The Linn Creek Arts Festival features artists working in many mediums, including the written word!

 

This year’s Writers' Row includes regional authors from a variety of genres from travelogue to murder mystery.

Authors for 2011 include:

 

Retired journalist Jayne Bullock’s first novel, Winds of Destiny, is a coming-of-age story about Catherine as she “grows and learns about what things are important to her life – that of a faith, family and love.” A native of Nevada, Iowa, Bullock studied at Marshalltown Community College and Iowa State University and worked as a features writer for the Ames Tribune.

 

Dorothy Francis lives in Marshalltown and recently published her fourth novel, Eden Palms Murder. After studying music at the University of Kansas, Francis played trumped in an all-girl jazz band and taught music in California before beginning to write. Starting with children’s books, Francis eventually transitioned to adult short fiction. After receiving the Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society, she began writing murder mystery novels.

 

Now with 74 books to her name, Francis’s latest novel, Eden Palms Murder, follows songwriter Bailey Green as she looks into the murder of a family friend. Other novels by Francis include Cold-Case Killer, Conch Shell Murder and Pier Pressure.

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Robert Kerr’s first novel, Completely Restored, follows a couple as they restore a Victorian home to its former glory. Through the process they find themselves transported through time to 1909, where they must struggle to cope with life in a different time and also try to find a way home. A native of Nebraska, Kerr has lived in Iowa for 30 years and works as a school psychologist in central Iowa. He and his wife, Joan, have rehabilitated five homes, including one that inspired Completely Restored.

Carson and Connie Ode spent 2008 exploring the state county by county. Their travels are chronicled in IOWA – Spaces, Places, Faces. This travelogue details the landscape, the seasons and the people of Iowa and includes 1,400 color photos from across Iowa.

 

Michael Sieleman’s novel, Hippie from Iowa, chronicles his exploits after high school as he hitchhiked his way across Europe. The book is part travelogue and part coming-of-age journey as the author discovers new insights into himself and the world.