![]() Years later, when Karen Robards was attending creative writing classes at the University of Kentucky, her professor gave her a challenge she was to write a 50 page piece that could probably get published. All her later attempts at selling more stories to the magazine were turned down. She was paid $100 some weeks later for her story, which appeared in the December 1973 issue of Reader’s Digest. Robards jotted down her story and submitted it to the digest. She came across a Reader’s Digest request for funny sketches from its readers. When she was in her teen years, Robards did part-time work in her father’s orthodontic practice. She has won several awards-from the Affaire de Coeur and the Romantic Times.ġ973 was the year in which Karen Robards sold her very first story. Karen Robards has seen her works translated into 11 different languages. She then became the first author of historical romance novels to make a successful switch to the contemporary romance genre of fiction. She first started with historical romance, which gained her a lot of recognition. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a bestselling author, having written well over 30 novels under the romance genre. Karen Robards was born on the 24th day of August, 1954, in Louisville, Kentucky. ![]()
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