Shore Publications - Reading is Power
Book and Map Publisher
Shore Publications will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2011. (Formerly Backwoods Books).
Marci Lynn McGuinness, Publisher/Author/Historian, will also celebrate 50 years of writing. Her first story, written at 6 years old, is gone, but the fire to create with words grows daily. Today she is adapting three of her books to film, all based in the Laurel Highlands.
S.P. publishes McGuinness' books, those of other authors, the annual Around Ohiopyle Map, a  monthly newsletter and coupons.
McGuinness speaks to groups and schools and on radio and television on a variety of subjects stemming from her books, the publishing industry, and life as a creative entity.

MEDIA KIT

McGuinness Interviewed on Las Vegas Talk Radio August 28 - Dr. Peter Shield's World of Unexplained Mysteries Show 10-11pm. Listen Online at: www.klav1230am.com. Call in toll free: 866-820-5528. Listen to the interview anytime at: www.vegasmysteries.com
Dave & Dave Show - McGuinness recently filmed with Dave Crawley for a 1/2 hour feature on Farmington, PA. The show will begin airing in November on WQED.


Messa
ge of the Sacred Buffalo is McGuinness' 25th Book
Click the cover for info and to order. Now available on Kindle.


Recent Releases

   
     
A Sad farewell to Butch Lupinetti of Smack Your Lips BBQ.

McGuinness Preserves SW PA History...

McGuinness' "Speed Kings" film adaptation:

Genre: Action/Drama/Historical

 

Title: Speed Kings

 

Log Line: Charlie Johnson charms the money out of Universal Films President Carl Laemmle and Henry Ford in 1916, to build the country’s greatest auto racing board track. After seven years of fame and fortune, Johnson flees to Cuba with the proceeds, only to return to face George Titlow, his early mentor, at the 1940 opener of the new Uniontown Speedway, causing Titlow’s demise.

 

Contact: Marci Lynn McGuinness marci@ohiopyle.info

 

Marci Lynn McGuinness is the author of Yesteryear at the Uniontown Speedway

© Shore Publications, 1996; third printing, 2008) and 24 other books.

Speed Kings is the film adaptation of the book. 

Recent reviews by: Hemming Motor News, the Jaguar Journal, and the Vette Gazette.

 

Note: The Titlow and Summit Hotels, and the Stone house, where the Speed Kings played, are still in operation and amenable to filming. Coastal Lumber Company runs a large sawmill next to the empty meadow where the board track once rocked. The story takes place at these sites, within a 5-mile radius.

 

Incentives: Southwestern Pennsylvania is an economical and scenic region. The Pennsylvania Film Commission offers a 25% tax credit to movies spending over 60% of their budget in the state. Contact: pghfilm@earthlink.com or 412-261-2744.

 

Speed Kings, is registered with the Writer’s Guild and www.inktip.com.


More SW PA History Books by McGuinness...

Yesteryear in Ohiopyle, Volume I
Yesteryear in Ohiopyle, Volume II
Yesteryear in Ohiopyle, Volume III
Yesteryear in Masontown
Yesteryear in Smithfield and Point Marion
Stone House Legends & Lore

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on the books and/or title links above to order online.
They are also ALL available from www.amazon.com

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Books available at these stores
KINDLE - Big Laurel Rising & Message of the Sacred Buffalo are now available on KINDLE!

COMING Fall 2010
Native Woody Landscape and Restoration Plants of the Eastern United States by Michael Dorn

COMING 2011

I Inhaled, The First 55 Years by Marci Lynn McGuinness

Natural Realities, Second Edition by Marci Lynn McGuinness

Around Ohiopyle Map 2011


Tribune Review Article 8-1-10:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/fayette/s_692574.html

Live & Visit Magazine, Summer 2010 issue:
http://www.mygazines.com/title/4028


McGuinness signs books at Florida Institute of Technology 4-2-10, for "Writing Women Back into History" day. Photo by Paulette KingMorin www.babystepmethod.com

  


Above: Marci McGuinness speaks with Dorothy H. Dull at History Day in Ohiopyle, July 22 '09. Sponsored by the Trail Towns Program, McGuinness talked to the group about Ohiopyle's history. The Ohiopyle State Park showed the new film, Ohiopyle - A Brief History. Photo by Ed Cope. Haze McGuinness, seated.

I hope you enjoy the books & map as much as I enjoy bringing them to you.
Author/Publisher Marci Lynn McGuinness

 

Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania offers travelers outdoor fun in a mountain paradise that has a water fall as the center piece of the village. Miles and miles of hiking and bicycling trails white water rafting and kayaking in the "Yough," trout fishing and just plain relaxing on a river rock can be experienced just a few miles from: Frank Lloyd Wright's
 Fallingwater, Kentuck Knob, & Duncan House;  Nemacolin WoodlandsSeven Springs  & Hidden Vally Resorts and the Yough Lake.
Enjoy the Youghiogheny River.
It is a gift.

Shore Publications, 145 River Street, Adah, PA 15410

Marci McGuinness, Publisher
  shorepublications@yahoo.com

www.ohiopyle.info is designed and published by Shore Publications
Marci McGuinness, Publisher
Check out more Shore Publications web sites:
www.uniontownspeedway.com

www.sacredbuffalos.com

www.benderspitstop.com
www.titlowtavern.net



Member of:

Western Pennsylvania Press Club

Fayette County Chamber of Commerce

Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau

 New York Center for Independent Publishers





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