Mindie Burgoyne, a native Marylander lived most of her life between Baltimore and Washington DC, but moved to Maryland’s rural Eastern Shore seven years ago.

She was first published at age 16 when she was contracted to compose a musical score for a 20 minute feature film promoting Bellingrath Gardens in Mobile, Alabama. Music from that score was featured on NBC’s The Today Show and also used in the America Junior Miss pageants.

As a trained musician, Mindie spent twenty years serving as a Music Director in several Maryland churches prior to her move to the Eastern Shore. Her involvement in church ministry inspired her to compose liturgical music, and to begin freelance writing about pastoral ministry.

In 1994, Mindie started a publishing company – Trinity Music, Inc. - that published liturgical music, primarily for the Catholic Church. In 1995 her company purchased the assets of The Pastoral Press, a Washington, DC book publishing house that published theological and scholarly texts.

Once Trinity Music and The Pastoral Press were merged, Mindie Burgoyne became the only woman publisher of a sizeable Catholic publishing house in the United States. As publisher she led an effort to get ten out of print top sellers back in the market, and then moved on to acquire new works from notable U. S. theological scholars. The publishing house expanded from U.S. markets into Europe, Asia and Africa. Mindie later sold the company to Oregon Catholic Press (OCP), who has continued to grow and expand the company and become a world leader in Catholic publishing.

After selling the publishing company, Mindie continued to work as a freelance writer and business consultant before moving to the Eastern Shore in 2002. In 2006 she wrote Snow Hill, a book charting the history of a small town in Maryland, for Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series. In 2007 she wrote a second book for Arcadia Publishing covering the history of Easton, Maryland entitled Easton, Then and Now.

In 2007, Mindie served as an advisor to National Geographic Television Network for an episode of Is it Real? The episode was based on an article she wrote about a haunted house in Snow Hill, MD.

Her writing has been published in Music News, Metropolitan Magazine, Coastal Living, the Daily Times, the Star Democrat, the Worcester County Messenger, the Somerset Herald, and Clever Magazine. She has discussed her writing appearing on local television and radio, and Internet radio stations, the The Edge - a national radio and television station focusing unexplained.