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Genre: Mystery & Suspense
About HistorySleuthLocation: Western New York Home Region: Website: http://www.myspace.com/historysleuth1 Favorite novels: Rebecca, Anything Sherlock Holmes, Weathering Heights, Harry Potter; all because they're so well written. Favorite writers: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Grisham, Kathy Reichs -- tough question, I read about 20 books this year alone... Favorite music: Depends on what I'm writing -- classical, if its a dark and stormy night. ;) Non-noveling interests: History, Drawing & Painting, web design, Mrs. Scoutmaster of our local Boy Scout troop, BSA Merit Badge Councilor |
Joined: August 13, 2009 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 31 NaNoWriMo buddies: 5
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Brief Author Bio: Well, I got a myspace which I don't pay much attention too --- although I should do one for my main character --- that would be more fun.... This is my first NaNo. I'm the Assistant Wyoming County Historian in NY State. I'm always writing something. We do a quarterly publication which I write for called "Historical Wyoming". The last article I wrote was 6,000 words, so I think I'm up for the NaNo challenge. I'm also a freelance Abstractor which is a person who does property title searches. So putting my two occupations together, I write mostly historical non-fiction. I'm working on a non-fiction piece right now. It still has historical elements of course and I have traveled around the state a bit to research it. Based in various facts, it weaves together a theory of events that don’t really go together, but is believable, making it quite enjoyable for my characters. My NaNo novel is something totally different, not related to the other book. So it will be interesting to compare the two books when done as what works best for me, methodical traditional way of writing or power-writing. I have one book self-published called "Bread & Butter: The Murders of Polly Frisch" True story about a woman who murdered her husband and children in the 1850s. Sold over 600 of them which isn't bad for a selfpublished book, only got a very few left. Wrote a weekly column for 2 1/2 years for a Native American newspaper in Northern, NY called "The Akwesasne Phoenix Sundays" (went out of print in 2006) which I wrote mostly NA history, and political satire. I created and maintain the website for our historian's organization, which can be found here http://www.gahwny.org Oh yes, I'm a wife, and a mom of teenagers.... with friends .... we have a very busy house!! |
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Synopsis: THE MILK CARTON MURDERS (Yes,the synopsis is really posted)
When three small coffins slide out from the bank of the Wiscoy Creek during a dredging operation, it was the last thing Dave Robertson of the Lamont Weekly Times expected to be reporting on. He had been sent out to cover clean up efforts after the latest storm, but even he could see―this was not some long forgotten family plot. Pinned to the tattered clothing hanging off the skeletons were pieces of old Wiscoy Dairy milk cartons, each displaying a photo of a missing child. Dave had never stumbled upon a story this big in their rural area where there were more cows than people. Readying his camera, before the county sheriffs arrived to stop him, he zoomed in on the remains to discover a familiar face from his childhood. It looked just like Sally, one of the many foster children his parents had cared for over the years―one his father said had been "placed elsewhere". Is this really what he had meant?
A lot of children went through his parents house since 1985―his father handling all the details. Did that mean they should expect to find more bodies? How could he report on the biggest story of his career knowing his father could be a murderer?
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