My Journey of Passion: Debra Goldstein – April 14 at 7:00 pm

Debra Goldstein sums up her journey in a phrase: “How I traded in my lifetime judicial appointment to follow my passion to write.” She always wanted to be a writer, but her father advised her to have a practical career, so she applied to law school instead. By age 36 she’d become a federal judge, one of the youngest in the US. But she still longed to write—so she started to write crime fiction in hours she could carve out from her judicial career and raising a family. When she started getting novels and stories published,  she had to decide whether she could keep on following both paths or had to choose between them.

Judge Debra H. Goldstein writes Kensington’s Sarah Blair mystery series (Three Treats TooMany, Two Bites Too Many, One Taste Too Many). She also authored Should HavePlayed Poker and IPPY Award winning Maze in Blue. Her short stories and novels have been named as Agatha, Anthony, Derringer, and Silver Falchion finalists. Debra serves on the national board of Mystery Writers of America and is president of SEMWA. She previously was on Sisters in Crime’s national board and president of SinC’s Guppy Chapter. Find out more about Debra at https://www.DebraHGoldstein.com .