Karen e olson biography sample
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I am the award-winning author of 13 crime novels. My first book in the Annie Seymour mystery series, SACRED COWS, won the Sara Ann Freed Memorial Award for best debut mystery from Time Warner/Mysterious Press. And the fourth in that series, SHOT GIRL, was a Shamus Award finalist. I wrote four books in the Tattoo Shop Mystery Series and four Black Hat Thrillers, which feature a woman computer hacker on the run.
An Inconvenient Wife is a modern retelling of Henry VIII and his wives—as a crime novel.
I have lived in Connecticut most of my life, except for four years at Roanoke College in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and two years in Miami working for an advertising agency and then rewriting policies and procedures for an international securities and investigation company. I left Florida because I couldn’t afford a car with air conditioning.
I was an English major in college, reading a lot of dead white male British authors, and wanted to be a writer, but figured I shou
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An Inconvenient Wife
"The Tudor monarch mystery that I never knew I needed. As a fan of the Tudor era, this book had me hooked from the start. Yet regardless of the historical parallels, I also found myself engrossed by the unique and gripping narrative. An Inconvenient Wife beautifully weaves together the past and present, resulting in a thrilling must-read."
– Criminal Element
"A complex story with a large cast that Olson masterfully weaves and develops, An Inconvenient Wife is a new take on a historical family, proving that high-class murder never gets old."
– The Big Thrill
"Karen E. Olson achieves something wholly original with An Inconvenient Wife, which is both a crime novel and an astute study in marital relations and power struggles. While it takes its inspiration from Henry VIII and his wives, a king (and killer) who lived more than five hundred years ago, the story is thoroughly modern. At the risk of sounding impertinent: You may just lose your head
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Olson, Karen E.
PERSONAL: Born in New Haven, CT; married; children: one daughter. Education: Roanoke College, received degree.
ADDRESSES: Office—New Haven förteckning, 40 Sargent Dr., New Haven, CT 06511. Agent—Scovil, Chichak, Galen Literary Agency, 381 Park Ave. S., Ste. 1020, New York, NY 10016. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER: New Haven Register, New Haven, CT, travel editor. Worked for newspapers in CT for twenty years.
AWARDS, HONORS: Sara Ann Freed Memorial Award, Mysterious Press, for Sacred Cows.
WRITINGS:
Sacred Cows (mystery novel), Mysterious Press (New York, NY), 2005.
SIDELIGHTS: reporter Karen E. Olson's debut mystery novel, Sacred Cows, was the winner of the first Sara Ann Freed Memorial Award, named after the "late Mysterious Press editor who was known for her ability to discover new talent," noted Bill Ott in Booklist. Anise Hollingshead, reviewing the novel on the Book-Loons Web site, stated that "the story fryst vatten fast-paced, wit