KAREN BALL has been blessed to use her love of story during nearly thirty years in publishing. Currently the owner/operator of Karen Ball Publishing Services, LLC, and a literary agent with the Steve Laube agency, Karen built and led fiction lines for Tyndale, Multnomah, Zondervan, and B&H Publishing Group. She’s acquired and worked with some of the top novelists in publishing, including Francine Rivers, Karen Kingsbury, Brandilyn Collins, Angela Hunt, Ginny Yttrup, and Robin Jones Gunn. In addition, Karen is a best-selling, award-winning novelist and a popular speaker. She lives in Oregon with her husband, her father, and three four-legged, furry “kids.”