Marianne H. Donley, Featured Author
October 14, 2026 by marianne h donley in category Featured Author of the Month tagged as Bethlehem Writers Group LLC, Celebrating, Featured Author of the Month, Marianne H. Donley, Tomato Blight
Featuring Marianne H. Donley
Marianne H. Donley makes her home in Pennsylvania with her husband, son, and a very very active dog. She is a member of Bethlehem Writers Group, The Charmed Connection, Sisters in Crime, and The Guppies. When Marianne isn’t working on A Slice of Orange or Bethlehem Writers Roundtable, she might be writing short stories, funny romances, or quirky murder mysteries, but this could be a rumor. She also could be knitting.
“Tomato Blight,” Marianne’s short story in Celebrating, introduces detective Eleanor Reed as she solves a murder despite being haunted by the victim’s ghost.
About Celebrating
In May, 2006, what would become the Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC, met for the first time in Bethlehem, PA, with four people in attendance. In the twenty years since, the group has grown from a fledgling critique group to a robust community of writers and publishers, offering not just a quarterly online literary journal (Bethlehem Writers Roundtable found at https://bwgwritersroundtable.com), an annual writing contest (Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Short Story Award), but also several award-winning anthologies, among our many publications.
To celebrate our twentieth anniversary, we bring you highlights from each of our eight “Sweet, Funny, and Strange®” anthologies of short stories from our varied, award-winning authors.Starting with holiday stories from our debut anthology, A Christmas Sampler (2009), we are happy to present touching, hilarious, and thought-provoking tales. From a second anthology, Once Around the Sun (2013), are tales for all seasons, followed by, food-related stories from A Readable Feast (2015). You will find children’s stories from Once Upon a Time (2017), then tales of the paranormal from Untethered (2018), animal tales from Fur, Feathers, and Scales (2020), mysteries from An Element of Mystery (2022), and more holiday stories from Season’s Readings (2024).
So, come celebrate with us as you peruse these pages that are sure to bring you a smile, perhaps a tear or two, and a whole lot of fun, with best wishes to you from the authors of the Bethlehem Writers Group.
Other Anthologies with Marianne’s stories.
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