Meet Eileen Trauth
I write in a variety of genres. I retired as a college professor in 2017. During my academic career I published ten nonfiction books and an award-winning play, iDream, based on my research. My poetry appears in Ordinary Time (Kelsay Books), as well as in print and online journals, and several anthologies.
My current prose writing projects include a historical murder mystery, and a family memoir. I find that my experience writing poetry has been very helpful in my fiction writing. My interest in writing a historical mystery novel grew out of my genealogy work. The characters I uncovered became the inspiration for my novel.
My mystery-writer sister, Suzanne Trauth, introduced me to Bouchercon, which I have attended with her since 2018. The conference panels and author interviews have been a source of valuable insights about mystery writing. It was at Bouchercon that I learned about Sisters in Crime. I have attended SinC workshops, both at Bouchercon and virtually. I have also taken several Jane Friedman courses on aspects of novel writing.
I am a member of the Greater Cincinnati Writers League, the Ohio Poetry Association, Fourth Friday International Poetry Group, Sisters in Crime, Derby Rotten Scoundrels and Queer Crime Writers. My wife, Kathy, and I live in Cincinnati, Ohio. www.eileentrauth.com.
Rhonda Lane
Rhonda announces that her first novel, Fatal Image, has been released and can be found on Amazon.
Rhonda has been a stringer news photographer, a reporter with a split beat covering “cops & courts” as well as feature stories, and a TV broadcast technician for live and recorded programming. In her TV days, her colleagues dubbed her “Chyronda” for her ability with a computer graphics generator during live news and sporting event coverage. In her print journalism days, she helped her small metro daily newspaper bring cameras into the courtroom for the first time.
As for her equestrian credentials, she grew up in rural Kentucky, but circumstances prevented her from being a lifelong horsewoman. In midlife, she entered the equestrian world as soon as she could after healing from a health scare.
For twelve years, she ran the horses-in-culture blog known as The Horsey Set Net.
She lives with her husband and their cats in an oak grove in New England.
Lynn Slaughter
Lynn’s most recent novel, MISSING MOM, has been long listed for the M&M Chanticleer Awards. Lynn said “even to get that far feels great!”Lynn also wants to thank translator Lynn Taylor, MISSING MOM is now available in German!
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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.