CAROLYN’S BIO

Currently my writing focuses on a historical romance novel based on real-life characters unearthed through genealogical research. Its settings include Revolutionary France; Alexandria, Virginia; and the New England coast—particularly, Lamoine, Maine. Its time frame is 1785-1845. The historical background involves the Scioto (Ohio) Land Grant, a sub-grant of the Ohio Land Grant, and land grants in Maine. Posts of this work-in-progress are located at www.carolyncholland.wordpress.com in the category HISTORIC NOVEL. This site is being set up at the beginning of February, 2008, so watch for future posts.

My paid writing credits extend back to 1990. I’ve been a freelance photojournalist at the Greenville Record-Argus; the Meadville Tribune; the Greensburg Tribune-Review (the Fay-West, Ligonier-Latrobe and Focus Magazine sections); the Ligonier Echo and the Latrobe Bulletin.

I am published in the Westmoreland County Historical Society magazine; Penned from the Heart, Vols. 9 & 10; Entourage; Farm Show; the Lincoln Highway Journal; Devo’zine; and Virtue Magazine.

During my first year of working with blogs I managed www.ProBlogs.com/beanerywriters, the site for Volume 1 of the Beanery Online Literary Magazine (it ended its first year with 48,000 hits) and its archive site, www.ProBlogs.com/CarolynCHolland (which ended three months with 7,000 hits), and the Laurel Mountain Borough (in southwestern Pennsylvania) online newsletter, which is now located at www.laurelmountainboro.wordpress.com .

Photo illustrations for my posts are located at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolyncholland

Visitors are welcome to comment on items and to submit writing

 

E-mail me at beaneryblog@yahoo.com or beanerywriters@yahoo.com .