MaryPat Hyland


Biography

Mary Pat Hyland is an award-winning, former newspaper journalist who writes mainstream novels and short stories set in upstate New York. Her works include the chicklit Maeve Kenny series: “The Cyber Miracles”; “A Sudden Gift of Fate”; and "A Wisdom of Owls". She has also written “3/17”, a St. Patrick’s Day riff on Dante’s “Inferno” and a Sept. 11-inspired suspense novel, "The Terminal Diner". Her work is inspired by authors such as Eudora Welty, Anne Tyler, John Irving and Flannery O’Connor and influenced by her Irish-American heritage. Hyland’s interests include the Irish language, gardening and cooking (yes, that includes pies).

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The Cyber Miracles    by MaryPat  Hyland
Price: $4.99 USD. 55270 words. Published on February 18, 2012. Fiction.

Maeve Kenny loses her bright Manhattan career and soap star boyfriend suddenly through a run of bad luck. She's forced to move back to her parents' upstate N.Y. home where she befriends their quirky, computer-hacking neighbor, Andy. When he creates a website to help her get re-employed, Maeve tells him she needs a miracle. Who would have thought the whole world would be watching when it arrived?
3/17    by MaryPat  Hyland
Price: $4.99 USD. 64380 words. Published on August 13, 2011. Fiction.

In this loose parody of Dante's "Inferno," four Irish traditional musicians get lost in the backwoods of upstate New York the week before St. Patrick's Day. On the journey, the band descends through nine hellish circles of American-style March 17th revelry: Step-dancing princesses. Bobbing shamrock headbangers. Green beer bacchanals. Shillelagh-wavin' geezers. O'Fun, not!
The Terminal Diner    by MaryPat  Hyland
Price: $4.99 USD. 61740 words. Published on August 5, 2011. Fiction.

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"Men like pie." Elaina Brady's mother shared that bit of wisdom with her shortly before hitching a ride West with a trucker from Missoula. Elaina takes on her mother's job making pies at the family diner—a dull existence. Then on the eve of Sept. 11, people she meets expand her horizons, inspiring her to be impulsive like her mother. Will she survive the consequences of her actions?

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