoughts
Yesterday, I spent the day querying literary agents, telling them about my book, trying to capture in one page the essence of the last fourteen years’ evolution of this project. It’s impossible. There are too many reasons, provocations, insights and experiences that one has on the way to a goal. And there is more to it … More Make a little turn, and optimism fills the sails
Blue Hill views Curiously, Blue Hill mountain cannot be seen from the village of Blue Hill, which is not quite at its feet but about a mile away, at the head of the Bay. Blue Hill is easily seen from almost everywhere else, though. It’s unmistakable from the water, a blue-green, solitary mountain, or monadnock (a new … More Hiking is the Best Way to See Blue Hill
Acadia National Park is on Mount Desert Island, across the bay from the village of Blue Hill. You can see it from atop Blue Hill, and the outline of the “sleeping giant” is easily visible from the outer bay. If you haven’t yet been to our easternmost national park, put it on your bucket list. … More Acadia National Park: A Jewel Down East
Emilie read a lot—and not just casually, but critically. She reviewed children’s books for her father when she was young enough to sit on the publisher’s desk, she reviewed her siblings’ plays in her twenties and thirties, and when she began to write in her forties, she wrote book reviews first. So who were the … More Who were Emilie Loring’s favorite authors?
It’s the summer of 1936. The Great Depression lingers, and Lissa’s Aunt Hetty has left her a lighthouse–on its own island, no less–an ideal getaway for a fledgling writer. The rest of Aunt Hetty’s estate was left to Alexander “Lex” Carson. Lex arrives on his best friend’s yacht, ready to claim his inheritance, but he and Tod … More Romance and Intrigue Arrive on a Yacht
The Emilie Loring Collection 