Jo-Ann Farmer – A Day in the Life of a Coroner

Join us on November 11 for our guest speaker, Jo-Ann Farmer.

Be advised this is a very graphic presentation, and no one under the age of 18 will be allowed to attend.

Jo-Ann Farmer was elected Jefferson County Coroner in November 2022. Previously, she served as a Deputy Coroner for nearly 23 years, and the last 17 were as Chief Deputy Coroner. She earned “Advanced Coroner” designation in 2005 and achieved “Master Coroner” designation in 2011.

Jo-Ann is the keynote speaker for Bellarmine University several times per year, lecturing on Forensics, and speaks to high schools and community organizations on Foresics as well. She conducted a six-week Forensic seminar at the Louisville Free Public Library and two full-day seminars at the University of Central Florida.

A graduate of the University of Kentucky Nursing Program, Jo-Ann’s nursing experience includes: Charge Nurse of Trauma/Emergency Room, Labor and Delivery, Coronary Care and Intensive Care Units in Lexington, Covington and Louisville.

She is a native Louisvillian, a wife, a mother of two adult sons, and “Mimi” to two young grandsons.

Note: At the request of Ms. Farmer, this meeting will not be recorded.

When: Saturday, November 11, 2023

Time: 11am-1pm

Where:

Central State Campus, Bingham Building

10511 La Grange Road

Louisville, KY 40223

Directions on the campus:

Go in the main entrance and veer right.

There will be a building on the left with mosaic tile on it.

This is the Bingham Building.

We need to wait outside the entrance until the entire group has arrived.

Google Map

 

Member News – November

Elaine Munsch

 

Elaine (aka E.M.) Munsch and Lynn Slaughter will be signing books at:

The Bards and Friends Area Author Book Sale

This coming Saturday, November 4th, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Hardin County Public Library

100 Jim Owens Drive

Elizabethtown, KY. 

 

Relatives – you can’t choose them, and you can’t lose them…unless they die. And that’s what Cousin Maud did. Dash Hammond must now unravel all of Maud’s little secrets.

OLD SINS, the seventh in the Dash Hammond series, will be published in time for the upcoming holiday gift-giving.

E. M. Munsch is very pleased to announce that Mystery and Horror LLC will publish this book. Cover to be revealed shortly.

 

 


Lynn Slaughter

Lynn will be a participating author at the Bluegrass Writer’s Coalition’s Festival of Books:
  • Thursday, November 9th, 3-8 PM
  • The Foundry in Frankfort, KY
Lynn will also be participating at the Louisville Book Festival in downtown Louisville
  • Friday and Saturday, November 10th and 11th, from 10 AM-6 PM
  • Kentucky International Convention Center, downtown Louisville
Lynn’s unpublished middle grade novel, THE BIG SWITCH: VARNEY AND CEDRIC, was the runner up for the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize in the middle grade category, https://leapfrogpress.com/past-winners/

Carol Preflatish

Carol finished the fourth book in her Nathan Perry Mystery Series.
She doesn’t have a release date yet, but estimates it will be sometime after the first of the year.
Carol will be signing books on November 25:
  • Evergreen Market, at the Community Center
  • Indiana Ave, English, Indiana.
Carol was just notified that her screenplay, Homecoming to Murder, has won another award. This one is from the ICE CineFest out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Per Carol: “I’m very excited to have won again.”

 


Leanne Edelen

Strangely Funny X, which includes Leanne’s short story Playing Possum, is now available for sale on Amazon.

Bev Myers

 

 

One of our new members, Bev Myers, has a short story published in Yellow Mama Ezine.

 

Warning: “Do You Know the Pizza Man?” probably shouldn’t be read while you’re eating either pizza or muffins. Here’s the link. It’s a short, free read.

Yellow Mama Webzine – Do You Know the Pizza Man?

 

 

 

 


Linda Rees

Linda will be signing books at the Campbell County Band Craft Show – see details on the image.
She has also been asked to be a panelist at Imaginarium 2024 and will be teaching a workshop there.