Karen Anders
Karen Anders grew in the state of Vermont. She was a mutinous girl who loved to read novels of different genres. She is a single mother of 2 daughters and currently working at North Carolina University. She was a bookworm at young age. When other children were busy in playing around with teddy bears, she was dragging around books. It’s no surprise that the foundation of her career as a writer was laid at young age only. She started making along with her sister at a very young age. Both of them spent many nights playing those stories at their sleeping time. She started reading romantic novels in high school and first romantic novel she read was The Princess Bride by William Goldman. Karen loved the book that much that she wrote a letter to William Goldman,the author of the book.The publisher of the book cut out a scene which she badly wanted for readin. So Karen wrote a letter to the author to get the scene but his publisher was not ready allowing him for sending it to Karen. She was addicted to romantic novels by reading her very first novel and then there was no stopping her. The second novel she read was The Sheik, which was given to her by her grandmother. Her grandmother was in love with Rudolf Valentino who starred in the movie,The Sheik.Her grandmother had the book based on the same movie.She gave that book to Karen. At sixteen, Karen took a class of English reading where she read books. All she did in that class was read books. These books showed Karen the meaning of true love and she felt that romance writers can help in growing this love. It is very adventurous for Karen to find time for writing amidst her busy schedule and chaos of daily life where she has to perform a role of a single mother of 2 daughters as well as of a university dean. She started writing in 1997 when her first book, Jennifer’s Outlaw, was published in April. She has been among the finalists of National Readers’ Choice Award. She has also won the estimable HOLT (Honoring Outstanding Literary Talent ) Medallion for her work.