|   | Gender: | Female | | Birthday: | August 6 | | Location: | Southern California, USA | | About Me: | Newly retired, I enjoy the freedom of finally having time to learn tennis and Tai Chi. I bought a bike in June and ride it everywhere I can. I'm working with an agent to ready my novels for publication. You can find me judging the Writer's Cramp each weekend. I've finally made a web page, and started a blog:
***************** You can find me at:
******** KarenRiggin.com ***********
| | Type of Writer: | My love is sci-fi with a romance angle, but I also enjoy dabbling in other genres. | | Writing Style: | I'm learning NOT to be so grammatically correct. Today's publishers want shorter chapters, captivating plots, and hooks. | | Interests: | Astronomy, science fiction, stock market, getting published, WRITING novels. I love animals -- especially cats and horses. I feed birds and squirrels in my backyard. In my spare time I do crosswords, visit museums, go to the beach and zoo, and READ! | | Website / Homepage: | http://karenriggin.com | | My Blog: | http://karenriggin.com/my-blog.html | | Group Memberships: | Ventura Writing Club, Bookworms, local Library Supporter | | Favorite Link: | | | Favorite Link: | http://finance.yahoo.com/ | | Favorite Link: | http://karenRiggin.com | | Favorite Genres: | Science fiction, of course, but I read paranormal, vampires, mysteries, and anything someone gives me with a recommendation. | | Favorite Books: | The Host,
Contact,
Twilight Series,
Atlas Shrugged,
The Interior Life,
The Wolf and the Dove, and in general, whatever I just read -- which changes quite frequently.
| | Favorite Authors: | Stephanie Meyer,
Dorothy Gilman,
Andre Norton,
Elizabeth Peters,
Rita Mae Brown,
Diane Mott Davidson,
M.C. Beaton,
Amanda Quick,
Anne McCaffrey
and countless others in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and generic fiction | | Favorite Poets: | Robert Frost
ee.cummings and many of the distinguished poets on
Writing.com (like Harry.) | | Favorite Quote: | "To be nobody - but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
(ee.cummings) | | Favorite Music: | Most Renaissance Music and chamber music, but in particular:
Puccini,
Vivaldi,
Paganini,
Mozart,
Bach,
Prokofiev,
Andrew Lloyd Webber (His Variations on Paganini really sends me into ecstacy!)as does Handel's Messiah.
| | Favorite Movies: | The Twilight Series,
The Happiest Millionaire,
The Last Starfighter,
Emma,Pride and Prejudice
Starman,
A Walk to Remember,
and the oldies:
A Majority of One,
The Enchanted Garden,
A Magnificent Obsession, AND
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. |
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