Featured Interview With Karen S. Bell
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in Brooklyn, NY and lived in Conn, Oklahoma, Texas, New Jersey and have now settled in Ponte Verda, FL which is a half hour north of St. Augustine, America’s oldest city. My husband and I raised for children two boys and two girls who live everyone BUT Florida. Two in Northern Virginia, one in Los Angles, and one in Frankfurt, Germany. All we have left are our two furry kitty kids who give us much joy and prove the adage that dogs have masters and cats have staff.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I lived going to the Public Library as a child and tires tread as many books as I could in the time aloud for borrowing. I remember a tall stack carries under my chin as I made my way home. Needless to say, I loved to read and try to read modern classics as well as contemporary fiction. Self-hep is thrown in there too. I’m fascinated with the teachings of New Age philosophers about the continuation the human spirit, wisdom thinking and the idea of an intelligent universe, and near-death experiences.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love Jodie Piccoult because she tackles social issues in her fiction, as do I. Alice Hoffman because she infuses her writing with magic, and the Latin-America authors who are steeped in the magical realism tradition like Gabriel García Márquez, and Isabel Allende. I love literary fiction because as a writer I respect the craft of wring and look for exceptionalism in the craft of writing. I look for that kind of writing in the modern classics. Currently, I’m reading East of Eden by Steinbeck. Reading good writers makes me a better writer.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Once again, I celebrate women in my work. This time the Feminine Divine is depicted in normal-seeming women who really are goddesses who save the world. Climate change will bring about rising seas and these women will create a safe haven on high ground in the form of a Bed and Breakfast Inn in Vermont. It will be a two book series where in book one is the establishment of the safe haven and in book two how the climate catastrophe is mitigated.
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