Upcoming LUMINA Events

August 21- Wednesday at 7 pm - Park Road Books in Charlotte, NC

August 25 - Sunday from 6-9 pm - Lumina Daze at the Blockade Runner in Wrightsville Beach, NC

October 5 - Saturday - Ol' Front Porch Music Festival in Oriental, NC

October 19 - Saturday - Valle Country Fair, Valle Crucis, NC

November 2 - Saturday - Persimmon Festival, Colfax, NC

November 10 - Sunday from 11-4 MADE 4 the Holidays at the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market, 501 Yanceyville St., Greensboro, NC 27405

December 7 - Saturday from 10-3 - Holiday Market sponsored by the St. Francis Day School, 3506 Lawndale Dr., Greensboro, NC 27408

December 8 - Sunday from 11-4 MADE 4 the Holidays at the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market, 501 Yanceyville St., Greensboro, NC 27405

To order your autographed copies of LUMINA, or to request an author visit, please visit the website at www.TheOneNovel.com.

Looking for LUMINA?

You are invited to the LUMINA Book Launch!

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 5:30 pm

St. Francis Episcopal Church Parish Hall

3506 Lawndale Drive, Greensboro, NC 27408

Bring a friend, invite your book club!

Wear your shagging shoes!

RSVP to mflinn56@gmail.com by March 27, 2019

Here is a list of other signings and bookstores where LUMINA is sold:

April 5-7, 2019: The Azalea Festival Street Fair

Front Street, Wilmington, NC 

Friday from 6-10 pm, Saturday from 10 am - 6 pm, and Sunday, from 10 am-6 pm

Look for Mary Flinn's tent on Front Street near Cape Fear Community College

Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 3 pm - Book talk and signing at Sunrise Books

1101 N. Main St. Suite 202, High Point, NC 27262

Tuesday, April 16 at 7 pm - Book talk and signing at Barnes & Noble

3102 Northline Avenue, Friendly Center, Greensboro, NC 27408

Tuesday, May 7 at 7 pm - Book talk and signing at Scuppernong Books

304 S. Elm St., Greensboro, NC 27401

Saturday, May 18 at 2 pm - Book talk and signing at Barnes & Noble

6835 Conservation Way, Mayfaire Town Centre, Wilmington, NC 28405

Saturday, June 13 - Lumina Day at the Wrightsville Beach Museum of History

Explore Lumina "back in the day" spanning each decade from 1905 until 1973

Time TBA: games for kids, book talk, dance exhibitions, and refreshments at the newly restored 1924 Bordeaux Cottage on the museum site at 303 West Salisbury Street, Wilmington, NC 28480

LUMINA is proudly sold at these independent bookstores in North Carolina:

Scuppernong Books - Greensboro

Sunrise Books  - High Point

BookMarks - Winston-Salem

Quail Ridge Books - Raleigh

Park Road Books - Charlotte

Pomegranate Books - Wilmington

Old Books on Front Street in Wilmington

You may purchase autographed copies or request a visit by Mary Flinn at TheOneNovel.com

LUMINA Coming April 1 - No Fooling!

LUMINA will be released April 1. 

Please check back in March for more details. Copies will be available at TheOneNovel.com, Amazon, in Kindle and Nook formats, and in bookstores worldwide by special order.

“It was, after all, eight o’clock. We were perfect for four more hours.”

In the summer of 1928, Lumina, known as the “Palace of Light,” is only reachable from Wilmington, North Carolina by trolley car, where it occupies the entire southern tip of Wrightsville Beach. The grandest beach pavilion on the East Coast creates the backdrop for this fictional tale of young people falling in love—not only with each other but with Lumina itself, where everything is magic from eight until midnight on Saturday nights.

As twenty-year-old Kip Meeks writes in his opening letter to his college pal Perry, “Lumina is the great equalizer for young people who are out for a bit of fun and to celebrate the happiness of youth. The best of the bands come there to play for the summer and thousands of people from all walks of life—tourists and locals, middle-class and aristocrats alike, arrive to dance the evening away on a Saturday night. Many a romance has been born at Lumina, I’ll tell you.” Kip chronicles the summer in weekly letters to Perry, who is laid up in Pinehurst with a broken leg, while Kip’s seventeen-year-old sister Sylvie keeps a diary account of the same events—meeting an heiress with a secret, the jazz explosion, a new dance, and plenty of old front porch gossip—creating a compelling glimpse into two families’ lives.

Fast forward ninety years to the summer of 2018. While going through her late mother Sylvie’s possessions, Anne Borden Montgomery (known from the pages of Flinn’s A Girl Like That) discovers a manuscript that was never published, a novel, compiled from her mother’s diary and her uncle’s letters. AB shares the story on her own front porch with her eager friends, Mr. May, Elle, and Nate, who take turns reading the story aloud, finding interesting parallels in their own lives while becoming acquainted with "new" old friends.

Allegiance is Released

Allegiance, Mary Flinn's eighth novel is released. 

Set in Southern Pines, North Carolina, Allegiance is the story of two Army couples who live as best friends and neighbors off-post from Fort Bragg. The day before the men deploy to Afghanistan, Keri, wife of combat medic Logan Slater, overhears a secret she is not meant to know, which threatens to destroy all four friends. Her children, five-year-old Lacey and three-year-old Cole, hold her to her vow of friendship with neighbor Candy, and loyalty to their father, as she has taught them while explaining the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance.

“Mary Flinn’s Allegiance is a beautiful glimpse into the lives of characters so rich and authentic you feel every heartache, triumph, loss, and gain. A story of fidelity, heroism, friendship, and family, Flinn leaves you in complete bliss but still wanting more long after you’ve turned the last page.”

     — Sabrina Sells Stephens, author of Banker’s Trust and Canned Good

“Allegiance is the kind of novel that gets under your skin. Infidelity is not an easy or fun topic, but Mary Flinn turns it into a transformative lesson about love, honesty, patience, and understanding that supersedes the characters’ initial pain. I guarantee you will be stunned when all is revealed, and perhaps even a little emotionally healed.”

—   Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D. and award-winning author of Narrow Lives and The Best Place

“Cheers for Allegiance! A great work penned by a writer with an acute sense of social and emotional depth. This is a powerful story that quickly had me questioning my own humanity. This book is also a beacon of hope. Most of us have experienced the range of emotions woven into this story at one time or another. Keri and Logan’s journey is a roadmap showing all of us how to treat our fellow man. Mary Flinn at her finest!”

     —  A.W. Hammock, former U.S. Army Ranger and author of Night of the Hatchet

To order your autographed copies, return to the website, www.TheOneNovel.com and click on Buy the Book.

Fall 2016 Book Events for Mary Flinn

September 24 – Fall Cricket Craft Festival – Saturday 9am to 3pm

Cricket’s Nest Craft Shop

4401 Country Club Rd, Winston-Salem, NC 27104

Admission is free. Look for Two Broke Authors booth.

October 1 – Autumn Fest  - Saturday 9am to 4pm

Downtown Park, Southern Pines, NC

Admission is free. Look for Two Broke Authors booth.

October 15 – The Valle Country Fair – Saturday 9am to 4pm

NC Hwy 194 across from the Holy Cross Church, Valle Crucis, NC

Admission is free. Parking proceeds go to the church. Look for High Country Writers’ booth.

October 23 - Book Launch for Allegiance  - Sunday 3 to 5pm

St. Francis Episcopal Church, 3506 Lawndale Sr. Greensboro, NC

Free and open to the public.

October 28 & 29 – The Holly Jolly Craft Show

Cricket’s Nest Craft Shop

4401 Country Club Rd, Winston-Salem, NC 27104

Admission is free. Look for Two Broke Authors booth.

Friday from 9am to 6pm and Saturday from 9am to 4pm

November 5 – Gifts Galore Holiday Bazaar – Saturday 9am to 4pm

Memorial United Methodist Church

101 Randolph St, Thomasville, NC 27360

Free admission

November 10 - Book Signing at Swoozie's - Thursday 6pm to 8 pm
Shops at Friendly Center
Greensboro, NC 27410
15% of Swoozie's sales go to Outreach at St. Francis Episcopal Church

November 13 - MADE 4 the Holidays – Sunday 11am-4pm

Greensboro Farmers Curb Market, 501 Yanceyville St., Greensboro, NC 27405

Admission is free. Look for Two Broke Authors booth.

November 25-27 - Carolina Craftsmen’s Classic Christmas Craft Show

Greensboro Coliseum, 1921 West Gate City Blvd., Greensboro, NC 27403

November 25 Fri. (9am – 6pm)

November 26 Sat. (10am – 6pm)

November 27 Sun. (11am – 5pm)

Adults $8/Parking charges at Coliseum lot

December 3 - St. Francis Holiday Market – Saturday 10am to 3pm

St. Francis Episcopal Church, 3506 Lawndale Sr. Greensboro, NC

Free and open to the public. Hosted by St. Francis Day School.

December 4 MADE 4 the Holidays – Sunday 11am to 4 pm

Greensboro Farmers Curb Market, 501 Yanceyville St., Greensboro, NC 27405

Admission is free. Look for Two Broke Authors booth.