Join Rogue Karna Small Bodman on Wednesday, December 2 starting at 7:17 pm EDT on the radio program Starstyle®-Be the Star You Are! Host Cynthia Brian will interview Karna live about her novel TRUST BUT VERIFY, which features a member of The White House staff and an FBI Special Agent who...
HANDLING HALLOWEEN
by Karna Small BodmanNow that Halloween will be “celebrated” this coming weekend in the midst of Covid precautions – how do we keep our children, and everyone else, safe?In searching for ideas, I first checked if the CDC might have put out any guidelines. And, sure enough our Center for Disease...
ROGUE FLASH: Karna Small Bodman Wins Silver Medal
TRUST BUT VERIFY was awarded the honor Saturday, September 19th at the 2020 Annual Awards Banquet of the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA), the culminating event of the 2020 MWSA Virtual Conference. MWSA is a nationwide association of authors, poets and artists whose work honors the...
HUMOR IN CHALLENGING TIMES
by Karna Small Bodman A fellow member of the Author’s Guild suggested we create a thread of “Author Humor” to break up the monotony of always dealing with serious subjects of late. It is certainly true that authors are serious about doing excellent research, describing accurate locations,...
THE VERY BEST COMPANIONS
by Karna Small BodmanAs we have been “hunkered down” for so many months, here’s a question for you: besides families, of course, who has turned out to be a most comforting companion to millions of people, especially those living alone? The answer is dogs! Even before the pandemic, we loved living...
SUPPORTING LOCAL BOOKSTORES
by Karna Small BodmanEven before Covid-19 forced many bookstores to close, several faced the challenge of online shopping and the rising popularity of e-books vs. the print variety. Now that we all have been spending more time at home, working virtually, self-quarantining and all the rest, people...
THE APPEAL OF AUDIO BOOKS
by Karna Small BodmanMany of us are still hunkered down working from home, while others are slowly getting back to their jobs. For those returning, instead of using crowded public transportation, some are driving to work when they can. It turns out that for both the at-home crowd, along with the...
STAYING CONNECTED
by: Karna Small Bodman During these challenging times when many of us are “locked down” so to speak, we are lucky if we have the companionship of a spouse, a friend and especially a dog! In fact, in what must be “sympathy for our solitary status” our little “Cammy” figured out the best way to...
WHAT ROGUES ARE READING NOW
by Karna Small Bodman With most everyone hunkering down at home (when possible) during this challenging time, at least we can read a good book. And with that thought in mind, I asked fellow Rogues what they are reading right now – what books are on the...
YOU NEVER FAIL UNTIL YOU QUIT
by Karna Small BodmanI’ve always liked that quote in the title. I’ve seen it play out in my own writing life as well as in many others. Before I wrote my first thriller, Checkmate, I wrote two light-hearted novels and collected close to 50 rejections from various agents and editors. Disheartened...