26 September 2011
INSIDE THE AUTHOR STUDIO: Interview/Giveaway with Karen Rose Smith
INSIDE THE AUTHOR'S STUDIO
WITH
KAREN ROSE SMITH
Karen Rose Smith's plots are all about emotion. She began writing when she listened to music and created stories to accompany the songs. After expressing feelings in poetry, earning a degree in English and French, completing short stories that became too long to find a market, she turned to her love of relationships in romance. This award-winning best-selling author has sold 75 books since 1991 and has published with Silhouette, Harlequin, Kensington and Meteor/Kismet. Her awards include the Golden Leaf in short contemporary romance, the Golden Quill in traditional romance, cataromance.com's award for Best Special Edition and Romance Review's Today's Best series romance award. Jane Bowers of Romance Reviews Today states: "Karen Rose Smith's storeyworlds are complete and realistic and lovely places to visit and revisit. She excels at stories that feature couples brought together by infants and children, and she handles her plots and characters with sublime sensitivity."
Karen is well-known for writing emotion. An only child, she spent a lot of time in her imagination and with books—Nancy Drew, Zane Gray, The Black Stallion and Anne of Green Gables. She dreamed of brothers and sisters and a big family like her mother and father came from, seven children in her mom's family and ten in her dad's. On weekends she was often surrounded by aunts, uncles and cousins. This is the root of her plotlines that include small communities and family relationships as part of everyday living. She believes universal emotions unite us all and that is the reason she uses them to propel her plots.
Karen is well-known for writing emotion. An only child, she spent a lot of time in her imagination and with books—Nancy Drew, Zane Gray, The Black Stallion and Anne of Green Gables. She dreamed of brothers and sisters and a big family like her mother and father came from, seven children in her mom's family and ten in her dad's. On weekends she was often surrounded by aunts, uncles and cousins. This is the root of her plotlines that include small communities and family relationships as part of everyday living. She believes universal emotions unite us all and that is the reason she uses them to propel her plots.
Describe yourself in one sentence?
I am a
romantic realist who loves to write
What
are the one record, book, and food, you'd take to a desert island?
Record: MEET THE BEATLES!
Book: THE PROPHET
Food: Ice Cream
What
did you want to be when you were growing up?
An
interpreter
Which
book do you wish you'd written?
THE
FLAME AND THE FLOWER
What
makes you happy?
My
family, my cats and my gardens
What
makes you angry?
Judgmental
people and hypocrites
Name
five people who you'd like to invite to a dinner party?
Dean
Koontz
Michelle
Obama
Chris
Matthews
The
Dalai Lama
Diane
Sawyer
What's the scariest thing you've ever done?
Jumping
off a platform into a lake
What
inspired you to start writing?
I had
back surgery and was flat on my back for four years.
Where would you most like to live?
Flagstaff,
Arizona
What
is your favorite curse word?
Who
is your favorite man candy?
Simon
Baker
Sum
up your latest release in no more than twelve words!
Karen is offering up on copy of HIS COUNTRY CINDERELLA to a lucky commenter. So please comment below to win. The contest ends on Sunday October 2, 2011 at Midnight EST. Good luck.
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I'm not normally a Simon Baker fan but he does look fine in that picture!
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