Karen Ball Publishing Services

As the owner of Karen Ball Publishing Services, Karen has brought an abundance of experience to the table. She’s headed up the fiction program for four of the major Christian publishers (Tyndale, Multnomah, Zondervan, and B&H/Lifeway), and has worked with many authors over the years, from newbies to best-sellers, including Francine Rivers, Karen Kingsbury, Chris Heuretz, Angela Hunt, Brandilyn Collins, Robin Lee Hatcher, Terri Blackstock, Tricia Goyer, Mindy Starns Clark, Nadine Brandes, Chuck Black, and Carrie Turansky. She’s worked with numerous nonfiction authors as well.

In addition she’s an award-winning, best-selling author of fourteen books.

She’s loved editing, teaching, and coaching writers, and speaking at conferences, but she’s now retired from it all. She does still edit one author, but that is the extent of her work now in publishing.

She hasn’t decided if she’ll write again…she’s leaning into God for His wisdom and guidance on that. Right now she’s content to focus her time and energy on gardening, playing with the doggies, spending time with Don, and dealing with the varied health issues that keep popping up. She’s eternally grateful to God for granting her the deep blessing of working with so many amazing authors over more than 43 years!