The family lives on a small acreage outside of Louisville where Robards does her writing in a carriage house behind the family home. Robards and Doug, her husband of 22 years, have three sons aged two, seven and 14. Earlier in her career Robards wrote two books a year, and though now she is only contractually bound to do one, she feels as though she could do more. Fast-paced romances with elements of mystery and intrigue, Robards plots move nearly as quickly as the books themselves leave the stores. A native of Kentucky, her voice is full of the American South: pleasing, smoky tones in no hurry to get anyplace fast. Robards is full of surprises and pleasant contradictions. But Robards talent - and her career - sometimes work in mysterious ways. Robards denies any connection - even a fictitious one - between Clinton and the philandering senator that's married to the star of The Senator's Wife. Not only is the novel political in theme, but a wayward senatorial husband is said to be, doing a Clinton when fighting back from the bad press that would otherwise ruin his career. It was, for Robards, a joyous bit of timing: one that hasn't hurt the book's sales any, either. In an eerie stroke of timing, Robards' The Senator's Wife was released in the same spring week that the name Monica Lewinsky flew into the public eye. There are likely people in Washington wondering where Karen Robards got her crystal ball.
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