“...an upbeat, positive story...wise, hopeful...with a subtle simplicity sure to touch hearts.”—School Library Journal
"In a voice tinged with sadness, but strong in faith, she gives us a haunting and wistful blend of blues, folk, and Americana."—Tim Hoppey
Karen Pavlicin-Fragnito is a writer, publisher, speaker, advocate, and business leader who believes in the importance of community and the power of stories to transform lives.
Karen advocates on behalf of military families, writers, independent publishers, and women in business. She hopes that sharing the challenges and blessings of her own life story will inspire and make a difference for others.
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Published in the June 2018 issue of Books Make a Difference magazine. She views the world through the eyes of a poet. He constructs scenes with the curiosity of an investigative reporter. As coleaders of their signature Writeaways workshops, Mimi Herman and John Yewell balance differing viewpoints and teaching styles…
Published in the March 2018 issue of Books Make a Difference magazine. Mary Taris, founder of Strive Publishing, has a dream to publish children's books and young adult novels that inspire African-American youth to follow their dreams. “Students need books that are contemporary and relatable—books about families that look like…
Published in the March 2017 issue of Books Make a Difference magazine. Writers work so hard to find just the right words. Often, those words spill off the page into readers’ hands and, sometimes, into our hearts. They capture our feelings, stir our desires, push us in new directions, give…
Published in the June 2016 issue of Books Make a Difference magazine. We had a book-loving good adventure at Book Expo America 2016 in Chicago in May, looking for Books Make a Difference stories. Inspired by multi-faceted storytelling—from famous and beloved all-stars to emerging teen authors, singer-songwriters who speak in…
Published in the November 2015 issue of Books Make a Difference magazine. Award-winning illustrator Nina Victor Crittenden sits at her home studio and begins to paint. Shy and modest, she’s hesitant to talk about herself, but the words come easier as she strokes her watercolor brush across the back of…
Published in the March/April 2015 issue of Books Make a Difference magazine. Third-generation military wife Terri Barnes writes transparent, personal, and emotionally universal messages that have made her weekly Stars and Stripes column, Spouse Calls, the newspaper’s longest-running military life column. The relevance of her writing to both military and…
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