Karen McCullough began dreaming of other worlds somewhere around the sixth grade when a friend lent her a stack of speculative fiction books that included Poul Andersons's Three Hearts And Three Lions, Heinlein's Methusaleh's Children and Starship Troopers, and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End. After tearing through those, and then working her way through all the SF and fantasy books she could find in the local library, she began writing her own stories. At the same time, she began to devour books in other genres as well, particularly mystery and romance. That love of multiple genres continues to be a theme in both her reading and writing.

In the years since that formative reading bout, Karen has seen nine of her novels published.  Four of her novels of romantic suspense were published by Avalon Books, two mystery/thrillers (A Question Of Fire and Shadow Of A Doubt) are available from LTDBooks, and a fantasy role-playing game book, The Grey Mountains, set in Tolkien's Middle-earth was published by Iron Crown Enterprises.

Her most recent releases have been fantasy novels from ImaJinn Books. In its original electronic form, Witch's Journey  (November, 2002) was a finalist in both the Eppie and Dream Realm Awards.  Wizard's Bridge, in its original electronically published form as The Rainbow Bridge, won the first-ever Eppie Award for Fantasy.  The rewritten and expanded version was released in paperback by ImaJinn Books in September 2004. 

Karen has placed numerous short stories in a variety of small-press science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and romance publications.  She recently retired from her day job as Senior Web Editor at Reed Business Information to devote more time to her writing and Web design business.  She invites you to visit her home on the Web at http://www.kmccullough.com.