I’m thrilled to see Freezing Point selling so well in the UK!

“Killer Thrillers” is an authors collective I joined last fall along with 23 other award-winning, best-selling, and internationally published thriller authors. There are literally hundreds of excellent, low-cost e-books featured on the website, and from February 20 – 22, 6 of our titles will be FREE! Freezing Point by Karen Dionne Lucidity by CJ Lyons Switch by [...]

Thrilled to see my guest essay on writers keeping the faith, “Faith and a Box of Clock Parts,” on Jennifer Haupt’s “One True Thing” column on Psychology Today!

I’m delighted that Rogue Reader, a terrific new website for crime fiction readers, has chosen to feature my short story “Calling the Shots.” You can read the story at this link. Thanks, Rogue Reader!

The January issue of Writers Digest Magazine with my article on backstory is finally here! You can order the issue online, or pick up a copy at your favorite bookstore. “Weaving a Seamless Backstory by Karen Dionne Behind every well-developed novel lies an important backstory—but including too much of it too soon can halt your story’s [...]

(Though I’ll admit my heart dropped for a moment when I read the review’s title below!) “Freezing Point will have your blood running cold” I picked this book up on the recommendation of James Rollins. He mentioned that he had read this one and really liked it so I thought I’d give it a try. I [...]

I’m just back from ThrillerFest VII in New York City last week – what an incredibly fabulous time!      

Like to listen? Click on the image below to purchase BOILING POINT and FREEZING POINT in audio! I used to think that audiobooks weren’t for me. I’ve always considered myself a visual person. Tell me your name when we’re introduced in a social setting, and it’s gone five seconds after I hear it. Write it [...]

My Huffington Post article on errors in e-books struck a nerve, and resulted in me being invited to join host David Gray for the Calgary, Alberta Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio One morning show “Calgary Eyeopener” for a discussion on why there are so many errors in e-books. Click through to listen – David’s a terrific [...]

I’m delighted to announce that I’m now a book reviewer for The New York Journal of Books. Click on the image to see read my reviews!

On my way home from the 2011 Backspace Writers Conference in New York City, I found this on the shelves at the Borders bookstore in Laguardia.  Boiling Point’s an airport book! (Seems appropriate that a novel about an erupting volcano should be placed next to one titled “Bad Things Happen.” Yup!

From the Sierra Club’s Green Life blog. Nice! K.L. Dionne’s second eco-thriller is the sequel to Freezing Point, a gripping novel chronicling the battle for control of Antarctica’s ice. Think Dan Brown, only with more substantial material and fewer repetitive plot devices. Boiling Point features an eccentric group of characters — including two microbiologists, a celebrity figure, [...]

Thanks to the most excellent work of Tara Humphrey, at WBRW, I’m a local celeb! Karen Dionne: Profile of an International Author from WBRW on Vimeo.

Check out author Kristin Harmel’s segment from the WESH-NBC morning news in the Orlando market.

I’m — well — THRILLED to announce that I’m part of a new author collective called “Killer Thrillers”: 18 award-winning, bestselling, internationally published thriller authors who’ve joined together to showcase their self-published work. Many of the titles on the Killer Thrillers website first appeared in print. Others are original e-books. All are written by talented, [...]