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Karen Mason

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Historical Fiction, Romance, Mystery & Thrillers

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Karen Mason was born in London in 1971 and still resides there. She has been writing since childhood and won her first accolade aged seven when she came second in the Blue Peter 'Write a Limerick for Goldie the Dog' competition. Fifteen years later she came second in the now defunct Me! Magazine, 'Write a Blockbuster' competition with an early novel called Violet's Children. She first published her novel Summerset in 2008 and has gone on to release Mad About the Boy, Two Become One, Winner Takes it All - the sequel to Summerset, Mrs Osbourne Regrets, The True Tale of Jezebel Cole, Only You, Paradise Lost, The Line of Passion Trilogy, The Never Forget saga - Never Forget, The Exciting Life, Never Tear Us Apart and The Lucky Ones. And also, t ...more

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It had to happen some time – the backlash against the self-publishing revolution. For the first time ever, ordinary Joes (like me) have had the chance to publish their work for free and let the world read their books and decide if they like them as an author. For me personally, I knew self publishing was never going to make me rich, but I write because I like telling stories, and I enjoy hearing o Read more of this blog post »

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	The True Tale of Jezebel Cole 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mrs. Osbourne Regrets 3.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maudie (The Line of Passion Trilogy book 1) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winner Takes It All 2.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mad About the Boy 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Summerset 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Forget 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scorpio Rising (The Phillipa Hardcastle Mysteries Book 1) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teenage Kicks really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 2: by Kathryn

Feb 19, 2013 01:46PM

Thanks for the friend request :D

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message 1: by Victoria

Oct 31, 2009 01:28PM

Hi Karen,

I've tagged for you already, and I'd be so grateful if you'd tag 'Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools' now that it's released.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Chickens-Mules-...

Thanks so much, badly in need of tagging.

Victoria

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