{"bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Who Am I?\r\n\r\nWhen I was a young wife my husband died. The days, weeks, and months after that event were dark and difficult. A few years later I lost my oldest son.\r\n\r\nThrough both tragedies, books were my salvation. I immersed myself in other times and places, with different people. I went through hundreds of books and discovered that I didn\u2019t want to read non-fiction, biographies, or those dour tomes labeled literary books. I wanted books where people were guaranteed a happy ending.\r\n\r\nI\u2019ve never forgotten how important that escape was for me.\r\n\r\nWhat I want to offer you is a way to put the world on hold for a few hours or days. You\u2019ll meet people who might be suffering or have suffered. They might be foolish or just stupid. They might have too much pride or too little courage. Through the course of a book they have to earn their happy ending but they\u2019ll get it.\r\n\r\nWhen you finish the book, I hope you sigh in satisfaction, feel refreshed, and more capable of taking on your own world."}, "personal_name": "Karen Ranney", "alternate_names": ["Katherine Storm"], "photos": [7258756], "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2013-06-29T22:14:46.436960"}, "latest_revision": 4, "key": "/authors/OL40771A", "name": "Karen Ranney", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "revision": 4}