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Chronicler …Editor …Teacher …

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• Former Bay Weekly editor and publisher

For 28  years, I brought the stories of Chesapeake Country to the pages of our independent, family-owned news and feature weekly. Since January, 2020, Bay Weekly has been in the capable hands of Chesapeake Bay Media.

 
 
•  Journalist

I've discovered, reported and written thouands of  stories chronicling four decades of American history in the making

 
 
• Mentor: teacher and editor

I've guided thousands to fluency, hundreds to publication

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• Memoirist

Recently I've  turned my mastery of the craft to recounting family history as narrative for a magazine article  and a book in progress.

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Read my recent piece in Kentucky Monthly -- Am Liking This Life Just Fine -- based on a young soldier's letters 100 years ago to ,y cousin Cora, a country school teacher in Calhoun County, Illinois.

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What's New —New Bay Books. Our brand new publishing house, bringing together Chesapeake Bay readers and writers. Coming soon: Arpeggio of Redwings by Audrey Scharmen, A collection of sixty encounters with Chesapeake Bay nature to take as seasonal tonics to refresh your notion of what kind of place this world is.
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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 ...

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