Promote the advancement, recognition, and professional development of women crime writers in the Ohio River Valley region
The following DRS members will be participating at the Kentuckiana Romance Writers Books, Hooks, and Crooks Book Signing on May 17: Carol Preflatish, Elaine Munsch, Jeanette Pope, Lorena Peter, and Susan Bell.
The event It will be held at:
Georgetown, Indiana Optimists Club
8260 Hey 64, Georgetown, Indiana
from 11 am – 4 pm
Congratulations!
Joanne Dobson, author of the Karen Pelletier academic mystery series and The Kashmiri Shawl, spoke to our chapter yesterday 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.
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.
Where: Clarksville Public Library 1312 Eastern Blvd. Clarksville, IN 47129
When: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Time: 11 am to 1 pm
Carol Preflatish
Lynn Slaughter will be a participating author at the
Spring Fling Book Festival on
Saturday, April 19, from 2-5 PM
The festival will take place at the: Forest Edge Winery
1910 Clermont Road, Shepherdsville, KY 40165
Congratulations!