Paper Bridges Books announced the publishing of historical novel, Hearthstones: Keep the Home Fires Burning, by local writers MaryLee Marilee and Sheryl Drake Lawrence, which relates a story of survival, healing and triumph of the human spirit, set in early 1800s settlement in the Mohican area of the Ohio Frontier.
Now available online as an e-book, the first volume in the Hearthstones series begins the story of plucky frontier women, and the men around whom their lives revolve, as they support one another through lifes calamitous hardships.
Former Graphic Publications feature writer and humor columnist MaryLee Marilee (15 years writing as The Crackpot) now focuses her talent on writing books.
She said, Wed love to see women of today glean hope and inspiration from our heroic sisters of the past.
Co-author Sheryl Lawrence said, We encourage and motivate one another at a time in history just as challenging in its own way, as that of our frontier sisters.
Both Ashland University graduates, Lawrence and Marilee met in a creative writing class nearly 30 years ago and havent stopped talking – or writing – since. Theyve dedicated their first book to professor and mentor, the late Dr. Richard A. Snyder.
For more information about Hearthstones go to www.Hearthstones.net. Paper and print version will be available in early 2011.
