I'm the author of Fatal Image: An Avery Sloane Mystery, set on the fringe of Kentucky horse country. I also write essays, articles, and memoir. 

I was a weekend stringer news photographer and then a reporter with a split beat covering “cops & courts” as well as feature stories for the recently late and fondly remembered The Record Journal, a small metro daily out of Meriden, CT. 

Before that, I worked in television. I was a studio and remote broadcast technician for WKYT-TV in Lexington, KY. And then I was a computer graphics coordinator for both studio and remote telecasts at ESPN. 

More recently, I ran the now-defunct horses-in-culture blog known as The Horsey Set Net for twelve years. Reflective of its time, my horse blog started with 2008 Beijing Olympics, covered the racing campaigns of Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra, reviewed "War Horse" on stage and on the screen, and offered many posts  about the Triple Crown races and the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Kentucky. 

Anyway, my first published fiction was the short story “On Like Donkey Kong,” which appeared in Fish Out of Water: A Guppy Anthology. That story is getting an expansion, so stay tuned. 

Before that, my poem “At the Rail” was in Track Life: Images and Words by fine art photographer Juliet Harrison. 

Fatal Image: An Avery Sloane Mystery is my first novel and was a finalist for the 2023 Killer Nashville Claymore Award. 

I also created McNeely Solomon Media LLC, the publishing imprint under which my books and other online content will appear.

I live outside Hartford, CT, on a hillside in a grove of oak trees with my husband and our cats.