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I am the resident webmistress for Momwriters and a freelance writer, among a myriad of other endeavors. Visit my web site at: www.offthewallemporium.com or read more about me on my website at: "Meet the Author"
I'm a Navy wife and mother of six children, ages 19, 17, 16, 15, 13, and 11. We currently reside in Colardo (where I am the MomWriters Regional Host) with our three cats, Trent, Daria, and Quinn. I began writing seven years ago when the muse haunted me with a story in my sleep one night. It developed into a picture book manuscript. Since then, I have written eight picture books, three novels, and numerous short stories and poems. Although I write primarily fiction, to date I've only sold non-fiction: Domestic Bliss at Suite101.com. I also publish a family newsletter. One of my short stories placed 64th in the short story category of a Writer's Digest Writing Contest, and one of my novel manuscripts was a semi-finalist in the Austin Writers' League Manuscript Contest. I'm a member of the IWWG, SCBWI, and NWA.
Karen is also the author of ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING The Definitive Guide
{The Most Complete Reference to Non-Subsidy E-Publishing}, a best-selling,
Frankfurt nominated writer's reference. The Guide was a finalist for
the 2000 EPPIE and won the 2001 EPPIE for Best Non-fiction. It was excerpted
in the 2001 Writers Digest Novel & Short Story Market and made the
2001 Inscriptions' Books of the Year list. eBooks N' Bytes chose the
Guide to be their first winner of the eBooks N' Bytes Award of Excellence
for Epublishing Book of the Year (2002). The Guide was also a finalist
in the 2002 Indie Awards. The 2003 edition is published by Hard Shell
Word Factory www.hardshell.com in two volumes: Karen's first book of poetry was released in October 2001. SOUL BLEEDS The Dark Poetry and Other Wanderings of K.S. Wiesner finaled in the 2002 EPPIE's and is available from Atlantic Bridge Publishing www.atlanticbridge.net. Karen also writes children's books under the pen name Karen Sue Wiesner
for Writer's Exchange E-Publishing ebooks.writers-exchange.com. Releases
include: Karen has won the Inscriptions Engraver Award for best on-line columnist two years in a row, the Year 2000 for eXcellence in E-publishing Award: E-author from ebookadvisor, was a two time recipient of the E-Pub Ambassador Award, and was a recipient of The Simply Charming Award for outstanding promotion of e-books. She was also nominated for the 2000 EPIC Florence Moyer Service Award. Karen is a member of EPIC www.epicauthors.org, Prose Architects www.prosearchitects.com, Divas of Romance www.divasofromance.com , RWA www.rwanational.com, WisRWA www.eclectics.com/ WisRWA, Sisters in Crime www.sinc-ic.org, Electronic Publishers Coalition www.epccentral.org/ and From the Heart Chapter of RWA theromanceclub.com/fth/home.htm. Currently, Karen is working on the Falcon's Bend Series, a series of
mysteries, with award-winning author Christine Spindler www.christinespindler.com
, who hails from Auenwald, Germany. DEGREES OF SEPARATION and TEARS
ON STONE, the first two books in the series, are completed. Visit Karen
and Christine's mystery website at www.angelfire.com/super2/spindler/efalcon1.html. Find out more about Karen by visiting her homepage at http://www.karenwiesner.com.
Karen enthusiastically welcomes letters from her fans. Write to her
at kwiesner@cuttingedge.net
or by writing to PO Box 118, Black River Falls, WI 54615. Send your
snail mail address to Karen to receive a free excerpt disk.
I've been writing as long as I can remember, my first award won in 2nd grade sealed my fate. I started writing for publication in 1990. I love to write everything that comes into my head, but I'm really partial to children's writing (humor and fantasy most of all), religious articles, personal experience articles and essays, and occasional short stories for adults. I'm most proud of my short story included in children's author, Bruce Coville, anthology book of unicorn stories published by Scholastic Books, A GLORY OF UNICORNS. I also enjoy writing about writing, speaking and helping beginning
writers begin and encouraging other writers to keep going.
She worked at the local grocery store part-time during school. Kathy went on to work in the Hosiery Industry, which is one of the degrees that she had earned. "I could run a hosiery mill from one end to the other. And I did!" she says. She went from working a machine to running the company. Times came and times went and the hosiery industry just about dwindled. She went on to run an office for a furniture company, before they decided to close their doors. Finally she went to work for a textile company. "I love my job, but my true passion is to write," she adds, "I love to use my imagination and paper is the best place to put it." Kathy's passion started when she was in third grade. She won a poem contest that was ran throughout the entire elementary school. "I was shocked that I won because I had never won anything before and actually didn't know I had it in me," she tells. She has written numerous poems, since then, throughout the years. She met her husband, Shane, while she was working in the plant of a hosiery mill in 1991. They went on to get married in March of 1993. They moved around several times throughout the years until they settled down in Maiden NC to have a family. In February of 1998 they had a beautiful baby boy named Elijah. This was a tremendous time for Kathy. She loved spending time with her son at home, but she had to go back to work to make ends meet. During her spare time she started writing short stories and selling articles to a local newspaper. After several rejections, duh, she has finally received a contract to publish one of her short stories, named Andy LoStones Adventures in Kill Devil Hills, a story for young adults due to be out in 2004. Kathy is a volunteer for local charities, a co-leader for the Maiden Explorers 4-H club, a member of CornerStone Church, and has won several awards from different poetry contests. She has also had poems published in several anthologies.
My interests are breastfeeding and children's advocacy, reading, politics and (not as often as I like) walking. You can email me privately at: kgranju@aol.com
I am a nut for history and genealogy. Ask me sometime, I'll give you the low down on the many terrrribly innnnterestin characters I descend from. I love old Bugs Bunny, Anything Star Trek or vaguely Celtic. My music collection is, shall we say, ecclectic. Celtic harp, Louisville Jazz, Christian Contemporary, Southern Fried Rock, Country and Broadway. Writing is something I have been doing for a very long time. I just wasn't paid for it until July, 1997. Growing up on a dairy farm in south-central Penna. I worked every day until the work was done. As an adult I worked two and three jobs at a time to make the ends look at each other. Then I got married. Suddenly things changed, I wasn't my own person anymore. I had to think of someone else regularly. No problem, I still worked and kept the house. Then I got pregnant. We decided that I would be at home with our children, one of us should be and David made more money. So, there I was with a perpetually damp, warm, mewling, cooing boy-child. Four walls and the boob-tube. I would rather chew glass than do housework. I started going quite loopy. Another child in short order and a grandmother under foot and the process seemed irreversible. As the children became more independent I started looking for ways to bring some income to the house. Store clerk, Watkins representative, part-time secretary. Didn't much like any of them and then the ugly truth came out. David's opinion of the whole affair was, "You don't bring enough money in to make a difference, all it does is put us up a tax-bracket." Well, the fur flew, the tears flowed and life was generally miserable for a few days. Then I found a want ad for a correspondent at the morning paper neatly cut and laying on my pillow. (He's soooo romantic =o) From covering school board meetings I have expanded to be the unofficial history and agriculture correspondent. I have been on the cover four times since May (twice this month, Dec.) and had the cover of the 'Friday' magazine three times since Sept. It is very gratifying to be a 'productive' member of the household again. It is a relief to be among thinking adults on a regular basis. And yet I still get to be at home with my children, a better mom for the pressure valve my writing has become. So far my writing has been confined to the York Daily Record http://www.ydr.com and I have learned a great deal with out paying for it. My next move is to the magazines. Queries are being prepared and articles are burning a hole in my file drawers. Here I go. . . Email me privately at: momkate1@gte.net
Although she has multiple projects going on at a time, her favorite writings are, by far, those which deal with the Lord, Jesus Christ, and His teachings. Says Koni, "If I can touch one heart through my words, my life will have been worthwhile." You can see samples of Koni's work at her author site at http://www.konihelton.com/
Her first book "Give Them Wings and Let Them Fly" (Loyal Publishing) deals with surviving the loss of a child. "The Sleepy Little Star" (Get Graphic Publishing) is is her first children's book, and is the winner of the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Children's Literature. This book celebrates the light and love of children everywhere. Kymberli is also a proud contributor to the MomWriters book "911, The Day America Cried," soon to be released. Kymberli lives with her husband and son in San Jose, California. She continues to maintain an active schedule as a Staff Writer for several local San Jose Newspapers as well as promoting her own line of "Angel Images" Photography. Her current literary projects include "Give Them Wings II, a Collection of Feelings," "Out of the Ashes," a memoir for her Father; "Silent City of Angels," featuring her angel photography; and "America Writes Home, Letters of Courage and Faith from Our Military." Kymberli is a member of the Writer's International Network, Writer's Inter-Age Network, MomWriters, The Advertising Specialty Institute, The Academy of Country Music, The National Association for the Self-Employed, MomWriters TM, The Almaden Valley Women's Club, Angels4ever,Operation Angel, and the California Chapter of My Mommy is a Survivor. Kymberli can be reached at gtgrphc@aol.com or through the following links: "Give Them Wings and Let Them Fly" www.kymzinn.com - home of "The Sleepy Little Star"
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