Mary T. McCarthy is the author of THE SCARLET LETTER SOCIETY (2014) and THE SCARLET LETTER SCANDAL (2015). Currently Senior Editor at SpliceToday.com, McCarthy's 20-year writing career includes the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, regional magazines (two as Editor) and newspaper humor columns. She founded pajamasandcoffee.com in 2008. She's blogged for Katie Couric and appeared on The Today Show, Huffington Post Live and Moms Get Real with JuJu Chang. An instructor at The Writer's Center in Washington, D.C., Mary lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore with her husband and four children, and often escapes on her kayak to go sea glass hunting while working on her third novel, THE SCARLET LETTER STORM.