Karen Truesdell Riehl's writing achievements are remarkable, given her lifelong battle with dyslexia. Unable to read until the age of ten, her published works now include a memoir, Love and Madness: My Private Years with George C. Scott, telling of her 30-year hidden liaison with the international film star, five novels, eight plays and a radio comedy series, The Quibbles, available from ArtAge Publications at http://www.seniortheatre.com/product/the-quibbles-radio-shows/. Her children's play, Alice in Cyberland, was an award winner in the National Southwest Writers Contest.
The Ghosts of Fort Ord, inspired by living for a month near the abandoned military base.
Freedom's Sins, a story of scandals in a fictional Indiana town.
Saturday Night Dance Club, inspired by a true story of four couples, from the 1900's to 1930's, touched by the Great War, organized crime, the Depression and the threat of another war, finding sanctuary in their weekly dance club.
In the romance novel, Hello Again, Shannon Taggert falls in love with Nate, a graduate student teaching assistant. But there's another woman in Nate's life, Tally, the daughter of Walter, his mentor and benefactor. Before meeting Shannon, when Walter lay dying, Nate promised to marry his daughter.
Drawing from her own experience, Karen wrote Bad Girl: A Play. The Safe Haven Home for Unwed Mothers provides shelter from a judgmental society, but reveals its hypocrisy as well. The young women come from all levels of society: rich, poor, educated and uneducated. They share only their shame.
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