We Are New Bay Books—
A partner publisher connecting readers and writers over good stories.
We publish and sell a growing list: Anthology • Fiction • Gardening • How to • Narrative reporting • Memoir • Narrative nonfiction • Poetry • and more
Authors
Just Out
Carol McCabe Booker, author of the best-selling Waterman's Widow, is back with the true tale of what the Baltimore Sun called: "One of the most revolting murders in the annals of crime." Available now.
New Release
Jefferson Holland gives readers a treasure of getaway hikes in his just-published, 358-paged book of "enlightening walks with Millie the pooch." Find it here.
Out for the Holidays
Carol McCabe Booker's success continues. Waterman's Widow, top row second from left, one of three Booker titles at New Bay Books, made the Top Ten in Calvert Library's most checked out nonfiction in 2024. Read about Booker's latest, The Farmer's Wife, above. See what else folks in Calvert County and surrounds are reading.
Poet and author George Miller's latest work features stories gleaned from riding a commuter train to and from Washington for 30 years. So it figures that Miller, an economist, would find a train in which to read from his new book, Loaded for Bear, and sign copies for his audience. On our blog.
And read what he has to say about trains and writing in an author Q&A.
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New Chapter in a Mysterious Death
On her book tour, New Bay Books' Sandra Olivetti Martin gets a bonus at her reading in southern Illinois: New clues for enabling an epilogue to The Untimely Death of James Smith, a story in her book, Fire at the Stymie Club, Stories From the Mississippi River to Chesapeake Bay. On the blog.
What do you do when you find out your boss at the record store is the Bethesda bomber? And your mother keeps showing up at Buckingham Palace. If you're Randy Estabrook and you've seen crazy in your life, you write a book about it. Order now.
Holiday '24
New Bay Books' Sandra Olivetti Martin and Bill Lambrecht, right, at Gridiron Club Winter Dinner in Washington with friends Jon Sawyer, founder of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and author Kem Sawyer.
For the Fisher in the Family
Subtitled 52 Lessons from 50 Years of Angling on the Chesapeake, Dennis Doyle’s book is drawing early praise.
“Dennis loves to fish and these stories and insights from a lifetime of fishing are a delightful reminder that he knows what he’s talking about.”said Al Todd, formerly head of Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.
Review Corner
Kirkus Reviews Fire at the Stymie Club: "Absorbing and Fitting Tribute to a Career Journalist"
More on the blog.
Most popular
Carol McCabe Booker digs into an enduring mystery from Maryland history: Who killed waterman Littleton Condiff?
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Levin J Marvel Disaster Relived
At Calvert Marine Museum, a survivor, heroes and experts gathered to recall a Chesapeake tragedy. Is a theatrical presentation next?
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Elisavietta Ritchie: 1932-2025. On the blog.
Acclaim for Shelden's Art
Hulbert Footner Revival
A century ago, Hulbert Footner was a writing machine — when not tearing around the mud tracks of southern Maryland in his Buick or paddling the Patuxent River near Solomons, where the Canadian-born, internationally acclaimed author settled.
In a stunningly prolific career, Footner wrote more than 60 books, primarily in the adventure and detective fiction genres. Late in life, Footner produced deeply researched and thoroughly readable histories of southern Maryland's people and its waters.
One of those books, Rivers of the Eastern Shore, a compelling account of the early history and culture of a storied land, was recently re-released by Schiffer Books and is available at the Calvert County Historical Society.
The Society opened a Hulbert Footner Room at Linden, its nearly 200 year-old, Italianate headquarters, on Church Street in Prince Frederick.Visitors can absorb Footner’s history in a setting complete with writing desk, his typewriter, and memorabilia donated by his grandchildren. Hulbert Footner books can be bought, too. Read New Bay Books coverage.
Suzanne Shelden of Shelden Studios, partner of New Bay Books, was featured at Jo Fleming Contemporary Art in Annapolis with her painting Sunset at Cypress Swamp, 30 x 60" acrylic on canvas.
"You have two separate compositions that work perfectly together," Jo Fleming said in the reception.
Replied Shelden: "There are many sources of light coming in and they all have perspective. Mathematically precise perspective."
New Bay Books publisher Sandra Olivetti Martin observed: "Suzanne is mathematically precise in all she does and multiple sources of light."
Rains disappeared and crowds turned out at Key School in Annapolis to meet some three dozen national and regional authors. Kathy Bergren Smith, above left (Deadly Gamble), told the shocking true tale of the Chesapeake's worst sailing disaster.
Jim Toomey (A Family Afloat), pictured above with sailing aficionado Jib Edwards, reminded his deck-shoed audience that yes, you can indeed drop everything and sail for two years in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, which he writes about. Kathy Best pictured above with her sous chef, New Bay Books partner Bill Lambrecht, not only taught her audience to cook Shrimp & Grits but served heaping bowls of it. The recipe comes from Soups, Stews & Stories: An Investigative Reporter's Quest to Nourish the Soul, co-authored with her late husband, Andy Schneider.
Bay Weekly Beginning
At sold-out Captain Avery Museum, New Bay Books' Sandra Olivetti Martin described what it took to put out the newspaper her family started (and sold) and thanked the people (and dogs) who helped. On our blog.
The Only Abe Lincoln Story You'll Ever Need to Read
An expert from the vortex of Lincoln Land answers all on our blog. And read Doug Kamholz's Miles With Moxie series at our Forum.
Soups, Stews & Stories
An Investigative Reporter's Global Quest to Nourish the Soul
Andrew Schneider gathered recipes from exotic and everyday places in bringing back his Pulitzer Prize-winning stories. His wife and co-author, Kathleen Best, read excerpts at a Book Release party at National Park Seminary in Silver Spring, Md. Read about it on our blog or just buy the book and your roux will be rich and your sauces the talk of your 'hood.
From 'Boredom to Terror'
Syndicated cartoonist Jim Toomey, author of Sherman's Lagoon, tells a Captain Avery Museum luncheon crowd about global sailing and live-aboard exploits featured in his A Family Afloat, the book. Our interview with Toomey
Our Books
A Little About Us
What’s a writer without a reader but a voice calling out in the wilderness?
What’s a reader without a writer?
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There is no such thing. Uniting writers and readers over good stories (poems, too) is the mission of New Bay Books, a new publishing house for Chesapeake Country. To that mission, my New Bay Books partner (and husband) William Lambrecht and I bring more than a quarter century of experience.
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The mission inspired us to join with son Alex Knoll to create New Bay Times newspaper back in 1993 and to sustain a journalism enterprise for twenty-seven buffeting years. New Bay Times became Bay Weekly, and was sold to Chesapeake Bay Media in 2020. The mission — finding, developing, editing, publishing and distributing good stories for good reading — continues with New Bay Books.
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What does our mission mean for you?
To readers, New Bay Books brings good books …
To writers, New Bay Books brings opportunity ...