Professional writer Mary McCarthy has over 15 years of experience in magazine, newspaper and online feature writing. Credits include Victorian Homes magazine, The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun and Philadelphia Inquirer, and a number of regional publications. Online work includes Feature Writer for Suite101.com (12 million monthly readers), associatedcontent.com, ehow.com, Celebrations.com and others. McCarthy owns and operates a popular personal humor blog www.pajamasandcoffee.com as well as other websites, including Creative Holiday Celebrations and Creative Halloween. She is the author of the books Adult Halloween Parties and Cape May for All Seasons. She's a mother of four children ranging in age from fifteen to three and lives in a spooky-looking 1881 Second Empire Victorian house which undergoes perpetual restoration on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.