About Karen
Detroit native Karen Dionne is the internationally published author of Boiling Point, an environmental thriller about an erupting volcano, a missing researcher, and a radical scheme to end global warming.
Karen’s first science thriller, Freezing Point, was nominated by RT Book Reviews as Best First Mystery of 2008. Freezing Point has been published in Germany and the Czech Republic, and both novels are available in audio from Audible.com. Her short story, “Calling the Shots,” appears in the short story anthology First Thrills edited by Lee Child.
Karen is cofounder of the online writers community Backspace, and organizes the Backspace Writers Conferences held in New York City every year. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, and the International Thriller Writers, where she serves on the board of directors as Vice President, Technology.
Karen has been honored by the Michigan Humanities Council as a Humanities Scholar for her body of work as an author, writer, and as co-founder of Backspace.
Karen blogs at The Huffington Post, and has written about the publishing industry from an author’s perspective for DailyFinance. She also reviews for The New York Journal of Books.
Chaitén, Chile – April 2009
EXTRAS:
“WHAT IT’S LIKE TO VISIT AN ACTIVE VOLCANO”
CBC Radio One on-air discussion about errors in e-books
Radio Interview with Karen Dionne and Allison Brennan
A BETWEEN THE LINES INTERVIEW with Karen Dionne