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Karen Essex

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About this author

I'm the author of DRACULA IN LOVE, Stealing Athena, Leonardo's Swans, Kleopatra, Pharaoh, and Bettie Page: Life of a Pin Up Legend. I am also an active screenwriter and an award-winning journalist. I divide my time between Los Angeles and London, where I moved a couple of years ago to soak in the atmosphere. Helps when you are writing a gothic Victorian novel.

Please see my new blog, "Women, History, Sex, & Power" at www.karenessexblog.com.

Or join our chat group on Goodreads, Ask Karen Essex. http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/5...
I love hearing from you, Gentle Readers.


The glass escalator is a new phenomenon similar to the glass ceiling, except that instead of hitting their heads as they try to rise to the top, men entering largely female dominated professions are carried past their women co-workers in winged chariots known as glass escalators.


Not surprisingly, as the job market shrinks, men are entering traditionally female-dominated professions—nursing, tea...

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Average rating: 3.52 · 3,588 ratings · 694 reviews · 10 distinct works
Leonardo's Swans
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 1,398 ratings — published 2006 — 19 editions
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Dracula in Love
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 1,041 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions
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Stealing Athena
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 481 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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Kleopatra
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 401 ratings10 editions
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Pharaoh (Kleopatra, #2)
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions
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Kleopatra
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Tropical beaches, too many margaritas, add a sexy tempting stranger, and you have an engrossing tale filled with danger and excitement.

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“The point of my books is to give voice to otherwise voiceless females from history and myth, to unlock what has been secreted away in women's hearts and minds for millennia. Historically, women have either been reduced to nothing but their sexuality or stripped of it entirely: the Madonna or the whore.”
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“Everyone has a secret life. Perhaps yours is merely a gossamer web of thoughts and fantasies woven in the hidden furrows of your mind. Or furtive deeds performed on the sly or betrayals large and small that, if revealed, would change how you are perceived.
-Dracula in Love by Karen Essex”
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“...the world we learned as children to fear---the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world that is rife with unimaginable horrors. The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind.
-from Dracula In Love”
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message 13: by Karen

Karen Essex Gary wrote: "Thank you Karen:

My Memoir - TO LIVE OR MAYBE NOT
At Barnes and Noble


Welcome, Gary! I love the title of your memoir.


message 12: by Gary

Gary Revel Thank you Karen:

My Memoir - TO LIVE OR MAYBE NOT
At Barnes and Noble

My birth in Alabama, youth, high school-Holmes County High School, US Navy Service, music-Hollywood, Memphis, Nashville, Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Investigation, recording and releasing the single record of the song about the MLK assassination, THEY SLEW THE DREAMER and more.

Paperback and for Nook Book-Click Here


message 11: by Karen

Karen Essex Welcome new Goodreads friends! I hope you'll stay in touch here and on my chat page: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/5...

After these last, lazy days of summer, things will get more active. Hope everyone wrings the last drops of fun out of the waning days of warmth!


message 10: by Cristy (last edited Aug 21, 2011 11:20pm)

Cristy Thanks for the friend invite!.. I was stoked to find I was a winner of your book Dracula in Love and look forward to reading it!


message 9: by Karen

Karen Essex Nely wrote: "Hi Karen,
I saw your book "Dracula in Love" today while out shopping, and I was so excited to see it on the shelf! I was so close to buying it! But then I remembered I'll be getting it in the mail ..."


Hope you enjoy, Nely. Stay in touch!


message 8: by Nely

Nely Cab Hi Karen,
I saw your book "Dracula in Love" today while out shopping, and I was so excited to see it on the shelf! I was so close to buying it! But then I remembered I'll be getting it in the mail in a few weeks. This patience/virtue thing is not my thing. ;) I'm looking forward to reading it.


message 7: by Karen

Karen Essex I hope everyone will join my goodreads chat, Ask Karen Essex, officially from July 25-29 but we'll see how long we can keep it going!

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/5...


KellBell Thanks for the friend invite!


message 5: by Elena

Elena  Reeds Thanks for the friend-vite Karen. I look forward to keeping up with you.


Ana - Maria Lenghel Hi
You are very beautiful
Thanks for the add


message 3: by Beth

Beth Hi Karen,
Thanks for befriending this fellow author on Goodreads!
- Beth


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Derek Schneider Have a great weekend!

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Bradley Hello Karen, thank you for adding me as a friend. =)

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