Book and App Portfolio

Sort through Music City’s many melodies to hit the right tune in Nashville with the Nashville ★ Essential ★ Guide. This recently updated digital iPhone/iPad app is jam-packed with essential details, little-known facts and more than 900 helpful images to help you figure out what you want to see, hear and do while in town. It has been featured on About.com’s culinary travel page.

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The Little Black Book series was selected as Booklist’s Best Travel Series of the Year, 2008. Margaret’s Chicago volume follows the successful formula for this series, offering 215 pages of Windy City secrets. An updated edition was published in 2011. (She also recently updated the New York volume for 2012.)

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Chicago is an urban environment that is easily accessible to wide open spaces, but with more than one million pooches in the metro area, the Windy City’s pups can be found everywhere in the city limits, from pub patios to in horse-drawn carriages. While the stockyards may not be what they once were dogs, of course, love any place that is famous for big slabs of meat. An updated, second edition of The Dog Lover’s Companion to Chicago, covering new dog parks and city regulations, was published in January 2007.

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From BFFs to frenemies, from The One Who Got Away to The One You Wish Would Go Away, P.S.: What I Didn’t Say covers all areas of female friendships. Margaret’s essay, “On Exes and Thin Mints,” appears in this anthology. Read more on the book’s blog.

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Margaret is not a cat lover, but as her essay, “Cat Trap Fever,” shows, she’s not immune to the needs of the feline set.

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Thirty-five experienced editors, designers, and consultants, all at the top of their fields, present their insights on the goals and process of magazine design. Margaret’s essay on shopping magazines is one of the chapters.

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They may be known as man’s best friend, but as the writers in this poignant, funny, and dramatic collection know, there’s no gender divide when it comes to canines. Margaret’s essay on how her dog taught her to garden, “Deadwood vs. Dogwood,” appears in this anthology. An abridged version of the essay appeared in Midwest Home magazine.

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One of a groundbreaking series of guidebooks for vegetarian and vegan diners, this volume covers meat-free eating in the city and suburbs.

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