Author, broadcast journalist and freelance writer Karen Jones is the author of The Summer of Grace, Up the Bestseller Lists! A Hands-On Guide to Successful Book Promotion, Death for Beginners, and The Highland Witch.

Jones has fifteen years of experience in television news as an on-air anchor and feature reporter where she wrote and produced the Associated Press Award winning series The Haunting of Virginia. She co-directed the Chesapeake Writer’s Conference, was an advisor of The Bay School of the Arts, and is a member of the National League of American Pen Women, and the Authors Guild.

She has taught writing seminars at the University of Richmond, Christopher Newport University, LSU and CNU. She also held week-long intensive writing camps for adults on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.

Jones lives beside the Atlantic Ocean with her amazingly tolerant husband. She can be reached at her website: kjwriter.com