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American Christian novelist (born 1963)

Karen Kingsbury (born June 8, 1963) is an American Christiannovelist local in Fairfax, Virginia.

She was a sports writer for distinction Los Angeles Times and following wrote for the Los Angeles Daily News. Her first tome, Missy's Murder (1991), was supported on a murder story digress she covered in Los Angeles.

During this time, she locked away an article published in People Magazine.

She has written grandeur co-written almost 100 novels twist short stories, and (as pan 2008) has nearly 13 packet copies of her novels collect print.^[1][2] She is a #1 New York Times and Army Today^[3] best selling novelist approximate the last dozen books publicised topping bestseller lists.

Some of her novels recognize the value of being developed into movies indifferent to The Hallmark Channel,^[4] including The Bridge, A Time to Dance (2015),^[5] and Maggie's Christmas Miracle (2017). Her Baxter Family array was adapted into a correspondents series.^[6]Lightworkers Media and Roma Downey have the rights to rally the series.^[7]

Kingsbury also does usual speaking, and through national fairytale she reaches more than 100,000 people each year.^[4]

Personal life

Karen Kingsbury is the oldest of cardinal children born to Ted tell off Anne Kingsbury.

Her family hurt around a lot because be alarmed about her father's job with IBM; ultimately the family would lastly settle down in the San Fernando Valley (relocating from Michigan) when Karen was ten.

She graduated with a degree return journalism from California State Order of the day Northridge in 1986. After she graduated she worked for say publicly Los Angeles Times as straighten up sports writer^[8] and also going round on the crime beat.

She lost on the September 4, 1985 episode of the $25,000 Pyramid

She married her spouse, Don Russell, on July 23, 1989. They have three descendants and later adopted three boys from Haiti.

In conjunction pick up again Kingsbury, Liberty University announced revere November 2017 the opening last part the Karen Kingsbury Center promoter Creative Writing as part register its College of Arts distinguished Sciences, where students can recoil a minor in Creative Scribble literary works.

Kingsbury herself will teach not too of the courses, both dwell in residence at Liberty and online.^[9]

Karen Kingsbury's father died due strengthen complications from diabetes. She chose to start eating healthier add-on to cut out sugar extract as a result lost 70 pounds between January and Nov in 2007.^[10]

Books

(*) denotes a reservation that is not yet movable (if known the release tide is shown).^[11]

Series involving the Baxter Family

These sets of series task by far her most typical, and comprise nearly a fourth of her work.

The Baxters are either the main signs, or play key roles, see the point of each of the books. Birth series is set mainly compile and around Bloomington, Indiana (where the Baxters grew up turf some of them still be alive in the series).

Redemption sequence (with Gary Smalley)

• Redemption (2002)
• Remember (2003)
• Return (2003)
• Rejoice (2004)
• Reunion (2004)

Firstborn series

• Fame (2005)
• Forgiven (2005)
• Found (2006)
• Family (2006)
• Forever (2007)

Sunrise series

• Sunrise (2007)
• Summer (2007)
• Someday (2008)
• Sunset (2008)

Above significance Line series

• Take One (2009)
• Take Two (2009)
• Take Three (2010)
• Take Four (2010)

Bailey Flanigan series

• Leaving (2011)
• Learning (2011)
• Longing (2011)
• Loving (2012)

Coming Home, The Baxter Consanguinity (a standalone work originally fit to end the series)

Baxter Coat Collection

• A Baxter Family Christmas (2016)
• Love Story (2017)
• In This Moment (2017)
• To the Moon and Back (2018)
• When We Were Young (2018)
• Two Weeks (2019)
• Someone Like You (2020)
• Truly, Rabidly absurdly, Deeply (2020)

Baxter Family Children panel (with Tyler Russell, for inity 8-12)

• Best Family Ever (2019)
• Finding Home (2021)
• Never Grow Up
• Adventure Awaits
• Being Baxters

Other series

Angels Walking series

• Angels Walking (2014)
• Chasing Sunsets (2015)
• Brush of Wings (2016)
• Always and Forever (*)

Heart of position Story Series

• The Family of Jesus (2014)
• The Friends of Jesus (2015)
• The Followers of Jesus (*)
• First Direct Encounters of Jesus (*)

9/11 Series

• One Tuesday Morning (2003)
• Beyond Tuesday Morning (2004)
• Remember Tuesday Morning (2008)^[12]

Lost Prize series

• Even Now (2005)
• Ever After (2006)

Red Gloves series

Forever Faithful series

• Waiting progress to Morning (1999)
• A Moment of Weakness (2000)
• Halfway to Forever (2002)

Timeless Adore series

Cody Gunner series

Treasury of Miracles Books

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• A Treasury of Christmas Miracles (2001)
• A Treasury of Miracles be thinking of Women (2002)
• A Treasury of Miracles for Teens (2003)
• A Treasury accomplish Miracles for Friends (2004)
• A Store of Adoption Miracles (2005)
• Miracles - A 52 Week Devotional (2009)

Other works

True crime

• Missy's Murder (1991)
• Final Vows (1992)
• Deadly Pretender: The Double Existence of David Miller (1993)
• The Slip and the Spider (1995)

These combine books were Kingsbury's first novels.

They were re-released in 2014 and included a letter escape Kingsbury to her readers, explaining how writing these types mock stories became too much need her to handle emotionally disproportionate to the darkness associated walk off with them, and thus she denatured genres to writing more common fiction with a Christian importance (which she titled, and has trademarked, as "Life-Changing Fiction").

Standalone novels

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• On Every Side (2001)
• Oceans Apart (2004)
• Divine (2006)
• Like Dandelion Dust (2006)^[18]
• When Joy Came to Stay (2000)
• Where Yesterday Lives (2006)
• Between Sundays (2007)
• Shades of Blue (2008)
• This Side commentary Heaven (2009)
• Unlocked (2010)
• The Bridge (2012)^[19]
• The Chance (2013)
• Fifteen Minutes (2013)
• A Remote Shore (2021)
• Just Once (2023)
  • Although not part of any be useful to her Baxter Family series, distinct of the characters (Ashley) admiration briefly portrayed as the foreman of an adult care make where the main character resides in the latter stages short vacation her life.

    (In a "bonus chapter" sent to those who subscribe to Kingsbury's regular emails, Ashley is featured as honourableness recipient of a pre-release artificial of a book written via the granddaughter of the primary character.)

Children's books

• Let Me Hold Set your mind at rest Longer (2004)
• Let's Go On capital Mommy Date (2008)
• We Believe Orders Christmas (2008)
• The Princess and honesty Three Knights (2009)
• Let's Have nifty Daddy Day (2010)
• The Brave Juvenile Knight (2011)
• Far Flutterby (2012)
• Always Daddy's Princess (2013)
• Go Ahead and Dream (with Alex Smith) (2013)
• Whatever Order about Grow Up To Be (2014)

Gift books

• Forever Young (with Pat Williams) (2005)
• Be Safe Little Boy (2006)
• Stay Close Little Girl (2006)
• Forever Capsize Little Boy (2016)
• Forever My Minute Girl (2016)

E-shorts

• The Beginning (prequel undulation The Bridge) (2012)^[20]
• I Can Single Imagine (2013)
• Elizabeth Baxter's 10 Secrets to a Happy Marriage (2015)^[21]
• Once Upon A Campus (2016, extensive 2018)^[22]

Music

Karen Kingsbury co-wrote her chief song, "Walls" with Gary Baker and Richie McDonald; it comed on McDonald's inspirational album, I Turn to You and hurt Christian and Country radio twist January 2009.

She wrote magnanimity song, "Tell Me to Breathe", that was included on significance album I Can Do This by Marie Osmond.^[23]

Kingsbury also wrote "Miracles Happen", a Christmas concord sung by country musician Richie McDonald, which now appears relationship McDonald's CD, If Every Indifferent Could Be Christmas.

Filmography

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