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Meet the Author.....
Set against a wild and wacky backdrop of San Francisco, the epicenter
of the biotech industry, A Pointed Death by Kath Russell tells a smart,
funny, and chilling story of espionage and modern love. Techno whiz
Nola Billingsley finds her former employee, an amoral creep who stole
secrets from her startup company, murdered. She begins a flirtation
with the inspector assigned to the case, and counts on her shorthaired
pointer Skootch to watch her back as she’s hurled into a world of
danger and deceit. Smart, witty, and playful, A Pointed Death looks at
both the land mines in today’s technology as well as the perils of
romance, and introduces a feisty female heroine you won’t forget.
Before transitioning to a life of fulltime writing and care-giving, Russell enjoyed a career in
the biotechnology industry. A seasoned executive with over 35 years in biotechnology
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.

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 is finishing her certificate in creative writing through the
U.C.L.A. Writer's Program.
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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.

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 and certain web ezines. She is a
member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and the Palm Springs Writers Guild.

Fiction: She finished her first novel, A Pointed Death, in 2006, is at work on the second book in the Pointer Mystery Series, Pointing the Zinc Finger
and a young adult novel, Buddy's Tail, a story about a rescued dog who finds love in this world and the next.

She finished Deed So, a coming-of-age novel in 2008. Deed So takes place in a small Southern town in 1962, during the last year of innocence --
the year before the Kennedy assassination, the civil rights struggle, feminist activism and the Vietnam War changed America forever.

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

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