Marci Lynn McGuinness wrote and published five books, a screenplay and designed a tourism map this past year (Autumn 2008 - Autumn 2009). The author/publisher moved back to the mountains of Southwestern Pennsylvania from the Chesapeake Bay where she had worked and resided for 5 years, until September 2007.

During her "Bay Days" she worked as Columnist and Account Executive for Spin Sheet Magazine (www.spinsheet.com) before accepting the Marketing Director and then Managing Editor positions at Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers (www.cmptp.com).

McGuinness is best known in Pennsylvania for her series of Yesteryear books, her Yesteryear Press magazine, and the many books and publications she produced while raising her twin daughters along the Youghiogheny River in Ohiopyle (www.ohiopyle.info).

She graduated from Connellsville Senior High and, as stated in the 1973 yearbook, she became a publisher when she "grew up."

McGuinness and her Jack Russell Terrier, Jake, hike in Ohiopyle, swim at the swimming hole (in season), and are very happy to be back home in the mountains among family and old (well, you ARE!) friends. She enjoys escaping to the Florida beaches during the winter, though!

Herald Standard Weekend Magazine article 11/21/08:
http://www.howyouspinit.com/content/article/579.html