Stumptown Spirits
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As is the habit of authors, I’ve taken some liberties with history for the purposes of my story.
Danford Balch was indeed the first man legally hanged in the new state of Oregon, on October 17, 1859, for the murder of his son-in-law, Mortimer Stump. Accounts of the crime include Cuthbert Stump’s insulting remarks about his new daughter-in-law, and Danford’s subsequent incarceration, escape, and recapture.
While it’s a matter of public record that Anna Balch Stump married Eli Morrel of Hillsboro about a year after her first husband’s death, there’s no evidence that she and Mortimer conceived a child in their week-long marriage.
Personalities and motivations are strictly my own invention and are not intended to be a reflection on the nature of historical persons.
Huge thanks to the fabulous team at Riptide, especially Sarah Lyons and Chris Muldoon for believing in this story, and Carole-ann Galloway for patience, guidance and editing awesomeness. I’m truly grateful for the opportunity to join this family!
I owe Anne Tenino big time, both for beta reading and for introducing me to Chris and Sarah. I’m sure she’ll collect sometime—probably in beer.
Thanks also to Gina Fluharty, C. Morgan Kennedy, Ravenne Law, and Elizabeth Gibson, for friendship, support, and occasional ass-kicking. Much appreciated, my dears. You’re the best.
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E.J. Russell holds a BA and an MFA in theater, so naturally she’s spent the last three decades as a financial manager, database designer, and business intelligence consultant. Several years ago, she realized Darling Sons A and B would be heading off to college soon and she’d no longer need to spend half her waking hours ferrying them to dance class.
What to do with all that free time?
A lucky encounter with Jim Butcher’s craft blog posts caused her to revisit her childhood dream of writing fiction, and now she wonders why she ever thought an empty nest meant leisure.
Her daily commute consists of walking from one side of her office to the other, from left-brain day job to right-brain writer’s cave, where she’s learned to type with a dog attached to her hip and a cat draped across her wrists.
E.J. is married to Curmudgeonly Husband, a man who cares even less about sports than she does. Luckily, C.H. also loves to cook, or all three of their children (Lovely Daughter and Darling Sons A and B) would have survived on nothing but Cheerios, beef jerky, and satsuma mandarins (the extent of E.J.’s culinary skill set).
E.J. lives in rural Oregon, enjoys visits from her wonderful adult children, and indulges in good books, red wine, and the occasional hyperbole.
Find E.J. at:
Website: www.ejrussell.com
Facebook: facebook.com/E.J.Russell.author
Twitter: twitter.com/ej_russell
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