Karpov Kinrade

About Karpov Kinrade

I was born with ink in my veins and magic in my heart. I've hit some lists (USA TODAY bestseller, top 10 in all of Amazon, iBooks, and B&N, things like that). Mostly I play with words, think about words and write down lots of words, hoping some of them make exciting stories. When I'm not writing, I'm yelling at my cat to get off the counter (he never listens) and hanging out with my kids.

From Rags to Riches: An Indie Author Success Story

How people wrote books before computers. I can't even imagine. Okay, maybe 'riches' is stretching it, but I guess it depends on how you define wealth. As a woman who went from being a single mother of three living on welfare after leaving an abusive marriage, to a now happily married woman who [...]

From Rags to Riches: An Indie Author Success Story2021-11-15T20:58:26+00:00

What Fall Does

We'd like to share a few poems for you today, written by our 11-year-old daughter, Maddie Karpov-Kinrade. You might remember her as the author of the short story Twins Forever. Granted, we are her parents and inherently biased toward her brilliance, but we found these poems evocative of our favorite season. Fall. What Fall Does [...]

What Fall Does2021-11-15T20:58:27+00:00

Are you ready for a new kind of heroine?

All week we’ve talked about the antihero and how it relates to women and the representations of women in literature, film, television and media. We’ve teamed up with Anne Chaconas (ABC) to provide four days of back and forth blog posts on our thoughts on this. Need to catch up? Scroll to the bottom for [...]

Are you ready for a new kind of heroine?2021-11-15T20:58:28+00:00
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