Guardian

Karen Robards is a historical romance, romantic suspense, historical, science fiction, mystery, thriller, and romance author. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1954, to an orthodontist named Walter L and his wife Sally Johnson. She exhibited an interest in authorship from a very early age as she peened her first short story when she was but a teenager. In December 1973, she sent two paragraphs to the “Reader’s Digest” and they were good enough to be published in the subsequent edition. While she was studying for her law degree at the University of Kentucky, she took a creative writing class. The professor asked his students to write a 50-page manuscript in any genre and Karen decided to write a historical romance since that is what was popular at the time. It was those fifty pages that would start her on the path to become a professional author as it would be the backbone for her debut novel “Island Flame” that she published as a twenty-four-year-old in 1981. She was still in law school at the time but once the novel started doing well, she decided to drop out and become an author. By that time, she had been studying for two years but believed that she had better chances in writing, which is something that she loved doing.