Karen Kingsbury - N.Y. Times Bestselling Author
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Episode 524
Karen Kingsbury and her husband Don are our guests today on the podcast. Karen is a #1 New York Times bestselling novelist with more than twenty-five million copies of her award-winning books in print. Her last dozen titles have topped bestseller lists and many of her novels are under development with Hallmark Films and as major motion pictures. Her Baxter Family books are being developed into a TV series slated for major network viewing sometime in the next year.
In her former life, Karen was a sports writer for the Los Angeles Times in the 1980's and covered stars like Magic Johnson and Wayne Gretzky. Her husband Don is a longtime basketball coach who most recently served as an assistant coach with Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville.
On today's podcast, we talk to Karen and Don about their journey of marriage, Karen's success as a writer, how sports has played a role in their life and how Covid-19 presented Karen a unique opportunity with the release of her new book.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano, my email address, Jason Romano. Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:22.0 | I am Jason Romano, my email address, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:26.4 | Love to hear from you. |
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| 0:28.8 | Any thoughts on today's interview with Karen Kingsbury and her husband, Don. |
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| 1:01.8 | Ronblue.com. Today on the show, we welcome Karen Kingsbury, the New York Times best-selling |
| 1:10.2 | novelist. |
| 1:11.4 | If you read Christian fiction and sort of that family style type of books, |
| 1:17.7 | Karen Kingsbury is a legend in that world. |
| 1:21.1 | Like I said, New York Times best-selling novelist. |
| 1:23.9 | And her husband, Don, also joins us. |
| 1:25.8 | So Karen has a sports connection here. I promise you. She was a |
| 1:29.3 | sports writer with the LA Times and also wrote for the LA Daily News. And her first book, |
| 1:35.1 | Missy's Murder, was published in 1991. And since then, she's written more than a hundred books, |
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