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Here's my official writing bio--written mostly in third person, as if someone else did it:
Karen McQuestion's essays have appeared in Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Christian Science Monitor and several anthologies. She is the author of six books self-published on Amazon’s Kindle, one of which, the novel, A Scattered Life, caught the attention of an L.A. based production company and became the first self-published Kindle book to be optioned for film. Five of her previously self-published books will now be published by AmazonEncore. McQuestion lives with her family in Hartland, Wisconsin.
She can be reached at kmcquestion(AT)wi.rr.com
And now, a rundown:
 | Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the second of four daughters, sometime during the 1960s. A very fine decade for being born, indeed. |
| Grew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin where she diligently attended school, even though she'd rather have been home reading. |
| Attended the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, but had to go on an education hiatus when she couldn't find parking. Held various character-building jobs--waitress, payroll clerk, house cleaner, retail etc. |
| Married Greg McQuestion, and had three children, Charlie, Maria and Jack. Wonderful, wonderful kids. None of them ever gave her a moment's worry. (Hee--only kidding, of course!) |
| Once the kids got older and she started getting more than four hours of sleep a night, she began freelance writing. Her work appeared in Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Wisconsin Academy Review and CNI Newspapers. She's also served as a commentator on NPR's Lake Effect program. |
| Over the next several years she wrote several novels which, despite a lot of close calls, she was never able to get published traditionally. Eventually in 2009, she self-published her books as e-books on Amazon's Kindle, hoping to connect with readers. |
| What happened next was astounding. From the start, sales were good and supportive readers gave her books positive recommendations and reviews. As a result, one of her novels, A Scattered Life, was optioned for film in November 2009. And then, just when she thought things couldn't get any better, she got (and accepted!) an offer from Amazon's new publishing division, AmazonEncore, to publish the book in paperback. It came out in August 2010. |
| Continuing a good thing, Karen contracted with AmazonEncore for four more books: Easily Amused, a romantic comedy, will be released in September 2010, Celia and the Fairies, a children's book, will be available in November 2010, and two teen novels, Favorite and Life On Hold will come out in spring 2011. |
| She is currently working on another novel. She
feels grateful and blessed. |
These images came with my website software and I can't figure out how to delete them.
What do you suppose this is? I was
thinking cheetah, but now I'm not so sure... We'll just call it a big cat.
I once had a super ball that
looked just like this, but I believe this is a photo of our very own
planet Earth. I could be wrong...