Mystery Bones Murders: A gripping story of love, deceit, and redemption by Karen Randau ➱ Book Tour with Giveaway
My Writing
Journey
by Karen
Randau
Writing
has been a way of life for me since childhood. All of my major life events were
processed in prose. When I met with my counselor for the first time at the
University of Texas, I was shocked to discover people actually made money
writing. I earned a degree in journalism but quickly learned that newspaper
reporting wasn’t for me. Instead, I enjoyed a long career in marketing
communications.
That
led to a job with an international non-profit focused on social justice in
developing nations. Traveling the world taught me valuable lessons about life,
people, and justice. I’ve seen people
overcoming hardships like we in richer nations don't face, no matter our
situation. I’ve been in war zones, witnessed starvation caused by famine, had
my heart broken by children with preventable diseases because of extreme
poverty, and been angered by the way many of the world’s women are treated.
They work constantly to help their families survive. Despite their debilitating
poverty, there is a sense of great joy with the gift of little things.
One
day I was sharing strange thoughts with a co-worker and asked if she thought
I'd finally lost my mind. She said no, but maybe I had a novel inside me that
was trying to get out. Not believing I had the creativity to pound out a whole
novel, I set about trying anyway. That first novel was terrible, and I’m
thankful it never got published. But trying taught me how to write a novel and
how to get it published.
I
now have six books—five published by a small press called Short On Time Books
and one self-published because I wanted to see how that works. The first five
books feature a protagonist named Rita whose husband was one of fourteen people
killed in a movie theater shooting on their thirtieth wedding anniversary. That
book is titled Deadly Deceit. Soon Rita realizes she’s being stalked by
a man on a Harley, so she partners with the detective investigating the shooting
and unravels her husband’s web of deceit that started when he served as a
Marine in the first Gulf war. The next four books, Deadly Inheritance, Deadly
Choices, Deadly Payload, and Deadly Reception all feature
Rita in sticky situations.
My
most recent book is Mystery Bones Murders, and it launches a new series
featuring a feisty red head with dyslexia who runs a ranch in Wyoming.
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