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Karen A. Wyle

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Karen A. Wyle is the author of multiple science fiction novels, including The Twin-Bred Series: Books 1-3; YA novel Water to Water; and near-future novels Division, Playback Effect, Who: a novel of the near future, and Donation. Her first novel outside the SF category was the afterlife fantasy/family drama Wander Home. She then turned to historical romance with her Cowbird Creek series, including What Heals the Heart, What Frees the Heart, What Shows the Heart, and What Wakes the Heart. She returned to fantasy with 2023's Far From Mortal Realms: A Novel of Humans and Fae. Her novel The Decision/A Novel of Germany is inspired by a crucial incident in her own family history. Her latest novel, That The Dead May Rest, comes out on October 17, 2 ...more

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Karen A. Wyle I hope you'll allow me two favorites :-). Neither is from classic literature, and one is from fan fiction. Both couples combine passion with impressiv…moreI hope you'll allow me two favorites :-). Neither is from classic literature, and one is from fan fiction. Both couples combine passion with impressive intellectual ability and compatibility.
--Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, from Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries. I particularly like how their relationship has matured in the authorized post-Sayers novel The Attenbury Emeralds.
--Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell in the Sherlockiana series by Laurie King, which begins with The Beekeeper's Apprentice.(less)
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--Hearing from readers that your book moved them and will linger in their memories;
--Finding just the right phrase to convey a thought or image, and knowing it's right.(less)
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Twin-Bred (Twin-Bred #1)

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Wander Home

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The Baby

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Division

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Reach (Twin-Bred, #2)

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Playback Effect

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Back to Cowbird Creek, With a Corrected Excerpt

As I'll say in today's Substack post, now that I've survived Release Day for my paranormal horror-adjacent novel, I'm returning to my historical romance series Cowbird Creek.  Looking up some character details in earlier books, I came upon an excerpt involving chicken soup (not in any way related to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series) and decided to read it just for the fun of it. Except when I

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“I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, 'That was a fine piece of music. I'll never listen to that again." But some people treat books that way. Not I!”
Karen A. Wyle, Twin-Bred

“For now, as he drifted toward dreaming, what came to him were not images of grappling and lust, but a sort of phantom copy of the bed where he lay, a dream of future days where he shared such a bed with a woman who had a claim on him, and who claimed him in return.”
Karen A. Wyle, What Heals the Heart

“Joshua Gibbs felt sun on his face and thought about opening his eyes. He decided to wait. He had some blessings to savor that wouldn’t need sight.”
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“...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.”
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