Karen Pullen left a perfectly good job at an engineering consulting firm to make her fortune - (er, maybe not) - as an innkeeper and a fiction writer. Her B&B has been open for 12 years, and her fiction has been published in Every Day Fiction, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and Spinetingler. Her first novel, a traditional mystery called Cold Feet, was released by Five Star in 2013. She has an MFA from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine on beautiful Casco Bay. It's the only low-residency MFA with a Popular Fiction track - a cool program (and cold in the winter...)! She lives in the very small town of Pittsboro NC with her husband, her father and four spoiled cats.