"Road-trip-worthy" Boonsboro, Md., has "small-town flair" worthy of a spring drive "to a town that's also the base for a best-selling romance and thriller author who has put down roots, including an elegant inn for literary lovers," the Washington Post Magazine noted in a feature on author Nora Roberts, her husband, Bruce Wilder, and son Dan Aufdem-Brinke, who "are prominent business owners in Boonsboro. They employ some 100 people in a population of 3,460. The family's businesses include a craft brew pub, an arts and crafts gallery and the crown jewel, the Inn BoonsBoro."
Wilder operates Turn the Page Bookstore, which "features an excellent collection of Civil War-related books, novels by Roberts, as well as under her pen name J.D. Robb, and organic coffee drinks. Several book signings with Roberts and other nationally known writers are held each year and draw hundreds to the area."