Author, educator and broadcast journalist, Karen Jones is the author of the romance novel Kingdom of Hearts and co-author of Up the Bestseller Lists. She holds degrees in English and Education from the University of Virginia. She currently works on-air with WVEC-TV 13 News and teaches week-long writing camps on Ocracoke Island, NC with Dr. Kathleen Brehony.
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Death for Beginners, Your No-Nonsense, Money-Saving Guide to Planning for the Inevitable is a humorous pragmatic workbook for
baby boomers about how to plan for the last stretch of their happy trails, the
inevitable. Yes, a book about planning for your death. But wait - it's funny,
really. It has to be for people to read it and use the worksheets.
Robert Burkhardt, on his YourFuneralGys blog says "It is one of the new but few funeral game-changer books that is coming into print in the next several years."
In addition - if I may so so myself - DfB has to be the
only book about death that mentions the Sex Pistols, Roy Rogers, lawn crypts,
potato guns, the body farm, the hokey pokey, Drunken Pin the Tail on the
Donkey, Burial Bingo and Hells Angel Harry "The Horse" Flamburis.
Jones is the author of the successful romance novel, Kingdom of Hearts, which was her publisher's best selling title for that year. This book has been picked up by iUniverse and is listed with all major online bookstores.
Her second book, Up the Bestseller Lists, 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. This book was published by Adams Media in July 2001.
The Marcell Glide, Karen's fifth book, is currently under consideration for publication. This southern fiction coming-of-age novel is set in 1951 North Carolina and tells the story of a young girl's transformation from victim to survivor through humor, hard truths and grace. click here for the synopsis and first three chapters.
Death for Beginners, scheduled to be published in 2009 by Quill Driver Books, isa non-threatening, slightly humorous, step-by-step guide to the practical side of death (breathe deeply and remain serene).This hands-on easy to read, pragmatic manual is directed toward those 81 million baby boomers who will soon be dealing with the Grim Reaper and it’s just what the national psyche is ready for. click here for the synopsis and partial proposal.
Jones' first novel, Kingdom of Hearts was published in 1997 by the duplicitous and financially corrupt Commonwealth Publications in a disaster of epic proportions. The resulting scandal inspired former FBI agent Jim Fisher’s book Ten Percent of Nothing The Case of the Literary Agent from Hell.http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Percent-Nothing-Literary-Agent/dp/0809325756
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 book, is a practical guide for
arranging a graceful exit written with baby boomers in mind. It is scheduled to be published in 2009 by Quill Driver Books. 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 long-form series The Haunting of Virginia which won an Associated Press Award. 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. click here for TV pictures.
She directed the Virginia Writers Conference for five years, is 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.
Her fourth book, the historical romantic suspense The Highland Witch is under consideration with various publishers. Karen is currently shopping her fifth book, The Marcell Glide, a southern literary fiction coming of age story.
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