Other ideas also come from her involvement in sculpture and boxing. Kathleen Karr gets some of her ideas from the many trips she undertakes every year. During her travels, she developed a taste for archeology and has dug for gold in several towns in upper Wisconsin and the gold rush towns of Montana before excavating in Utah for Anasazi pottery. In the United States, she has been a camper and trekked across the Oregon Trail and remembers that at one time she had water up to her chin. She has trekked the rough terrain of the Yosemite country and traveled as part of a gypsy caravan across Ireland. Together with her family, they have walked in the old city of Jerusalem, traveled through the rivers in the rain forest of Venezuela, sailed up the Nile, explored dark and dank caves in New Zealand, and investigated the many historic sites in Europe. Karr has always loved reading and traveling and this is where she gets much of the inspiration for the novels that she writes. She currently has more than two dozen novels in “Destiny’s Dreamers,” and “Petticoat Party” alongside several single standing titles. She is also the winner of the SCBWI Golden Kite Award. The result of this was the 1990 published novel “It Ain’t Always Easy.” Kathleen’s novel “The Seventh Knot” was the winner of the Young adult/children’s mystery of the year. Karr started writing children’s fiction when her children told her to write something for them. She would go on to write several novels and won the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Medallion.

She made her debut as a women’s fiction author with “Light of My Heart” that she published in 1984.

After working for several years and publishing several works in the film industry and teaching college and high school, she started writing on a dare from her husband. After graduating from college, she got a job at the American Film Institute in Washington DC which had only been recently established then. During her mid-teen years, she went to Catholic University from where she graduated with a bachelor’s before she got her English literature master’s from Providence College. While she was born in Pennsylvania, she was raised on a chicken farm in Dorothy New Jersey, which is where she spent much of her childhood and early teen years. Kathleen Karr is an award-winning historical romance and inspirational author that was born in Allentown Pennsylvania. Oh, Those Harper Girls!, Or, Young and Dangerous

Skullduggery by Kathleen Karr