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Pet News
Featured Writer of the Week: Jean C. Keating
Thursday, Mar 29, 2012 8:22 am
Jean C. Keating is a national award winning author and freelance writer who is also a book reviewer and feature writer for Chesapeake Style Magazine. She holds degrees in mathematics, physics, and information systems. Named Virginia’s Outstanding Young Woman of the Year in 1970 for her civic as well as professional efforts as an aerospace engineer with NASA, she authored more than 50 scientific and educational administrative reports during her years with NASA and subsequent service as head of research for Virginia’s Higher Education Council.
When she retired from her second career in 1998, she began writing cozy mysteries featuring a female NASA engineer who bred and showed Papillons. The second in her mystery series, Beguiling Bundle, won the national APDW Arthur F. Jones trophy for best book 2005. Other books have garnered a Pulitzer nomination, won the Virginia Press Award and have been a finalist for top national awards from the Dog Writers Association of America (DWAA). Last year, an article about the memorial to Virginia's canines killed in the line of duty received three national writing awards, including a DWAA Maxwell Medallion for Excellence and the APDW Haggerty trophy. This month, another article published in the AKC Family Dog entitled Puff's Listening won the APDW Arthur F. Jones trophy.
She frequently travels, doing speeches and book appearances with one of her Papillons, a hearing assist dog named Puff (Astra's Coffee' n Cream) who appears in numerous personae such as Sherlock Bones, Blackeared the Pirate, General George Barkenton. The past president of the Chesapeake Bay Writers Club, Jean lives in Williamsburg, Virginia with seven Papillons. Her sixth book was a historical romance set in 1865 which did not feature a dog. Puff was not amused and has her hard at work now on their seventh book, the third in their mystery series entitled Cricket Catcher.
You can find them on Facebook or listen to live radio interviews about their books at www.JeanKeating.com.
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