Katharine A. Russell publishes her mysteries under Kath Russell and her children's books under K. Anne Russell

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Author Biography

Before transitioning to a life of fulltime writing and care-giving, Katharine Russell enjoyed a career in the biotechnology industry. A seasoned executive with over 35 years in biopharmaceutical marketing and communications management, Russell, founded RWWR Associates to assist startup companies with strategic planning and positioning. Formerly, Russell was president of Russell-Welsh Strategic Life Science Communications, Inc., a public relations practice she sold to Grey Advertising in 2000.

Previously, Russell was senior vice president and a member of the operating committee of Cetus Corporation, one of the first biotechnology companies (now part of Chiron), where she helped Wall Street evaluate some of the first products of genetic engineering including PCR technology, interleukin-2, beta interferon and genetically altered crops. She also held various management positions at Baxter International at headquarters and in the Artificial Organs Division. Previously, she was vice president of a film company serving the pharmaceutical industry.

Her clients have included Genentech, Affymax, Cell Genesys, Abbott, Searle, Becton-Dickinson, Marion Laboratories, Mallinckrodt and the American College of Surgeons. She also was a founder and chief executive officer of MyEtribute, Inc., an eCommerce company offering information, products and services for mature companion animals and veterinarians.

Russell received a BA degree in history from Northwestern University, holds an MS degree in journalism from Boston University and an MBA in marketing from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern. She received her certificate in creative writing from the UCLA Extension Writer's Program in 2009.

Russell is a trustee of St. Mary's College of Maryland and served on the Board of Visitors for Goucher College for six years. A member of the Board of Visitors of Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (1992-2007), Russell served on that body's steering committee (2000-2007). She was a member of the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health Advisory Board from 2000-06.

She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, the Palm Springs Writer's Guild, the International Association of Business Communicators, the Women's National Book Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Russell divides her time between Palm Desert, California, and Baltimore, Maryland.

Check out samples of my writing on my blog http://www.russellwrites.blogspot.com

A POINTED DEATH ISBN1450563090

See series web site at http://www.pointermysteries.com

DEED SO

ISBN 9781453775035

http://www.deedsonovel.com

Buddy's Tail

ISBN: 9781456411954

Russell has written and published extensively throughout her business career and managed an array of corporate publications projects for employers and clients. She is a veteran of countless investor and IPO road shows spanning the United States and Western Europe, the technology industry's equivalent of the book tour. Recently, her columns have appeared in The Desert Sun, web genre journals and certain ezines. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and the Palm Springs Writers Guild.

While in industry, she edited an anniversary history, The Artificial Kidney, and was a chapter contributor to the textbook, Biotechnology, the Science and the Business.

Projects --

Russell finished Deed So, a coming-of-age novel in 2008. Deed So takes place in a small Southern town in 1962, the last year of innocence -- the year before the Kennedy assassination, the civil rights struggle, feminist activism and the Vietnam War changed America forever. Brainy twelve-year-old Agnes Hayden Bashford (Haddie) wants nothing more than to leave Wicomico Corners and escape to the exciting world beyond its narrow, tradition-bound borders. A series of shocking incidents brings the outside world crashing down on her backward village, exposing long-buried family secrets and setting Haddie on a collision course with an unstable firebrand who will have to silence her to protect his identity. A tragic act of violence throws this quiet backwater into the maelstrom of change, thrusting the Bashford family into the vile cauldron of bigotry and hatred. Haddie witnesses the killing of a Negro teen by a white down-on-his-luck farmer. Ambrose Slater rushes to defend his son, Elmer, a retarded boy, outnumbered in an after-school fight, and kills Jimmy Young, the delinquent son of a single mother. The ensuing trial, manipulated by local political aspirants, attracts the attention of outside agitators who see it as a civil rights cause celeb.

Deed So is a novel in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird. We are almost upon the fiftieth anniversary of the publishing of Harper Lee's masterpiece (1960-2010). Deed So lays bare the issues that marked the Sixties as a turning point in American History. http://www.deedsonovel.com

Deed So is available at CreateSpace and Amazon.com.

Other Fiction: She published her first novel, A Pointed Death, in August 2010, through CreateSpace, and is at work on the second book in the Pointer Mystery Series, Pointing the Zinc Finger. The series is set in the birthplace of the biotech industry, San Francisco, and features an eclectic group of science junkies dubbed the RNA Irregulars. http://www.pointermysteries.com

She also has released a children's novel, Buddy's Tail, a story about Buddy Boutonniere a rescued dog who finds love in this world and the next. http://www.buddystail.com

Nonfiction: Russell has two projects underway, a how-to book on writing effective business presentations and a nonfiction work on applying the general management principles and tools you learned in the workplace to the care-giver setting.