Interview with Author Karen Vaughn

 Karen Vaughan

Country Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Good morning, Karen, welcome to Vision and Verse, the place for Art and Authors. We're happy to have you here with us today. What have you written? 

DEAD ON ARRIVAL,OVER HER DEAD BODY , DAYTONA DEAD, DEAD MEN DON’T SWING, JAMAICA DEAD, LEFT FOR DEAD—(LAURA AND GERRY SERIES) and DEAD COMIC STANDING.

What is your favorite genre to write?

Cozy mysteries

Favorite food? 

Spareribs

Tea or coffee?

Coffee

Pizza or ice cream? 

ICE CREAM! 

Wine or beer? 

Wine

Where would you like to visit?

Australia

Favorite musical artist.  Do you listen to music when you write?  

I have a wide variety of music I like to listen to, but I prefer to write to the classics.

What makes you laugh? 

Comedy shows, stand-up comedy, funny books and a good movie.

Favorite work of art or sculpture.

Van Gogh, Monet, Picasso

How old were you when you started writing? 

42

Describe your perfect evening.

Writing and watching TV I love.

Where do you get your inspiration?

Life events

What do you do when you get a writer's block? 

I work on a different project or I draw or color.

Coloring is now recognized as a form of mediation. Who is your favorite author? 

I love Janet Evanovich.

I do, too! One for the Money. Lulu. Ranger!! Best book you ever read. The Thornbirds is my favorite but I love a lot of books.

Last book you read. 

Charlie Smithers Adventures Down Under by CW Lovatt.

What would you do for a living if you weren’t a writer? I

 would work with people with mental health issues which is what I did before I wrote.

Who is the one person who has influenced your personal life the most and why? 

My mom, she supported my artistic side and encouraged me to write.

If you could sit down and have a conversation with ONE person, living or dead, real or fictional, who would it be and why? 

I want another conversation with my mom to talk about writing and my life struggles with my own health.

What advice would you give someone who aspired to be a writer? Listen to your heart and keep writing no matter what.

Do you have links for us to follow you? 

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/Karenvaughansbooks/

twitter: https://twitter.com/karenvwrites

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/dashboard

my books on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1?ie=UTF8&text=Karen+Vaughan&search-alias=digital-text&field-author=Karen+Vaughan&sort=relevancerank

Jonali Karmakar's All of Me Blog Tour

Book Blurb:
All of Me is a collection of thirteen little stories that have been gleaned from real life as well as imagination. Exploring a range of genres, these throb with everything primal to human nature: fear, angst, joy, love, and longing. Some stories are designed to elicit smiles, chuckles, and maybe even a belly laugh or two whereas some are meant as a reality check. Universal in nature, each story provides a glimpse of what women empowerment or a lack thereof can mean in a person’s life.
From a small hamlet in India to the roads of Australia; from a mother’s betrayal to a daughter’s confession; from an extra marital affair to a same sex relationship learn for yourself the what, how and whys.

Originally written for anthologies and ezines, these stories have been revisited and updated for this new collection.  

About the Author:

Jonali Karmakar is a fiction writer with a Masters in English. Writing is not just her passion but her way of dealing with life. She loves being able to escape into the worlds she creates. Everything that she writes becomes a part of her and she wants her readers to know the woman behind those words. In addition to being an educator, she works as a content editor for a local news portal. She has been providing editing, proofreading and translation services for the past few years. 

Jonali’s work has been published in several journals, anthologies and poetry collections both national and international. An avid reader, she loves flipping pages of anything and everything on the table and reviewing the same on her blog Eclectic Moods. She feels that reading and writing are the flip sides of the same coin. Writing is her way of communicating with the world. When she’s not writing or teaching she loves to experiment with her paintings.

She has quite a few accolades to her name.

Contact the Author:

Blog * Twitter * eMail

Schedule for June 6 - 10, 2016

Schedule for June 6 - 10, 2016

Mon., June 6 -  Jonali Karmaker's "All of Me" Blog Tour

Tues., June 7 -  Interview with Author Karen Vaughan

Wed., June 8 -   New Work from Artist Parker Kaufman

Thurs., June 9 - Loretta Laird's "The Passers" Box Set Release

Fri., June 10 -    A Dilemma for Daisy by Carol Ann Kauffman

Blog Consolidation Woes

Dear Gentle Readers,

In the month of May, I attempted to merge the two blogs, Vision and Verse on bloodspot, and my author blog on weebly. It was a dismal failure. 

Vision and Verse, the Place for Art and Authors, gained almost five thousand page views. Vision and Verse has posts on art and artists, interviews with today's newest and brightest artists and authors, as well as cover reveals, book reviews, book promotions, and blog tours.

Carol Ann Kauffman at Weebly has articles on orchid growing and African violets, nature photos, an occasional restaurant review, photos of my dachshund KC, and a plethora of my own work. This website has lost page views in the hundreds in the last month.

So I'm separating them again. Vision and Verse will go as usual. It's very close to 100,000 page views worldwide and has it's own following of authors, artists, and readers.

The weebly site, however, is still plagued with techno-problems. And sometimes after many futile attempts at getting something posted, I have to mail it to a contributor's site and ask her to post it for me.

While I can, I'll continue to post on weekly for those of you who've read my books and like them, and have taken the time and effort to review them for me, and support me in all my writing endeavors. I'll still have posts on orchids and African violets. You'll still see my nature photos and pond pictures. And I'll still do the occasional restaurant, product, or movie review and KC's Hot Pick of the Week/Month/Whatever, but my boy KC is not feeling well and is showing his seventeen years. We have to coax him to eat and he doesn't do steps anymore so we carry him around.

Enough ramblings from this author for today. I appreciate every one of you. Thank you.

​Hugs,
Carol

BELTERRA by Carol Ann Kauffman

BELTERRA http://tinyurl.com/prnsshz

The Time After Time Series follows a pair of unlikely lovers on their adventures through life and love, this time on an alien planet divided into four tribes. When Neeka, daughter of the Lord of the Warrior Clan, was out picking lavender in their vast fields of the West, she felt him coming for her, and she was ready. When Braedon, Lord of the Soldier Clan of the East, rode into those lavender fields, searching for the woman of his dreams, he had no idea if she were even real. But there she was, standing there looking up at him, smiling. He reached his hand down to her and waited. She accepted his hand, beginning their adventures together, changing not only their lives, but the course of life and unity on their planet forever. An alien planet. Or is it?

Dear Gentle Readers,

The sequel to this book is called Dark Return, where the indigenous race resurfaces from being pushed into the ocean and wants their planet back.

Of course, Braedon and the Soldier clan think all out war is the only viable solution to the problem by eliminating the bat-like creatures, the Batrachs, once and for all.

And, of course, Neeka and her people think a peaceful settlement is the answer. However, there is more at work in the deep underworld of the Batrach caves.

Look for Dark Return in the fall.

Hugs,
Carol

Old Crimes and Nursery Rhymes by Jane Firebaugh