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

Lynn Slaughter

Carol Preflatish

• October 14
• at Marengo, Indiana Elementary School
• Just off Hwy 64 in Marengo
• The event is from 9 am to 4 pm

Elaine Munsch and Lynn Slaughter

Elaine and Lynn will visit the Hardin County Library in Elizabethtown on Saturday, November 4th, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Hardin County Book Festival Saturday, November 4 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Hardin County Library Elizabethtown, KY

 

Join us October 14 for our guest speaker, David Wecker (meeting time, location, and zoom registration below).

David Wecker tells stories for a living.

As a columnist for more than 20 years for The Cincinnati Post, The Kentucky Post and the Scripps News Service, David wrote stories about ordinary people in a way that revealed what was extraordinary about them.

For 16 of those years, David was also head concept writer at The Eureka Ranch, where he wrote more than 5,000 concepts for new products, services and marketing strategies for Fortune 500 clients including the Walt Disney Co., the Ford Motor Co., Johnson & Johnson and scores of others.

If you look up his name on Amazon, the titles of a half-dozen books will pop up. They include “Spinning Beneath My Feet,” an account of a North Pole expedition for which he served as base camp manager, “Mastering the Universe: He-Man & the Rise and Fall of a Billion-Dollar Idea,” a chronicle of the 1980s male action figure David’s uncle created for Mattel, and two books co-authored with Eureka Ranch founder Doug Hall. David’s most recent book, “Square Pegs: Stories about Everything and Nothing,” is an anthology of his columns that were distributed nationally by the Scripps News Service.

His broadcast experience includes creating and co-hosting “Brain Brew,” a national weekly radio program aimed at solving small business challenges, and “The Backyard Barbecue,” a weekly humor/talk show parody.

As founder and president of BrandFlick, David’s work these days focuses on storytelling that connects, using video as its platform.

David and wife, Karen, live in a 200-year-old restored log home in rural Campbell County, Kentucky. David has two offspring, Sam and Betsy. Betsy is expecting to present him with his first grandchild, a girl, in the fall of 2023. David is a not-so-great gardener, a guitarist in his church band and curator of his own private ossuary.

• When: October 14, 2023
• Time:  11:30 am EST
• Where:  Middletown Library. This meeting will also be zoomed. Please use the following link to register. The meeting will be recorded and posted later.

Zoom Registration Link

NOTE:  The meeting registration will show start time of 11am. That is our chapter business meeting. David Wecker will speak at 11:30am. If you don’t wish to attend the business meeting, register, and log in shortly before 11:30 AM EST.

Pam Hirschler  is proud to share that her short story, “High Roller,” has been accepted for publication in the Speed City Writers Anthology, Amber Waves of Graves, (writing as P.K. Richard).

Pamela Hirschler (writing crime fiction as P.K. Richard) is a cyber security analyst when she is not writing poetry and short stories. A member of the Derby Rotten Scoundrels, the Speed City Sisters in Crime, and the Mystery Writers of America, she is working on her first mystery novel. She studied creative writing at Morehead University and has an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. She lives in Frankfort, Kentucky, with her husband, Bruce, and in her spare time can often be found hiking, camping, painting, or spending time with her five children and their families.  Website:  www.pamelahirschler.com.  P.K. Richard website arriving soon.

 

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Leanne Edelen’s short story, “The Perfect Match,” was accepted to be published in the Speed CIty Chapter’s Anthology, Amber Waves of Graves.  She is so excited about this publication and is also eagerly awaiting the release of Strangely Funny X which will include her short story, “Playing Possum.”

 

 

 

 

 

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Lynn Slaughter is thrilled to share that DEADLY SETUP has been named a finalist for Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Award (https://www.killernashville.com/2023-silver-falchion-winners), and her work-in-progress, MISSING MOM, has been named a finalist for Killer Nashville’s Claymore Award (https://www.killernashville.com/2023-killer-nashville-claymore-award-finalists) for unpublished manuscripts.

Lynn is also excited to be a faculty member at Killer Nashville later this month: https://www.killernashville.com/2023-faculty-s-z

 

 

 

Lynn Slaughter’s first adult mystery, MISSED CUE, came out from Melange Books on August 8th.

 

 

 

 

 

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Lynda Rees, The Murder Guru, is signing books at  Killer Nashville :

• Friday, 8/18 5:00-5:20
• Saturday, 8/19 11-11:20
• Sunday 8/20 11-11:20

Location: Nashville, TN. Address: Embassy Suites by Hilton, 820 Crescent Centre Drive, Franklin, TN 37067.