Karen Ellinwood, Author
Born and raised in Long Island, New York, Karen Ellinwood practiced law for 13 years, primarily, in criminal defense in Arizona. She focused on sex and violent crimes and has tried over 50 serious felonies.
Ellinwood's work as a public defender in sex crimes informs the novel, Blood Sacrifice: Refusal to Protect. The protagonist struggles to maintain a place in her family and to work through her disdain for her mother who refused to protect her, telling her, your father is just being affectionate.
The faux autobiographical novel, JB Stearns, Vampire: A Life in Eight Ages, and the short fiction The Letters are inspired by the author's great-great-great grandfather, Junius Brutus Stearns (1810-1885), an Academician of the National Academy of Design and painter of the five-painting series on George Washington, including Washington as a Statesman, later the subject of a 1937 US Postage Stamp. Ellinwood's inspiration derived from conversations with her grandfather, A.H. Spear, Sr., an ardent stamp and coin collector, who created an unrivaled collection of 18th and 19th century wax seals and postal markings from Jamaica.
Other works of fiction include short stories and novels in progress, including Iris Waites: Munchausen's Girl, a story of woman who survived long-term arsenic poisoning at the hands of her mother.
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