Introducing Karen

It's hard to figure out how to characterize myself, how to tell you who I am as a writer. On Facebook, this is what I've said (the Japanese is a nod to my Japanese DIL and granddaughter):

"Retired educator, おばあちゃん(Nana), lapsed Ph.D. student, writer, dog minder, chief cook, dishwasher."

On Amazon, where so far I'm published as K. T. Bond, this is me:

"If KT Bond were a car, this would be her general description...

Make: Female

Model: Jamaican

Mileage: Over 21

...and she'd be colored red.

Yes, KT loves cars. Too, she's a retired English educator, a lapsed Ph. D. candidate, and a member of the Romance Writers of America. She reads, cooks, sings, and sometimes walks on the dirt road where she lives. And she's thinking of taking up needlework. 

KT was writing for a very long time before starting her second career as a ghostwriter. Now she writes her own stories because "the most powerful story is a love story. We lose ourselves in it, and find ourselves there, too." Visit her on Facebook where she shares "the joy of love one story at a time."

Currently, I have four books published on Amazon, all of which found their first published lives on Literotica.com. I am currently working on a novel first begun in the 2016 NaNoWriMo event, though the idea was born a year before I began to write it down. And I've been doing NaNoWriMo since October 18, 2007. Here's the description I posted on that site years ago when I first began working as a ghostwriter for clients:

"Practicing the craft, and the art, of writing. I like the complexity of character - it drives plot, it impacts on setting, it keeps the reader on his/her toes. And creating memorable, life-like characters is the thing I most enjoy doing. Now that I'm retired, I can do this more, and do it better. My new job as a ghostwriter of erotic romances makes it easy to learn and grow."

What else should I tell you? I'm a wife and mother of four grown humans and one eight-year-old canine-that-thinks-he's-still-a-puppy named Chaz. I've been composing and writing since I was a teenager. Back then it was mostly poetry, or scripts for radio soap operas, all of which I composed in live performance -- where I was every character -- over the kitchen sink while I washed dishes after dinner in Barbados. Oh, and yeah, I suppose it's important to note that my life has been lived out in four countries, in two of which I grew up. And that's important because it informs who I am not only as a human being but also as a writer.