Eileen P Duggan

Eileen P. Duggan, a lifelong St. Louisan, is a freelance writer, editor, journalist, piano teacher and dabbler in other trades too numerous to mention. A former newspaper editor, she has written for several St. Louis-based and national publications. She holds a bachelor’s degree in piano pedagogy and has written music reviews for the *St. Louis Post-Dispatch* and a music column for the *West End Word*. She is the managing editor of a quarterly neighborhood newspaper, *The Griffin*, serving St. Louis' Central West End. She also judges annual competitions for the Illinois College Press Association and other college press associations.

Many of her published pieces, along with original writing, are available on her blog, *Versatiliosity* on Wordpress.

She is the author of three music-related novels, THE NOT-READY-FOR-JUILLIARD PLAYERS, APRIL FOOLS DAILY and TOUCH. For book guides, see Versatiliosity under the Fiction tab.

Her new series, TATE vs. FATE, debuted in 2024. Tate vs. Fate is a series of murder-free mysteries, featuring Confidence Tate, a lawyer/journalist-turned private-investigator based in a suburb of St. Louis . She works with her tech-savvy, ex-rapper assistant Jay-Ray and a cat named Columbo. The first installment, BED, BREAKFAST AND THE BEYOND, released July 10, 2024 in both ebook and paperback.

**FIRST PLACE WINNER of the 2023 National Federation of Press Women's Communications Contest, for TOUCH, in the Young Adult Book – Fiction category.

**FIRST PLACE WINNER of the 2025 National Federation of Press Women's Communications Contests for BED, BREAKFAST AND THE BEYOND in the Fiction for Adult Readers —Novels category.