by Z. J. Czupor
ZJ Czupor‘s On Tour with Dead Writers brings us clues to a mystery author each second Tuesday of the month. Dust off your investigative skills and send your answer to mysteryminutecontest@gmail.com by the 20th of the month. From the correct responses, one will be randomly drawn to win a copy of Evidence of Murder by Rogue Lisa Black!
Photo courtesy, Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA.
When this famous author served in the United States Air Force as an intelligence officer, she also served as a squadron commander, a deputy group commander in England, a military assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, as an assistant professor in the English Department at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and as the Chief of Intelligence at Fighter Squadron in Kunsan Air Base in Korea.
She also worked in the Department of Defense’s Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon and reported on live sightings of Vietnam prisoners of war while working in the U.S. embassy in Bangkok.
Her military service garnered several decorations including the Defense Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the National Reconnaissance Office’s Silver Medal for outstanding contributions to the national defense.
After she retired from military service and began her writing career, she said, “I am grateful every day for the opportunity to re-invent myself in my early forties and pursue my passion. How many people get to do that?”
Who was this famous author?
Did you guess Nelson DeMille last month? Elizabeth in California won The Assassins by Rogue Gayle Lynds!
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Contest rules:
1. All US addresses are eligible to win.
2. Each month’s prize will be a book written by one of the Rogues and donated by that author.
3. All subscribers who email us with the correct answer before the 20th will be entered in a drawing to win.
Z.J. Czupor’s new murder mystery, When The Fog Rises, is published at zjames.substack.com. He’s also the author of the thriller Cut Right Through Me (also at Substack) and a book of poetry THE BIG WEIRD: Haikus in Times of Pandemic and Chaos. Z.J. is immediate past president of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and is an active member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. He is represented by Terrie Wolf, founder and owner of AKA Literary Management.
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