KAREN'S NEWS

SUMMER 2010

First, an apology for the long lag time since my last update. Unfortunately, sometimes personal issues not only take precedence over professional ones, they temporarily obliterate them. Suffice it to say the past year or so has been filled with challenges and life-altering events that seriously messed with my muse, shoving everything writing-related into the deep recesses of my overtaxed brain. The good news is that, now that things have calmed down, a new story has at last begun to stir to life down there; if all goes well, I foresee coaxing it out into the light soon. :-)

In the meantime, I do have two new Silhouette Special Editions releasing in July and October of this year (a month earlier in both paperback and e-editions at eHarlequin). WELCOME HOME, COWBOY (Book 4 of my Wed in the West series) is truly a book of my heart – I had to really dig into Cash Cochran’s psyche to figure him out, but the result (for me, at least!) was worth every nail-biting moment. See, this cowboy-turned-country singer has a whole mess of issues he’s spent twenty years ignoring…until an impulsive trip back home to tiny Tierra Rosa, New Mexico finds him all tangled up with his estranged best friend’s pregnant widow…and Emma’s two other kids…and the farm she’s struggling to keep going on what’s left of Cash’s old family ranch. The question is, though – who exactly is saving whom in this scenario?

Then, in October, when it’s-all-about-control Silas Garrett finds himself in a major childcare bind for his two adorable hellions, er, little boys, the accountant is not amused to discover his only option is off-her-nut, apprentice midwife Jewel Jasper. But the more the real Jewel breaks free of her past, the more Silas -- who hasn’t even dated since his divorce more than two years before – is shocked to realize that things might be ADDING UP TO MARRIAGE (Book 5, Wed in the West). Except for one tiny problem: Jewel isn’t the least bit interested in being anybody’s bride!

In other fun news, my 2001 Silhouette Intimate Moments PLAIN-JANE PRINCESS has been reprinted as a Manga comic book in Japan (my first!), and a Turkish edition of YOURS, MINE…OR OURS? (Special Edition, 2008) means my books have thus far been translated into 16 languages. Let’s hear it for global domination!

For your convenience, there’s a printable backlist (by series, if applicable) to help you track down my older books, as well as excerpts for the lot. And as always, feel free to drop me an email, and I’ll reply as soon as I can.

Enjoy!

—Karen