Karen Jones presents new book The Summer of Grace

The Summer of Grace is a southern coming-of-age novel set in 1951 rural North Carolina that tells the story of a young girl’s transformation from victim to survivor through humor, hard truths and grace. From hunting for ancient graves with her cousin Jane, to learning life’s lessons from Miss Emily, to uncovering a timeworn promise that could reveal the family’s hidden past, Gracie blossoms like a flower unfurling in the sun.

Author, broadcast journalist and freelance writer Karen Jones is the author of The Summer of Grace, Up the Bestseller Lists!  A Hands-On Guide to Successful Book Promotion, Death for Beginners, and The Highland Witch.

Jones has fifteen years of experience in television news as an on-air anchor and feature reporter where she wrote and produced the Associated Press Award winning series The Haunting of Virginia. She co-directed the Chesapeake Writer’s Conference, was an advisor to The Bay School of the Arts, and is a member of the National League of American Pen Women, and the Authors Guild.

She has taught writing seminars at the University of Richmond, Christopher Newport University, and LSU. She has held week-long intensive writing camps for adults on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina and will be holding her next writing camp in Virginia’s Blue ridge Mountains.