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Join us on April 13th to learn about the Prewriting and Prewriting Strategies from DRS member, Jeanette C. Pope.

Do you have trouble narrowing your focus when you begin writing? Feel anxious looking at that blank page?

In this presentation, Jeanette will share Prewriting and Prewriting Strategies to help get the writing process started. If there is time, we will practice using some of the strategies in a fun way.

Jeanette C. Pope has been a member of the Derby Rotten Scoundrels for 7 years. She is a retired teacher from Jefferson County Public Schools who still tutors elementary students 3 days a week and coaches her former students on their career paths and vocational choices.

Her passion for writing fiction has been a part of her life since her early teens. However, becoming an author wasn’t encouraged. Her hard-working parents did not see writing as a good way to become self-sufficient.

As a middle-of-the-road agreement, she and her parents decided a teaching career would suffice for financial security. Jeanette agreed because she knew she could dazzle her students with stories in every subject.

 

Jeanette has published two novels, Double Triangles and Desperate Angles.

Jeanette lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband. She is proud of her son and daughter who are very successful in their work choices. Her two granddaughters bring joy, love, and excitement to her life.

 

When: Saturday, April 13, 2024

Time:

11am to Noon: DRS Critique & Business Meeting

Noon to 1pm: Speaker Jeanette C. Pope

Where: Zoom

Please use the following link to register:

Zoom Registration

Carol Preflatish

Carol Preflatish has signed a contract with Seventh Star Press for Murder in Mystic Hollow, her fourth Nathan Perry Mystery.

No release date has been set, but the publisher is hoping for an early Spring release.

 

 

 

 

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Lynn Slaughter

Lynn Slaughter will be interviewed on “Briggs on Books” on February 21 at 2 PM.

You can watch the live interview at:

Web Channel: Central Valley Talk

Youtube Channel: YouTube.com/CentralValleyTalk

Facebook Channel: Facebook.com/CentralValleyTalk.tv

Lynn will participate in an author panel and book signing as part of the City of Florence, KY Book and Literacy Festival on Saturday, February 24:

https://florence-ky.gov/featured-authors/

Lynn’s book, Deadly Setup received a Maincrest Media Book Award in the young adult fiction category: https://winners.maincrestmedia.com/

Lynn will be the guest speaker at our next DRS chapter meeting on February 1oth,  talking about Writing the Romantic Mystery. More details will be posted on this event later in the month.

 

 

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E.M. Munsch and Lynn Slaughter

Authors E.M. Munsch and Lynn Slaughter will be signing their newest books on:

When:

Saturday, March 23, 2024, from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m.

Where:

Barnes & Noble, 801 S. Hurstbourne Parkway in Louisville, KY.

Jeanette C. Pope at Grace M. James Academy of Excellence – Entrepreneur Fair

Jeanette C. Pope was honored to get invited to the Grace M. James Academy of Excellence – Entrepreneur Fair, on December 13, 2023. Grace M. James Academy of Excellence is part of the Jefferson County Public School system.

While networking, Jeanette was thrilled to share her books, Double Triangles, and Desperate Angles with other business participants.

Author Jeanette intrigued students with the covers of her books and the fact that both books are set in Louisville, Kentucky.

Jeanette seized this opportunity to discuss with the teens (middle-school girls) the purpose and plot of her soon-to-be-published book, Authentica. The central idea of the novel is ways to respond to bullying in a high school situation.

The girls expressed great interest in reading such a book and urged her to have it ready for GMJ Entrepreneur Fair, in 2024!

The sixth-ninth graders gave Jeanette many useful insights and suggestions, so now she has enough information to write a sequel to Authentica.

 

 

We all know location can make or break a business, but how important is location for your novel?

Join us on January 13 when DRS members Carol Preflatish and Elaine Munsch discuss writing about location. Learn how they chose both real and imagined settings for their novels, and how location can make a story more or less challenging to write. You’ll also discover when setting has enough power to become a character in the story.

Carol Preflatish is from southern Indiana and has been writing for over twenty years. She is the author of the Nathan Perry Mystery Series, as well as several romantic suspense novels. Carol is also a multi-award-winning screenwriter. Her adaptation of her book, Homecoming to Murder, won the runner-up award for Best Screenplay – Long Format at Imaginarium 2023 and Best Feature Script at the ICE CineFest 2023.

 

 

Elaine Munsch, writing as E.M. Munsch, is the author of seven Dash Hammond novels. The latest, Old Sins, was published at the end of 2023. She is a life-long bookseller and lover of mysteries. She’s been a member of Sisters in Crime forever (or at least the last thirty years).

 

When: Saturday, January 13, 2024

Time: Noon-2pm (PLEASE NOTE THE NEW TIME FOR JANUARY ONLY)

Where: 

Middletown Library 

12556 Shelbyville Road

Louisville, KY 40243

• This meeting will also be zoomed – but not recorded. Please use the following link to register. 

Zoom Registration Link

NOTE:  From Noon until about 12:45pm, we will have a brief business meeting followed by a group critique session of short manuscripts submitted by group members. Carol and Elaine will give their presentation beginning at 1:00PM. 

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.

 

 

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Lynn Slaughter

• Thursday, November 9th, 3-8 PM
• The Foundry in Frankfort, KY

• Friday and Saturday, November 10th and 11th, from 10 AM-6 PM
• Kentucky International Convention Center, downtown Louisville

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Carol Preflatish

• Evergreen Market, at the Community Center
• Indiana Ave, English, Indiana.

 

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Leanne Edelen

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?

 

 

 

 

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Linda Rees