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Member News – November

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.

 

 

Lynn Slaughter

Lynn will be a participating author at the Bluegrass Writer’s Coalition’s Festival of Books:
  • Thursday, November 9th, 3-8 PM
  • The Foundry in Frankfort, KY
Lynn will also be participating at the Louisville Book Festival in downtown Louisville
  • Friday and Saturday, November 10th and 11th, from 10 AM-6 PM
  • Kentucky International Convention Center, downtown Louisville
Lynn’s unpublished middle grade novel, THE BIG SWITCH: VARNEY AND CEDRIC, was the runner up for the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize in the middle grade category, https://leapfrogpress.com/past-winners/

Carol Preflatish

Carol finished the fourth book in her Nathan Perry Mystery Series.
She doesn’t have a release date yet, but estimates it will be sometime after the first of the year.
Carol will be signing books on November 25:
  • Evergreen Market, at the Community Center
  • Indiana Ave, English, Indiana.
Carol was just notified that her screenplay, Homecoming to Murder, has won another award. This one is from the ICE CineFest out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Per Carol: “I’m very excited to have won again.”

 

Leanne Edelen

Strangely Funny X, which includes Leanne’s short story Playing Possum, is now available for sale on Amazon.

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?

 

 

 

 

Linda Rees

Linda will be signing books at the Campbell County Band Craft Show – see details on the image.
She has also been asked to be a panelist at Imaginarium 2024 and will be teaching a workshop there.

Member News – October

Lynn Slaughter

Lynn’s latest YA novel, DEADLY SETUP, was a 2023 NYC Big Book Award Winner in the young adult category. Congrats!
Lynn presented a workshop at the September 30th Louisville Literary Arts Block Festival on “Writing Young Adult Fiction 101.”
On October 18, Lynn will be a participating author at the Blue Grass Book Bash in Lexington.

Carol Preflatish

Carol will be signing her books at:
Harvest Fest
  • 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.

Elaine Munsch

Lynn Slaughter

Hardin County Book Festival

Saturday, November 4

10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Hardin County Library

Elizabethtown, KY

 

David Wecker – Making an Ordinary Bio Extraordinary

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.

Member News – August

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.

 

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.”

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

Gloria Casale – Bioterrorism

DRS member Gloria Casale will speak to our chapter this Saturday on Bioterrorism, and she’s uniquely qualified on the topic.

Gloria Casale grew up in a small, blue collar town in New Jersey. She earned her medical degree at the University of Kentucky and completed advanced training in anesthesiology as well as preventive medicine and public health. She received training in bioterrorism and bioterrorism response at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and is a recognized expert in the international transport of disease.

Dr. Casale was a consultant to the Division of Transnational Threats at Sandia Laboratory. She has been an invited speaker to members of the United States military, as well as members of various ports associations on the topics of bio-weaponry and the international transport of pathogens.

Gloria has published two books:

Bioterror: The Essential Threat and Shadow Road: Where Shadows Find You.

Join us in person, or via Zoom. Details:

Date: Saturday, June 10

Time: Noon to 1:30PM (EST)

Where: MIDDLETOWN LIBRARY, 12556 Shelbyville Road, Louisville

Zoom invite:  https://sistersincrime-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqf-GqqTksHdU3KlnJ5kjf3cXGTAwYQhaT