Simple quest to find enough lost Spanish treasure (in the waters between Florida and Cuba) to offer Mariah a secure future quickly becomes an insatiable lust for gold. They are kindred spirits, each out of step with the society into which they were born, and each finding total acceptance in the other. Sam comes to the New World from Plymouth, England, to start a new life, and onĬape Cod, in Massachusetts, he meets Mariah.

Tradition says it's his love for her that first leads him on his quest for

The are joined forever in rich Cape Cod legend and in tales of the sea. It's not Sam Bellamy's story alone that survives the years, but Mariah And I live with a friendly, polite, perfect-New England-type-ginger-tabby cat named 'Sam', after Have a great 32-year-old son, Andrew, who's a para-medic and a talented writer and musician. I've been a widow for twenty-three years I Play folk guitar in an 7-member folk music group called Just Plain Folk and we perform locally I knit I lead a weekly writer's group belong toĪ fun book club and I' m an Arts and Letters member of the Cape Cod Branch of the National League of American Pen Women for which I am serving as vice president. Wash-a-shore the founding host of two literary groups: ABITH ( A Book in the Hand) and Shelf Space I I'm a native New Yorker and genuine Cape Cod

It had somehow expanded to include the sheer joy of using the right words to build sentences, paragraphs, pages, Limited to imagining another world and being other people. Too, the manuscript went through several incarnations while I decided what it was going to be when it finally 'grew up.' During this process I discovered the purpose of writing wasn't at all It took seven years to write (it was a 'hole and corner' operation because I worked full time) and then, TRADE, my historical novel, was published in September 2009. On calligraphy, watercolor, and portrait commissions. During my forty-plus-year career, I've been on staff as a carpet deigner for Stark Carpet Corp., in NYC, and Asmara, Inc., in Boston įreelanced had one-man shows and been in group shows (watercolors) designed and painted theater sets did magazine (editorial) and kid's book illustration designed book covers and took Generation professional and a legacy graduate of Parsons School of Design in NYC (1970), with a major in graphics and illustration.

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