 Crossings Book Club - Karen Kingsbury
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About Karen KingsburyKaren Kingsbury is an author who is best known for writing contemporary books about life changing events created into fictional novels. She began her career as a writer for the Los Angeles Times and later the Los Angeles Daily News before writing for People Magazine. To date, she has written over 40 novels. She has 13 million copies of her novels in print and has been on both the USA and New York Times Best Seller lists. She specializes in Christian inspired fiction writing with her first novel being "Where Yesterday Lives" that was published in 1998. She has written about recent social happenings that have occurred throughout the country and the world and has also written several books about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. She has written an entire series of the September 11th attacks entitled the September 11th series. Most of the books by Karen Kingsbury have been series books. She began with the Forever Faithful series and then moved to the Women of Faith Series. She has also written the Miracle Books Collection as well as gift books. In addition, Ms. Kingsbury has written children's books as well. All of her books center around her Christian faith and timely events, as well as how people deal with these events in a fictionalized setting. She has one two awards for her books. In 2005, she won the Gold Medallion Book Award for "Ocean's Apart" and she won the ECPA Book of the Year Award for "Ever After" in 2007. This was the first time that this award in fiction went to a female author. There are several movies adapted from her books that are in production or post production. These include the following:
In addition to writing novels, Kingsbury also wrote a song "Walls" that she co-wrote with Richie McDonald. This is played on Country and Christian radio stations and came out earlier this year. You can find books by Karen Kingsbury in Christian bookstores as well as local bookstores. You can also order books by Ms. Kingsbury when you go online through sites like Amazon. One of the books that you may want to begin with is "One Tuesday Morning" which was written in 2003 and is part of the September 11th Series. Another book, "Redemption" was written in 2002 and is the first book in the "Redemption" series. One of her most popular books so far has been "Every Now And Then" which was written in 2008. You can find out more about Ms. Kingsbury and her books by visiting her website online. She and her husband live in Washington State and has a son named Josh. She graduated from California State University with a BA in Journalism and began writing books when she was a child, although did not start her novel writing career until 1998. There are also several of her novels published that have been co-written with other novelists as well. She can also be seen at various writing conferences throughout the year in the United States. |
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