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June 14 Guest Speaker: Ken McCormick, Art Director, on Book Cover Design

Ken McCormick is an art director and brand architect for the organic foods and agroecology movement. His portfolio includes the design of consumer package goods, magazines, books, exhibitions and direct mail programs.
 
Forty years ago, he took on the role of the public voice of the original Greenpeace office and began creating context-rich imagery that forges physical and spiritual links between humanity and this amazing planet we live on. Over a 30 year career, he designed the packaging and marketing for many of Nature’s Path Foods popular brands. And today, he’s semi-retired, primarily working on his own art exhibitions for museums and art galleries in Louisville, Kentucky.
 
Ken will speak to our chapter about all aspects of book cover design. How to do it yourself. How to work with an artist. And for those just starting a writing project, what to keep in mind for that cover you will need in the future.
 
More info on Ken and his projects at: www.redironcaves.com
 
This meeting will be both an in-person event and it will be zoomed.
 

When: June 14, 2025 

Time11:30 am EST Business Meeting, Ken will speak at Noon

WhereMiddletown Library + Zoom

12556 Shelbyville Rd, Louisville, KY 40243

Please use the following link to register for the zoom meeting. The meeting will be recorded and posted later.

Zoom Registration Link

 

Member News – May 18 2025

Scoundrels in Georgetown!

Members Lorena Peter, Susan Bell, and Elaine Munsch held down the DRS table at the Books, Hooks, and Crooks author event hosted by the Kentuckiana Romance Writers.

 

Another DRS member, Carol Preflatish, had a table there, also. Everyone had a great time and books sales were pretty good. We look forward to attending again next year.

 

Lynn Slaughter

Lynn SlaughterLynn Slaughter is excited that her last four novels have been accepted into Indie Kentucky, a collection of books from local self-published authors and those published by small presses which are available exclusively on the BiblioBoard Library mobile and web platform.

This collection is available to patrons of participating libraries all across our state/region.

Leisha’s Song
Missing Mom
Deadly Setup
Missed Cue

Lynda Rees

Lynda’s short story, My Old Kentucky Haunt, launches on 7/16/25 by Piker Press.

 

 

 

 

Lynda’s new book, The Attic, A Flip or Flop Mystery, launches 7/16/25 and is on pre-sale NOW! 

 

Congratulations!

Member News – May 11, 2025

More Book Signing for DRS Members – Kentuckiana Romance Writers Books, Hooks, and Crooks !

 

The following DRS members will be participating at the Kentuckiana Romance Writers Books, Hooks, and Crooks Book Signing on May 17:  Carol Preflatish, Elaine Munsch, Jeanette Pope, Lorena Peter, and Susan Bell.

The event It will be held at:

Georgetown, Indiana Optimists Club

8260 Hey 64, Georgetown, Indiana

from 11 am – 4 pm

 

 


Congratulations!

Speaker Video: Joanne Dobson – Creating a Unique Voice for Your Characters

Joanne Dobson – World-Building and Creating a Unique Voice for Your Characters

Joanne Dobson, author of the Karen Pelletier academic mystery series and The Kashmiri Shawl, spoke to our chapter yesterday about world-building and creating a unique voice for your characters. 

Joanne is a novelist, retired English professor (Fordham University), and creative writing teacher at the Hudson Valley Writers Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY. In 2014, Joanne was honored by the Writer’s Center as Noted Woman of Letters. Joanne has often taught National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright Fellowship International summer programs at Amherst College.

Joanne’s six-book Professor Karen Pelletier academic mystery series (Doubleday and Poisoned Pen Press) won her an Agatha nomination and a Noted Author of the Year award from the New York State Library Association.

In her latest book, The Kashmiri Shawl, Joanne departs from mystery writing into the genre of historical fiction. The Kashmiri Shawl (2014), takes fugitive missionary wife, Anna Wheeler, from the sultry climes of 19th c. India to the cosmopolitan chaos of New York City, where she searches for a lost daughter. On the eve of America’s Civil War, Anna, now a popular poet, is lured back to India by a vengeful husband, memories of a forbidden love, and rumors of her stolen child.

May 10 Guest Speaker – Joanne Dobson on World-Building and Creating a Unique Voice for Your Characters

Joanne Dobson, author of the Karen Pelletier academic mystery series and The Kashmiri Shawl, will join us via Zoom (see zoom registration link below). She will speak about world-building and creating a unique voice for your characters.

Joanne is a novelist, retired English professor (Fordham University), and creative writing teacher at the Hudson Valley Writers Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY. In 2014, Joanne was honored by the Writer’s Center as Noted Woman of Letters. Joanne has often taught National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright Fellowship International summer programs at Amherst College.

Joanne’s six-book Professor Karen Pelletier academic mystery series (Doubleday and Poisoned Pen Press) won her an Agatha nomination and a Noted Author of the Year award from the New York State Library Association.

In her latest book, The Kashmiri Shawl, Joanne departs from mystery writing into the genre of historical fiction. The Kashmiri Shawl (2014), takes fugitive missionary wife, Anna Wheeler, from the sultry climes of 19th c. India to the cosmopolitan chaos of New York City, where she searches for a lost daughter. On the eve of America’s Civil War, Anna, now a popular poet, is lured back to India by a vengeful husband, memories of a forbidden love, and rumors of her stolen child.

  • When: May 10, 2025 
  • Time11:30 am EST Business Meeting, Joanne will speak at Noon
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  • WhereThis meeting will be ZOOM ONLY.
  • Please use the following link to register. The meeting will be recorded and posted later.

Zoom Registration Link