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Author Karen Robbins "My desire is to reach people with God's love whether it is through my writing, my speaking, or my everyday encounters." Karen has been married to her husband Bob for 41 years. They met at Put-In-Bay, OH, where Bob drove cab for a summer and Karen worked in a pizza shop. They have five children (grandchildren being added regularly). Karen has been active in her community, PTA, and church and has served in many leadership positions. She graduated from Ohio State University with a B.S. in Art Education in 1969. As a full time mom, a teacher, a business woman, a paralegal student, a travel addict, and diver, Karen has had a wealth of experiences that contribute to her story ideas. She is also a quilter and avid reader. In 1987, she sold her first written piece for publication to Standard. Since then she has published over 200 articles and essays in various regional and national periodicals, and Christian publications. She has written a column for a regional magazine (Over The Back Fence) and a local newspaper and is currently writing a column for grandparents at Positively Feminine.org . For two years she produced a newsletter for new adult readers in the Project:LEARN organization of Cleveland. Karen has contributed to Impact, a collection of work and witness stories (NPH), The Bad Hair Day Book (J. Countryman), and Ho Ho Ho (J. Countryman). Divide the Child was her first novel. Her most recent novel is the first in her Casey Stengel Mystery Series, Murder Among The Orchids. Most recently Karen has coauthored A Scrapbook of Motherhood Firsts (Leafwood, 2012), the second book in the Scrapbook series (the first, A Scrapbook of Christmas Firsts). The Word Quilters, as the coauthors are called, met in an online writers forum and formed a group for encouragement in this writing odyssey. All six WQs have never been together at the same time and Karen is the only one to have met in person all of the other five.
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