Visit http://www.sharolynnebarth.com
Sharolynne Barth always wanted to write. Raised in the southwest Missouri Ozarks, she never thought about following her dream. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Education and a Master of Arts in English. She spent twenty years in the classroom with some fantastic young adults. On the first day of class, she always asked the group what they wanted to be when they grew up. When asked the same question, she would tell her teen students she wanted to be a writer when she grew up.
Once retired from teaching, she started a short story which morphed into her first romantic suspense, The Dreamin’ Tree. The tree on the cover is a photo of an oil painting she did on canvas.
Her stories are character driven. Barth says: “I’ve discovered raising my characters right doesn’t mean as soon as they hit the page, they won’t do any darn thing they please. One despicable character pulled that stunt so I erased him. I actually cried when he died.”
Visit Luis at https://luisrosasbooks.com/
Luis is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and has served overseas in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He graduated from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas with a degree in International Relations. He was inspired to write by the imagery, prose, and themes of classics like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Atlas Shrugged, and The Old Man and the Sea.
- His debut novel, A Savage Joy, reflects emotions evoked by inspirational classics. He’s lived many places abroad but is still proud of his Texas roots and his birth city of Laredo.
- October 29 at 6:30 p.m. Our own Linda Dobkins AKA Jo Allison is presenting virtually for Missouri Historical Society
The speech ties into the current exhibit called “Beyond the Ballot.” What did women do after they got the vote? This is exactly 100 years after women’s first big victory at the polls in St. Louis.
Here’s the link. https://mohistory.org/events/the-vote-what-st-louis-men-expected-what-st-louis-women-did
Regular Monthly Virtual Meeting
Instructions for joining are in your current Newsletter
October: 10/22, 7-9 p.m.
Hooks & Anchors with Bria Quinlan
Do you want to suck readers in immediately and keep them reading?
Are you tired of hearing that your action-packed open started too slowly OR that your slow burn was “hard to get into”?
Are you using mental movies to destroy reader exhaustion and keep those pages turning?
Want to make every scene open fresh and hot and ready to roll?
RITA finalist author Bria Quinlan will cover all of this and more in Hooks and Anchors.
September: 9/24 7-9 p.m. Zoom monthly meeting
How to Injure Your Characters
Chicago-based emergency nurse Brian Cuocci, MSN RN CEN will answer questions and share stories of his life at work. Brian works in a Level I trauma center in the Chicago area. He’s a Certified Emergency Nurse and Certified Adult/Adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner.
Visit Gary at https://grmillerauthor.com/
Miller is a published author and poet who is currently developing two St. Louis-based crime-novel series: one featuring 1950s private eye, Randal Murphy, and the other featuring contemporary homicide detective, Ike Barney. DEAD LEGENDS: On the Heels of the Earl, is his debut novel. A St. Louis area native, he also lived in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, where he worked as a Park Ranger with the National Park Service, and where he was first inspired to write. Life experiences, plus a vivid imagination arouse the storylines and characters in his novels, poems, and short stories. An active member of Sisters in Crime, St. Louis chapter since 2014, he now resides near family in the Missouri Ozarks.
For more, visit: grmillerauthor.com
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Sarahlynn lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her husband, their three children, and a joyously chaotic schedule. If you can’t find her, she’s hiding in a corner with a novel or stealthily planning their next family vacation.
Sarahlynn is president of the Greater St. Louis chapter of Sisters in Crime and an active member of Missouri Romance Writers of America. She writes both adult and young adult fiction.
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Laine Boyd has had a life-long love affair with books and began writing when she was a young child. Her first book, Unharmonious, published in 2014, introduces a set of continuing characters. Her second book, Dinner and a Murder, published in 2015, introduces a second set of continuing characters who merge with the first group, providing her readers a “story within a story,” as each successive mystery is released. Her page-turning mysteries are set in the St. Louis area, where she was born and currently resides. Her new book, just out in 2019 is Shakespeare’s Directive. Way Beyond the Blue is non-fiction.
