Our trip to my hometown of Columbus, Georgia was brief. Friends Dave and Jane Wilson hosted us as they so often do when we come to town. We will do the same for them when they come to Oregon later this summer. Jane is an[..]
There was this brief time between graduating from college getting full-time jobs that Tim and I went without health insurance. We had no coverage. I'll admit the need for health insurance was not something I had ever thought prior to this period in our lives. I[..]
The following interview is with Lance Jay, author of A Cry in the Night. Jay has written numerous books under different names. This work is available in eBook and paperback. This recent work is a romantic suspense story. Click here to order your copy. Q:[..]
It was the last night he would be one, this grandson of mine, so I cradled him extra close as I rocked and whispered, "Whose birthday is it tomorrow?" He popped the ba out of his mouth and smiled, "Mimi's." Then he flashed me one[..]
God is an orphan. As far as any of us know, he had no father, no mother. He had to learn to scrap by on his own from the earliest of time. He didn't have a mother to tell him when to switch the lights[..]
Author/Journalist Karen Spears Zacharias is a Gold Star daughter and an alumni of Oregon State University.
Karen's work has been featured in the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, National Public Radio, and Good Morning America.
Her debut novel, Mother of Rain (Mercer University Press), received the Weatherford Award for Best in Appalachian Fiction from Berea College and was adapted for the stage by Georgia's Historic State Theater, The Springer. In 2018, Karen was named Appalachian Heritage Writer by Shepherd University, and Mother of Rain was chosen as the One Book One West Virginia Read.
Her first true crime book A Silence of Mockingbirds was chosen by the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as the One City Read.
Karen's upcoming book The Murder Gene, is her second true crime work.
Karen and her husband, Tim, make their home in Deschutes County, Oregon.
For more information on Karen and her books, click here