Karen Rose Smith
Award-winning author Karen Rose Smith was born in
Pennsylvania. Although she was an only child, she remembers the bonds of
an extended family. She and her parents lived with her grandfather and
aunt until she was five when her parents built a house next door. Since
her father came from a family of ten and her mother, a family of seven,
there were always aunts, uncles and cousins visiting on weekends. Family
is a strong theme in her books and she suspects her childhood memories are
the reason.
As a teenager, music became as important to Karen Rose as
reading. The Beatles were her favorite group. But she and her cousin took
their first sojourn into writing by collaborating on a script for the
MONKEES television program. They sent that script to every concert venue
where the group appeared that summer!
In college, Karen Rose began writing poetry and also met her
husband-to-be. They both began married life as teachers, but when their
son was born, Karen Rose decided to try her hand at a home decorating business.
She returned to teaching for a while but changes in her life led her to writing romance fiction. Now she writes fulltime. She has had 41 novels published since 1992. A winner of New Jersey's Golden Leaf Award in Short Contemporary Romance and the Phoenix Desert Rose Chapter's Golden Quill Award for Traditional Romance, Karen Rose has also been named a finalist in the National Readers' Choice Awards, Colorado's Award of Excellence Contest, Virginia's Holt Medallion Contest and Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for best Silhouette Romance. Her romances have made both the USA TODAY list and the Waldenbooks Bestseller list for Series Romance.
Married to her college sweetheart for over 31 years, believing in the power of love and commitment, she envisions herself writing romance for
a long time to come! Readers can write to Karen Rose c/o Silhouette Books
or through her website at http://www.karenrosesmith.com.
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