About Karyne
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Epic Fantasy & Sci-fi Author
Karyne Norton
Karyne Norton hasn’t found the key to time travel, immortality, or infinite lives, so she’s taking a break from nursing and photography to focus on raising four human beings while writing epic fantasy and science fiction. Her debut novel, Blood of the Stars, launched on Kickstarter in September 2023 and came to retailers March 2024.
When she’s not writing, she’s reading, which is why she’s also the host of the Finding Fantasy Reads podcast, where she reads a new short story every week from a variety of fantasy authors. Check it out to find your next favorite author!
Epic Fantasy & Sci-fi Author
Karyne Norton
Karyne Norton hasn’t found the key to time travel, immortality, or infinite lives, so she’s taking a break from nursing and photography to focus on raising four human beings while writing epic fantasy and science fiction. Her debut novel, Blood of the Stars, launched on Kickstarter in September 2023 and came to retailers March 2024.
When she’s not writing, she’s reading, which is why she’s also the host of the Finding Fantasy Reads podcast, where she reads a new short story every week from a variety of fantasy authors. Check it out to find your next favorite author!
The full story…
Karyne Norton wrote her first chapter book at nine years old. Her third and fourth grade teachers predicted she’d be an author someday.
Over the years her writing muse was distracted by nursing school, photography, a husband, and kids. When she moved to Rwanda for 19 months, the lonely expat life gave her time to write the fantasy novel she’d always wanted to read.
Currently she lives in Arizona with her high school sweetheart/husband and four kids. Because she hasn’t found the key to time travel, immortality, or infinite lives, she’s taking a break from nursing and photography to focus on raising four human beings while writing epic fantasy and science fiction. Her debut novel, Blood of the Stars, launched on Kickstarter in September 2023 and came to retailers March 2024.
When she’s not writing, she’s reading, which is why she’s also the host of the Finding Fantasy Reads podcast, where she reads a new short story every week from a variety of fantasy authors. Check it out to find your next favorite author!
You can connect with her best on Instagram, Goodreads, or by email.
Sign up for her newsletter below to get monthly updates and fun freebies.
During that time she also wrote a guest blog post for Dan Koboldt’s Science in Sci-fi/Fact in Fantasy blog about medical misconceptions in fiction. It stemmed from all the inaccuracies that frustrated her (and her nursing friends) in books and movies. To this day, she has trouble reading and watching scenes depicting childbirth, because they rarely match up with her twelve years of experience as a labor and delivery RN.
That post was eventually included as a chapter in the Writer’s Digest book, Putting the Science in Fiction.
Since moving back to the States she’s written seven more novels, and she’s hard at work on her ninth. As a reader and writer she either wants science fiction that’s light on the science and heavy on the fiction or fantasy that’s focused on the people more than the place.
The full story…
Karyne Norton wrote her first chapter book at nine years old. Her third and fourth grade teachers predicted she’d be an author someday.
Over the years her writing muse was distracted by nursing school, photography, a husband, and kids. When she moved to Rwanda for 19 months, the lonely expat life gave her time to write the fantasy novel she’d always wanted to read.
During that time she also wrote a guest blog post for Dan Koboldt’s Science in Sci-fi/Fact in Fantasy blog about medical misconceptions in fiction. It stemmed from all the inaccuracies that frustrated her (and her nursing friends) in books and movies. To this day, she has trouble reading and watching scenes depicting childbirth, because they rarely match up with her twelve years of experience as a labor and delivery RN.
That post was eventually included as a chapter in the Writer’s Digest book, Putting the Science in Fiction.
Since moving back to the States she’s written seven more novels, and she’s hard at work on her ninth. As a reader and writer she either wants science fiction that’s light on the science and heavy on the fiction or fantasy that’s focused on the people more than the place.
Currently she lives in Arizona with her high school sweetheart/husband and four kids. Because she hasn’t found the key to time travel, immortality, or infinite lives, she’s taking a break from nursing and photography to focus on raising four human beings while writing epic fantasy and science fiction. Her debut novel, Blood of the Stars, launched on Kickstarter in September 2023 and came to retailers March 2024.
When she’s not writing, she’s reading, which is why she’s also the host of the Finding Fantasy Reads podcast, where she reads a new short story every week from a variety of fantasy authors. Check it out to find your next favorite author!
You can connect with her best on Instagram, Goodreads, or by email.
Sign up for her newsletter below to get monthly updates and fun freebies.