Author: susancbell

Member News – January 2023

Lynn Slaughter

Lynn Slaughter and Ellen Birkett Morris

Join our former DRS President, Lynn Slaughter, for her book signing and talk at Joseph Beth Booksellers in Lexington. Lynn will be there with award-winning author of LOST GIRLS, Ellen Birkett Morris

Lynn’s most recent novel, Deadly Setup, was released in 2022.

When: Saturday, January 28th at 2 PM

Where:  Joseph Beth Booksellers in Lexington

Other news:
I was featured on Sarahlyn Bruck’s “Author Spotlight” talking about DEADLY SETUP:  : https://sarahlynbruck.com/blog-slaughter. 
I did a guest blog/giveaway for CrimeCafe: : https://www.debbimack.com/blog/crime-cafe/guest-post-and-book-giveaway-by-lynn-slaughter/ , as well as a podcast interview which will go live January 8th.
I’m also a guest author on George Cramer’s blog on January 12.

Leanne Edelen

Leanne’s short story, Playing Possum, was accepted by Mystery and Horror, INC for an anthology to come out later this year!

Note:  Mystery and Horror published the DRS anthology Mystery With a Splash of Bourbon in 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

Patience Martin

The latest episode of Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater has been released, and our resident actress, Patience Martin, is a featured player.
The Case of the Sleeping Policeman is filled with drama and suspense – and lots of struggling and screaming on my part.  — Patience Martin
Here’s purchase and download information:

Linda Rees

Magnolia Blossoms, Reggie Chronicles 3 and Heart of the Matter, Reggie Chronicles 4 by Lynda Rees and audio by Sally Barron just came out in audiobook format and should soon be picked up by all audiobook retailers.

Linda is teaching a class on  Organization and Productivity (January 28) for Contemporary Romance Writers later this month. More information here: January 2023 CRW Workshops

 

Book Signing and Holiday Dinner – December 3 – Mark Your Calendars!

Book Signing at Barnes and Noble 1 – 3PM

Join your sisters in crime for a book signing at Barnes and Noble on Hurstbourne. Books make a perfect holiday gift. Authors participating:

Elaine Munsch – A Haunting at Marianwood 

Lynn Slaughter – Deadly Setup and other titles

Carol Preflatish – Witch Hunt and other titles

Lynda Rees – Operation Second Chance and other children’s titles

Jeanette Pope – Desperate Angles and other titles

Susan Bell – Mystery With a Splash of Bourbon

Gloria Casale – Shadow Road (note – Gloria’s books will be available, but Gloria has a conflict with another signing)

 

Location:

Barnes and Noble

Holiday Dinner – Olive Garden 4PM

Join us for our annual Holiday Dinner at Olive Garden on Hurstbourne. We’ll be celebrating another great year, awarding Elaine Munsch for her services as Volunteer of the Year, and electing our new board for next year. If you can’t attend, please be sure to email Lynn Slaughter with your vote for the board.  Our nominees for 2023 are:

President: Elaine Munsch

Vice-president: Carol Preflatish

Secretary: Leanne Edelen

Treasurer: Patience Martin

Programs: Miki Reilly-Howe

Webmaster/Membership: Susan Bell

Location:

Olive Garden

We’ve had very few opportunities to meet as a group over the past year, so I hope you can join us at the signing and/or the dinner later in the day. We look forward to seeing you on December 3!

 

 

Our Next Speaker: Susan Spaulding, Private Investigator

Susan Spaulding
Our next speaker will be Private Investigator Susan Spaulding, on October 8 at 1pm, at the St. Matthews Eline library. Our meeting will be a hybrid in-person/zoom meeting.  An invite with zoom details will be sent out closer to the event.
Susan Spaulding is a licensed Private Investigator covering the state of KY for the past 16 years.
She is the owner of Confidential Investigations and Surveillance and travels IN, TN, and MO as well conducting surveillance.
Sue is originally from Upstate New York having moved to Louisville in 1995.
She specializes in Surveillance covering cases such as Workers Comp, Child Custody, Insurance Fraud and Infidelity.
She finds her job most interesting and rewarding helping and talking to new clients every day.

DRS News Update – August Guest Speaker is Judith Turner-Yamamoto

Hot Off the Press: Update on our August guest speaker!

We’re delighted to announce that Judith Turner-Yamamoto will be our guest speaker at our August 13 meeting.

Her debut novel, Loving the Dead and Gone, comes out on September 6 from Regal House Publishing, Sour Mash Southern Literature series. Chapter member Miki Reilly-Howe will be interviewing the 2020 Petrichor Prize finalist about the long process from writing to publication, as well as the masterful steps she has taken to ensure her novel’s success.

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Judith Turner-Yamamoto’s work has appeared in StorySOUTH, Mississippi Review, Snake Nation Review, and American Literary Review, among others, and in many anthologies, including Walking the Edge: A Southern Gothic Anthology, Show Us Your Papers, and Gravity Dancers. Her awards include two Virginia Arts Commission fellowships, an Ohio Arts Council fellowship, VCCA and Fundación Valparaiso fellowship residencies, the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, the Washington Prize for Fiction, and the Virginia Screenwriting Award. Her article assignments, which include interviews with such luminaries as Frank Gehry and Annie Leibovitz, have taken her all over the world, and she has published more than a thousand cover stories and features on the arts, design, architecture, interiors and gardens, travel, food, fashion, and books in such publications as The Boston Globe Magazine, Elle, Interiors, Art & Antiques, The Los Angeles Times, and Travel & Leisure.  

Our Next Speaker – Lisa Haneberg – Are You a Methodical Writer, Mystery Maverick, or Both?

June 11 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Lisa Henneberg

Agatha Christie often broke the “rules” of mystery writing. And yet, one could argue her reliable storytelling kept readers coming back book after book. With juicy twists and surprises, of course. What can we learn from Christie’s measured, deliberate, but irreverent approach to bring new dimension to our stories? 

Lisa Haneberg loves to explore Galveston Island’s gritty back streets, stellar seafood joints, magnificent natural areas, and all points in between. In addition to the Spy Shop Mysteries she’s authored over a dozen nonfiction books. Lisa is a founding board member of the Lexington Writer’s Room, a nonprofit coworking space for active writers. She earned an MFA degree from Goddard College. She lives with her husband and dog in Lexington, Kentucky.

You can connect with Lisa on Twitter at @lisahaneberg, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/mysteryandmirth, and you can send her an email at lisa@lisahaneberg.com.

This event will be conducted via zoom. Please contact susancbell@yahoo.com for meeting details.