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I have lived all my life in Connecticut except for the two years I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. Presently, I write from my crow's nest in East Haven, breaking periodically to ride the rails from New Haven to New York where I do enjoy the city lights. I'm married and have two children, Jene, an RN at Yale-New Haven's transplant unit, and Jere, who works with the elderly in New York. He has a three-year-running blog: letsgosox.blogspot.com Not only does he cover Red Sox lor...[more]
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What I really like to do is walk the Long Island Sound shoreline that stretches beneath my windows. I like to climb the rocky outcroppings, kayak the waters, collect sea glass, watch the ospreys and cormorants and terns, and mostly, jump in on a hot summer day. I also like to travel to other shorelines and do the exact same thing from Kona to Punta del Este. The best shoreline of all was the equatorial sea surrounding the base of Mt. Cameroonan, an active volcano where I had the good fortune to spend two years serving as a Peace Corps volunteer.
My other major interest is the Boston Red Sox. I'm a third generation Sox fan.
I have categories of favorite books: favorite contemporary books; favorite mysteries; favorite classics; favorite translations; favorite children's books. But the following are books are the ones that made me want to write books of my own. They are the books that changed my life.
THE BEDSIDE ESQUIRE, 1936,SILVER PENNIES,
BAMBI,CHRIST IN CONCRETE, THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL (Anne Frank),A TALE OF TWO CITIES,
CATCH-22, Z,
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET,THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP
I'm a sixties girl. Leading into the decade I loved Bill Haley and the Comets and then onto Elvis, the Beatles, Aretha, the Stones, Jim Morrison and the Doors, the Zombies.
The titles of my Poppy Rice mysteries are three sixties classics.
Our local movie theatre, The Elm, in West Harford, CT, babysat for me every Saturday afternoon. For fifty cents we got a double feature, the news (The Eyes and Ears of the World), cartoons and a follow-the-bouncing- ball sing-along. I loved all Laurel and Hardy, and Abbott and Costello movies, Cinderella, Marty, Tom Jones, Chinatown, Pulp Fiction
My favorite online magazine: peacecorpswriters.or g
My favorite blog: letsgosox.blogspot.c om
My favorite plays: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You In the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad, Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate
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The mother-son team, Jere Smith and yours truly, are happy to tell you that you can pre-order DIRTY WATER: A RED SOX MYSTERY on Amazon, or at any bookstore in town though probably in a more informal manner, like, call me when this book comes in! And they will. Here are a few of our early quotes: "DIRTY WATER" is like a David Ortiz at-bat with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth: Loaded with drama and suspense, the kind every Red Sox fan will enjoy. [Smith and Smith] provide a unique take on the 2007 championship season, weaving mystery around the mystique of Fenway Park. Score this one a hit." Jeff Goldberg, Red Sox beat reporter Hartford Courant "DIRTY WATER is an intricately plotted mystery speckled with the 2007 World Champion Red Sox and a backdrop of Fenway Park. What more could you want?" Karen E. Olson The Annie Seymour Mystery Series "Tirone Smith's latest mystery, written with her son Jere, features murder, blackmail, and baseball. The lively narrative expands to include the seamy underside of recruiting foreign ballplayers. Red Sox fans will appreciate the Smiths' unerring eye for detail--plus slugger David Ortiz makes more than a cameo appearance. The narrative coalesces in a finale as intense and satisfying as a Red Sox-Yankees September showdown."
Allan Wood BABE RUTH AND THE 1918 RED SOX "The Joy of Sox" blog
for the full schedule. Here's where I'll be joining some of my fellow contributors (we will attempt to read our three-minute pieces while hopefully maintaining a semblence of composure): June 16 at 7 PM BLUESTOCKINGS (a radical bookstore) 172 Allen St. New York, NY 212 777-6028 June 18 at 7 PM THE MUSEUM OF SEX 233 Fifth Avenue at 27th St. New York, NY 212 689-6337 June 23 at 7 PM REAL ART WAYS 56 Arbor St. Hartford, CT 860 232-1006 June 24 at 7 PM GREEN STREET ARTS CENTER 51 Green St. Middletown, CT 860 685-7860 June 26 at 7PM GRUB STREET, INC with FOUR STORIES BOOKS 160 Boylston Street Boston, MA 617 695-0075 And come September: September 16 at 7 PM KGB 85 E. 4th St. bet. 2nd and Bowery New York, NY 212 505-3360 Hope to see ya. (I'll be the writer wearing a poodle pink t-shirt that reads POW in candy-apple green.)
From my son Jere and me: We have a new publication date. DIRTY WATER should hit the bookstores by August, but the official date of birth is September 1. Our publisher wants to make sure the book is available when the reviews come out, hence, the move. Our review copies, which are about to make their way to media and reviewers have three great quotes on the back cover. Here they are:
"Tirone Smith's latest mystery, written with her son Jere, features murder, blackmail and baseball. The lively narrative expands to include the seamy underside of recruiting foreign ballplayers. Red Sox fans will appreciate the Smiths' unerring eye for detail--plus slugger David Ortiz makes more than a cameo appearance. The narrative coalesces in a finale as intense and satisfying as a Red Sox-Yankees September showdown." Allan Wood BABE RUTH AND THE 1918 RED SOX "The Joy of Sox" blog
"DIRTY WATER is a solid intricately plotted mystery speckled with the 2007 World Champion Red Sox and a backdrop of Fenway Park. What more could you want?" Karen C. Olson The Annie Symour Mysteries.
"DIRTY WATER is like a David Ortiz at-bat with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth: Loaded with drama and suspense, the kind that every Red Sox fan will enjoy. Mary-Ann Tirone Smith and Jere Smith provide a unique take on the 2007 championship season, weaving mystery around the mystique of Fenway Park. Score this one a hit." Jeff Goldberg, Red Sox beat writer, The Hartford Courant.
In the meantime, Jere will keep everyone posted on his blog, "A Red Sox Fan From Pinstripe Territory," letsgosox.blogspot.com
› See all posts in Mary-Ann Tirone Smith's Amazon blog
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