Karen Rose Smith’s plots are all about emotion. She began writing when she listened to music and created stories to accompany the songs. After expressing feelings in poetry, earning a degree in English and French, completing short stories that became too long to find a market, she first turned to her love of relationships in romance and then the challenge of putting a puzzle together in mysteries. A career dream of hers came true when her romance HIS COUNTRY CINDERELLA was developed into a movie for UPTV—A Very Country Christmas.
An only child, Karen spent a lot of time in her imagination and with books – Nancy Drew, Zane Gray, the Black Stallion and Anne of Green Gables. She dreamed of brothers and sisters and a big family like her mother and father came from—seven children in her mom‘s family and ten in her dad’s. On weekends she was often surrounded by aunts, uncles and cousins. This is the root of her plot lines that include small communities and family relationships as part of everyday living. She believes universal emotions unite us all, and that is the reason she uses them to propel her plots.
This award winning, USA Today Best Selling author in both mystery and romance has released over 111 books since 1992 and has published with Silhouette, Harlequin, Meteor/Kismet and Kensington. Her awards include the Golden Leaf in short contemporary romance and the Golden Quill in traditional romance.
Karen has written three mystery novel series—Caprice De Luca Home Stager, Daisy’s Tea Garden and Tomes & Tea, a spinoff from Daisy’s Tea Garden. Many have been spotted on Amazon’s Best Selling cozy mysteries list.
Karen is an animal lover, and especially a cat lover. She and her husband are cat parents to five rescued felines-–Zoie Joy, Miss Paddington, Bonnie, Zander and Freya. If you’d like to read about Karen’s fur babies, follow her on Facebook or TikTok and/or sign up for her newsletter IN TOUCH.
