Joanne Dobson, author of the Karen Pelletier academic mystery series and The Kashmiri Shawl, will join us via Zoom (see zoom registration link below). She will speak about world-building and creating a unique voice for your characters.
Joanne is a novelist, retired English professor (Fordham University), and creative writing teacher at the Hudson Valley Writers Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY. In 2014, Joanne was honored by the Writer’s Center as Noted Woman of Letters. Joanne has often taught National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright Fellowship International summer programs at Amherst College.
Joanne’s six-book Professor Karen Pelletier academic mystery series (Doubleday and Poisoned Pen Press) won her an Agatha nomination and a Noted Author of the Year award from the New York State Library Association.
In her latest book, The Kashmiri Shawl, Joanne departs from mystery writing into the genre of historical fiction. The Kashmiri Shawl (2014), takes fugitive missionary wife, Anna Wheeler, from the sultry climes of 19th c. India to the cosmopolitan chaos of New York City, where she searches for a lost daughter. On the eve of America’s Civil War, Anna, now a popular poet, is lured back to India by a vengeful husband, memories of a forbidden love, and rumors of her stolen child.
- When: May 10, 2025
- Time: 11:30 am EST Business Meeting, Joanne will speak at Noon
- Where: This meeting will be ZOOM ONLY.
- Please use the following link to register. The meeting will be recorded and posted later.
Carol Preflatish
Lynn Slaughter will be a participating author at the 
Amethyst Drake (aka Amanda-Grace Schultz) is proud to announce that her debut novel THE SCHEME has been honored with the B.R.A.G. Medallion (Book Readers Appreciation Group). It now joins the very select award-winning, reader-recommended books at indieBRAG. This award is a testament to this book’s quality and the impact it has had on readers.
THE SCEME has also been selected as an Imadjinn Awards Finalist in the Best Mystery category. Winners of the 2025 Imadjinn Awards will be announced in July.
Lynn Slaughter will speak at Fort Knox Middle High School on