FREE! Enjoy insights from several published mystery writers from Southern Oregon at this moderated panel discussion. Learn about mystery-writing and avenues for publication. Whether you are a beginning writer or just curious about the genre, here’s your chance to learn from the experts! Bring your questions. Check out their latest books.
Presenter BIOS:
Moderator:
PAMELA DEHNKE grew up in Santa Monica, California, which is the setting for her COURT REPORTER MYSTERY SERIES. She enjoyed a career as a court reporter in the Los Angeles and San Francisco
Bay areas. Upon retiring in 2014, she began her new career as a novelist – with seven novels already in publication.

Panelists:
WILL ASTRIKE is an award winning author of Western Historical Fiction. He has written ten novels including the Saga of AMOS GETTING, winner of the International Impact Award for Historical Fiction in 2024. His eighth novel, RUSTLING, won the American Writing Silver Award for Historical Fiction also in 2024. His first and second novels, THE KNACK and The SKILLS of EZRA LACEY, received Honorable Mention in the Chanticleer Laramie Awards for Western Fiction in 2021.

CLIVE ROSENGREN is a “recovering” actor, whose career spanned more than forty years, eighteen of them pounding many of the same Hollywood streets as his fictional private eye, Eddie Collins. Movie credits include Ed Wood, Soapdish, Cobb and Bugsy. Among numerous television credits are “Seinfeld,” “Home Improvement” and “Cheers,” where he played the only character to throw Sam Malone out of his own bar. Rosengren has written six books in the EDDIE COLLINS SERIES. Three of the six have been short-listed for the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America.

SHARON L. DEAN grew up in Massachusetts where she was immersed in the literature of New England. She earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of New Hampshire, a state she lived and taught in before moving to Oregon. She is the author of three SUSAN WARNER mysteries, three DEBORAH STRONG mysteries, and a collection of stories called SIX OLD WOMEN AND OTHER STORIES. Her novels LEAVING FREEDOM AND FINDING FREEDOM both have scenes set in Ashland. Her tenth novel, BOOKS INN, is scheduled for publication in 2026.

LYNN RANSFORD was born in Los Angeles, California and moved with her family from the city to a chicken farm in the San Fernando Valley, where she grew up surrounded by a variety of animals. Lynn has a Master’s degree in Education, three lifetime credentials and is an Early Childhood Specialist. Lynn co-writes the scripts for her docent work at the Historic Beekman House in Jacksonville, Oregon, and for Living History programs offered at historic cemeteries in both Ashland and Jacksonville. Now a retired teacher after 50 years in pre-school through University/Graduate level classrooms, Lynn writes the GRANDMA TELL ME A STORY series.