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Karen Robards (born August 24, 1954 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a best-selling author of over thirty romance novels. After first gaining recognition for her historical romances, Robards became one of the first historical romance novelists to successfully make the switch to contemporary romantic fiction. Her work has been translated into eleven languages, and has won awards from both Romantic Times and Affaire de Coeur.
Karen Robards sold her first story in 1973. As a teenager working part-time for her orthodontist father, Robards saw a Readers Digest solication for funny anecdotes. She quickly penned and submitted a two-paragraph story. Several weeks later she received a check for $100, and her entry was featured in the December 1973 Reader's Digest. Although she attempted to sell other anecdotes to the magazine, her subsequent attempts were rejected.
Her first attempts at writing novel came while she was attending the University of Kentucky taking a graduate-level creative writing class, when the professor challenged each student to write 50 pages that could be published. After researching what types of books were selling well, Robards chose to write a historical romance, not realizing that she would be required to read her work aloud to the class. Although her professor and classmates laughed at her choice of subject matter, those 50 pages became the basis for her first book, Island Flame. This debut novel was published in 1981, when Robards was only 24.
At the time that Robards's debut novel was published, the typical paperback historical romance novel had a shelf life of only three weeks. After three weeks, her novel was no longer available on bookstore shelves, and her publisher was reluctant to purchase any further work without seeing the sales figures for the current book. Undeterred, Robards dropped out of law school to pursue her writing career. To pay her bills, she took a job in an orthodontic clinic, writing a new novel in the ladies' room at the clinic while on her lunch break. She finished this second book, the contemporary romantic suspense To Love a Man, in three months. The book sold quickly to a different publisher and became the true launchpad for her writing career.
Within the next several years, Robards had three additional historical romances published, including Sea Fire, the sequel to Island Flame, before To Love a Man was officially released. After the publication of To Love a Man, Robards's new publisher contracted her to write two novels per year, one a historical romance and the other contemporary romantic suspense. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, publishers began to fear that the contemporary romance market was "dead", and Robards was asked to write only historicals. She switched publishers in the early 1990s, moving to Dell, and convinced them to take a chance on a new contemporary romance. That novel, One Summer, was Robards's first hardcover contemporary novel, and its success convinced Dell to ask Robards to concentrate on her contemporary novels. After yet another publisher switch in 2001, Robards has been able to once again alternate the time periods she uses in her novels. Her novels have been translated into eleven languages.
Her novels are often praised for their sensuality. According to Romantic Times Magazine, "Robards has a true flair for characterization and excels at adding large doses of humor to the spicy mix." She has won a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and has been nominated for four Romantic Times awards for her novels, winning once for Irresistible. Robards has also received six Affaire de Coeur Silver Pen awards for favorite romance novelist.
Robards lives in her hometown, Louisville, Kentucky, with her husband, Doug Robards, and their three sons, Jack (b abt 1995), Chris (b abt 1990), and Peter (b 1983). Her parents, three brothers, and sister live nearby.
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Dr. Charlotte Stone Series
Karen Robards - The Last Victim (read by Ann Marie Lee)
Karen Robards - The Last Kiss Goodbye (read by Ann Marie Lee)
Karen Robards - Her Last Whisper (read by Ann Marie Lee)
Karen Robards - The Last Time I Saw Her (read by Ann Marie Lee)
Jessica Ford Series
Karen Robards - Pursuit (read by Franette Liebow)
Karen Robards - Justice (read by Angela Dawe)
Banning Sisters Series
Karen Robards - Scandalous (read by Justine Eyre)
Karen Robards - Irresistible (read by Anne Flosnik)
Karen Robards - Shameless (read by Rosalyn Landor)
Pirates Series
Karen Robards - Island Flame (read by Justine Eyre)
Karen Robards - Sea Fire (read by Justine Eyre)
The Guardian Series
Karen Robards - The Ultimatum (read by Julia Whelan)
Non-Series
Karen Robards - The Girl From Guernica (read by Nancy Peterson)
Karen Robards - Forbidden Love (read by James Lamgton)
Karen Robards - The Black Swan Of Paris (read by Nancy Peterson)
Karen Robards - The Fifth Doctrine (read by Carol Jacobanis)
Karen Robards - Darkness (read by Brittany Pressley)
Karen Robards - Shattered (read by Susan Ericksen)
Karen Robards - One Summer (read by Kate Fleming)
Karen Robards - Bait (read by Joyce Bean)
Karen Robards - Shiver (read by Shannon McManus)
Karen Robards - Whispers At Midnight (read by Pamela Steele)
Karen Robards - Vanished (read by Joyce Bean)
Karen Robards - Sleepwalker (read by Kate Rudd)
Karen Robards - Obsession (read by Joyce Bean)
Karen Robards - Guilty (read by Joyce Bean)
Karen Robards - Beachcomber (read by Kate Forbes)
Karen Robards - Ghost Moon (read by Dean Robertson)
Karen Robards - Hush (read by Cassandra Campbell)
Karen Robards - Wild Orchids (read by Gabriella Cavallero)
Karen Robards - Superstition (read by Joyce Bean)
Karen Robards - To Trust A Stranger (read by Laura Hicks)
Karen Robards - Walking After Midnight (read by Sharon Williams)
Karen Robards - Hunted (read by Cassandra Campbell, MacLeod Andrews)
Karen Robards - Hunter's Moon (read by Loretta Swit)
Karen Robards - Paradise County (read by Vida Vasaitis)
Karen Robards - The Midnight Hour (read by Barbara Rosenblatt)
Karen Robards - Night Magic (read by Renee Maxwell)
Karen Robards - Nobody's Angel (read by Ann Hodapp)
Karen Robards - Tiger's Eye (read by Rita Hottois)
Karen Robards - Dark Of The Moon (read by Elizabeth Wiley)
Karen Robards - This Side Of Heaven (read by Michele Schaeffer)
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