Lynn Slaughter

 

Lynn Slaughter is excited to share that MISSING MOM is the 2025 Readers Favorite Bronze Medal winner in the young Adult-Mystery genre.

 

 

See the results here:  Readers’ Favorite 2025 Award Contest Winners

 

 

 

 

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Lynda Rees and Lorena Peter

Lynda Rees and Lorena Peter will be participating in the event described on this flyer.

 

 

 

 

 

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Killer Nashville and Appalachian Writer’s Conference

KILLER NASHVILLE

Four members of our chapter attended 2025 Killer Nashville: pictured (l to r): Pamela Hirschler, Susan Bell, and Lynn Slaughter. Also attending, but too sly to be captured on film: Gloria Casale!

Lynn did several panels, and Pam moderated two panels. We hope they will share their experience with us at the next opportunity.

 

 

APPALACHIAN WRITER’S CONFERENCE (BEREA)

Gloria Casale and Susan Bell attended this year’s Appalachian Writer’s Conference. It was great fun, especially watching one of our panelists, Gery L. Deer perform Flash Fiction ‘on the fly’ using his manual typewriter from around 1950. Very entertaining. And speaking of Flash Fiction, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention my sister, Whitney Vale, won the 2025 Appy Award for Flash Fiction!

 

 

 

 

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Congratulations!

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Join us for our upcoming DRS meeting on April 12 at 11:30am for a hybrid (in-person + zoom) meeting at the Middletown Library.

The business meeting will start at 11:30.

Our program begins at noon and will feature Matthew Schultz, an IT expert. Matthew will speak about the digital issues we wrestle with as writers.  If you have any particular questions for Matthew, send an email to Bev Myers at baroquebev@gmail.com and she will see that he gets them.

When: April 12, 2025  

Time:  11:30 am EST  

Where:  Middletown Library

This meeting will also be zoomed. Please use the following link to register. 

Zoom Registration Link

 

Paul J. Hoffman presentation: Writing True Crime 

Paul J. Hoffman is an author, publisher, journalist, and actor. A native of Wisconsin, he spent 34 years in journalism, working as a sportswriter, news editor and nearly 20 years as special publications editor in Franklin and Columbus, Indiana, for Home News Enterprises and its successor, AIM Media Indiana.

Paul’s first book, Murder in Wauwatosa: The Mysterious Death of Buddy Schumacher, was published in 2012 by The History Press. It is the true story of the disappearance of an 8-year-old boy in 1925 and the subsequent investigation into the boy’s murder. Wicked Columbus, Indiana, published in 2017 by the same publisher, tells the true tales of some of that city’s more notorious stories.

He is the president and owner of PathBinder Publishing LLC, which he purchased in 2020.

Paul lives in Columbus with his wife, children’s author Kimberly S. Hoffman. They have six adult children and a granddaughter.

 

Join us on November 9 for our guest speaker, Paul J. Hoffman, who will speak to us on writing about true crime.

Paul J. Hoffman is an author, publisher, journalist, and actor. A native of Wisconsin, he spent 34 years in journalism, working as a sportswriter, news editor and nearly 20 years as special publications editor in Franklin and Columbus, Indiana, for Home News Enterprises and its successor, AIM Media Indiana. Paul’s first book, Murder in Wauwatosa: The Mysterious Death of Buddy Schumacher, was published in 2012 by The History Press. It is the true story of the disappearance of an 8-year-old boy in 1925 and the subsequent investigation into the boy’s murder. Wicked Columbus, Indiana, published in 2017 by the same publisher, tells the true tales of some of that city’s more notorious stories.

He is the president and owner of PathBinder Publishing LLC, which he purchased in 2020.

Paul lives in Columbus with his wife, children’s author Kimberly S. Hoffman. They have six adult children and a granddaughter.

Join us on November 9 for the DRS monthly meeting, followed by our guest speaker, Paul J. Hoffman.

• When: November 9, 2024
• Time:  
  • • • • • 11:00 am EST: business meeting
          • Noon:  Speaker Paul J. Hoffman

This meeting will only be zoomed – NO IN PERSON MEETING.

Please use the following link to register. 

Zoom Registration Link

Skeletal Analysis for Authors

Sara Marian will discuss how bioarchaeologists and forensic anthropologists go about estimating age-at-death, sex, and other features of a deceased person’s identity, as well as a crash course in how different types of trauma show up on skeletonized remains.

Sara Marian was raised in the woods by wild English teachers and has been writing for as long as she can remember. She is also a partner in Per Bastet Publications, a small press based in southern Indiana. Her fiction blends genres including fantasy and urban fantasy, cyberpunk and steampunk, mystery, historical fiction, literary fiction and comedy, and she is the author of over 200 nonfiction articles on the Clio history website. Her day job is archaeology.

Join us on October 12 at 11am for the DRS monthly meeting, followed by our guest speaker, Sara Marian at Noon.

• When: October 12, 2024
• Time:  11:00 am EST
• Where:  Middletown Library.

This meeting will also be zoomed. Please use the following link to register. 

Zoom Registration Link