Many of those are on the shelves of libraries and bookstores around the world. Since then Karma has had more than 30 books accepted for publication. Her first book, Bear Snores On, was released in 2002. She wanted to put a few more good books on the library shelves and pay off that computer! Countless rejections and three years later Karma was finally accepted by book agent Steven Malk (who had already rejected her once, which she never lets him forget). Combining her desire to make the expensive computer pay for itself, her new-found typing skill, and her love of children’s literature, Karma started writing for children. With the money the family decided to invest in a computer. Trips to the library with her kids were a combination of emotions…a good book meant fun for all! But so many of the books weren’t what her children wanted to listen to. By that time Karma was a wife and the mother of three young children. At the age of 27 she realized that she still loved well-written children’s books of all kinds, from picture books to young adult novels. Karma never considered writing as a profession because her mother was a professional writer which made it seem like mundane work. Lewis, Terry Brooks, etc…) and historical fiction (L.M. Her reading preferences were fantasy (C.S. She was even known to try to read while riding her bike down dirt roads, which she does not recommend as it is hazardous to the general well being of the bike, the rider, and more importantly the book. Playing outdoors was fun, but reading was Karma’s “first love” and, by the age 11, she was devouring about a novel a day.

Karma did the only sensible thing a lonely little girl could do…she read or played outdoors. TV reception was limited to 3 channels, of which one came in with some clarity. Way back then (just past the stone age and somewhat before the era of computers) there was no cable TV and if there had been Karma could not have recieved it. Karma Wilson grew up an only child of a single mother in the wilds of North Idaho.

Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson