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Karen Essex
Goodreads Author
Born
New Orleans, LA, The United States
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Iris Murdoch, Proust, Naguib Mafouz,, Mary Renault, Robert Graves, Tom
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June 2008
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https://www.goodreads.com/karenessex
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Leonardo's Swans
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2006
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Dracula in Love
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2010
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Kleopatra (Kleopatra, #1)
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2001
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Stealing Athena
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2008
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Pharaoh (Kleopatra, #2)
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2001
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Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend
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Run, Darling
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Pharaoh: Book II of Kleopatra
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kleopatra / κλεοπάτρα
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Queen Cleopatra of <2> Egypt last (Kadokawa Bunko) (2005) ISBN: 4042933033 [Japanese Import]
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Do you ask for what you’re worth?
I recently had the misfortune of “donating” my time and experience consulting to a BILLIONAIRE, who picked my brain for months, got a detailed proposal out of me, and then killed the project. At that point, I asked him for a consulting fee to compensate for my time, and he refused. “You should have laid out upfront costs upfront.”
My anger is at myself. I knew from the first meeting that I should h
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"The Gabor's were quite a fascinating family and I had no idea what they all endured and went through before, during and after the war. Three girls all trying to appease their mother, yet wanting their own dreams they were quite the "unholy" trio. Oft"
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The Gabor sisters were more from my mother’s generation, but I do recall watching Eva play the glamorous Lisa, who is displaced on a farm, on reruns of 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐴𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑠. I always got Eva and her sister Zsa Zsa, who was also an actress, confused with each " Read more of this review » |
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This lovely man and wonderful writer just passed away. Glad you read his book. He wrote many!
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"What in the good god did I just read—and did I love it? Why yes... yes, I think I kind of fell in love. Once I got used to the writing, that is. And guuurrrl, Gransden really makes us work for it, doesn’t she?
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So true. Styles change, humans, not so much!
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"A book that resonates today but also, I'm amazed at how modern Wharton's writing is. "
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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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“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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“One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.”
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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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-from Dracula In Love”
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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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A belated thanks for choosing me to be among your friends, Karen. It may interest you that my book Marvin Clark—In Search of Freedom in now a matching FREE download on Amazon Kindle. Enjoy it while you can. (A little review on Amazon wouldn't hurt either!)Stan
http://www.amazon.com/Marvin-Clark-Se...
Dear M. Essex,I am immensely honored that you woulld ask to be my friend. I've been down a bit and late on all my correspondence. Still, I was delighted -- even smiled! -- to see under my "notifrications" that you'd added me to your list. Thank you so much, espe3cially coming from such a successful author as yourself. I remain yours, Richard Lee Fulgham
Gary wrote: "Thank you Karen:My Memoir - TO LIVE OR MAYBE NOT
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Welcome, Gary! I love the title of your memoir.
Thank you Karen:My Memoir - TO LIVE OR MAYBE NOT
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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.
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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!
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!
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!
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.
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...
Thanks for the friend-vite Karen. I look forward to keeping up with you.
Hi You are very beautiful
Thanks for the add
Hi Karen,Thanks for befriending this fellow author on Goodreads!
- Beth
Sep 08, 2017 10:24PM