Karen Jones

Author, broadcast journalist and freelance writer Karen Jones’ first novel, Kingdom of Hearts was published in 1997 by the duplicitous and financially corrupt Commonwealth Publications in a disaster of such epic proportions that it is included in FBI agent Jim Fisher’s bestselling book Ten Percent of Nothing The Case of the Literary Agent from Hell.

Her second book, Up the Bestseller Lists, Adams Media, 2001, co-authored with Kathleen Brehony offers hands-on advice and guerilla techniques for authors who want to aggressively and successfully promote and market their work.

Her third book, Death for Beginners, a nonfiction how-to practical guide for arranging a graceful exit written with baby boomers in mind is scheduled to be published in 2009 by Quill Driver Books.

Her historical suspense, The Highland Witch is being shopped as is her southern coming of age work, The Marcell Glide. Karen freelances for Virginia Superlawyer and The Daily Press, and has written Chic’s Beach, performed by Playwrights Premiere Theatre and published in A Chesapeake Celebration, San Francisco Bay Press, 2004

Jones has fifteen years of experience in television news at WVEC, an ABC affiliate, as an on-air anchor and feature reporter. In addition, working as a series producer she wrote and hosted the Associated Press Award winning long-form series The Haunting of Virginia. She also collaborated with the BBC on its award winning series Pocahontas. Karen’s media experience also includes stints as an on-air personality at WNOR, WAFX, and WNIS, in both the talk-radio and rock-n-roll radio format.

She directed the Virginia Writers Conference for five years, was an advisor for the Bay School for the Arts, and is a member of the National League of American Pen Women and The Authors Guild.

Karen has worked for ten years as an educator in the public schools, both teaching and writing curriculum. She has taught writing workshops and seminars at Louisiana State University, Austin Peay University, Old Dominion University and has taught courses in romance novel writing at the University of Richmond and Christopher Newport University. She currently teaches weeklong writing camps on Ocracoke Island, NC.