The Proprietor and Publisher of Barefoot Bard Books, Maerwydd McFarland, is a voracious reader, lover of all things language, and a genuine bard with a lifetime of writing to her credit. Barefoot Bard Books, birthed in a brownstone on the Upper West Side, currently operates out of an old Victorian pile in bucolic Vermont, just on the edge of the Canadian border. But it is an idea untethered to place, a bookshop that tends to wander, a carefully curated collection of authors who write what they love.

Book by book, we set out on a long barefoot ramble.

Kick your shoes off, and welcome to the journey.

C.D. NOIR

C.D. Noir, native New Yorker, is addicted to murder mysteries, both writing and reading them. C.D. used to be a people person but gave that up for a reclusive life of imaginary gore, mayhem, gnarly puzzles and the quirky characters who unravel them. Mac Moynahan Times Square mysteries are glimpses of the grit and grime of C.D. Noir’s New York, where the good guys don’t always win, truth may not lead to justice, and solving crimes usually involves some borderline criminal activity.