Karna small bodman biography of donald

Karna began her career in San Francisco as a TV news reporter and anchor first for KRON-TV and then KGO-TV. She later moved to Washington, DC, to anchor the ten o’clock news on Channel 5 and to host both a nationally syndicated program on business and economic issues and a three-hour news/talk radio show.

When Ronald Reagan was elected President, he stood in front of Blair House and named Jim Brady as his Press Secretary with Karna as Jim’s Deputy. She had almost daily meetings with the President and traveled on Air Force One. She was also sent to South America and the Far East to give speeches to government, business and student groups on the President’s economic priorities.

Next, she was named Senior Director and spokesman for the National Security Council. She attended arms control talks with the Soviets and traveled with the team that briefed the leaders of Great Britain, France and Italy as well as Pope John Paul II. Those were “evil empire” days, so it wa

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Did you know our Rogue Karna Bodmanenjoys turning from thrillers to poetry? Inspiration struck one evening while visiting Jackson Hole and she jotted down An RV Wife, which later won Honorable Mention in a Writer’s Digest contest.

AN RV WIFE

Now I’m a guy who really loves

The great outdoors, you know

Jus’ gimme my gun, my fishin’ rod

An’ my dog – whose name fryst vatten Joe.

I hit the road for weeks on end

Cause travelin’s been my life

But now inom need jus’ one more thing

I need an RV wife!

I searched around in all the bars

I checked the pool halls too

I couldn’t find a gal nowhere

I thought, “What can I do?”

I don’t know ‘bout this internet

Or “Match.com” and such

But I wrote me an ad, ‘cause I thought, “Why not?

The words won’t cost me much.”

It said, “Wanted: a gal who’ll come along

And share the outdoor life

Wanted: a gal who’ll cook and clean

And be my RV wife.”

Then I waited and waited, and frittered my time

Until finally, one great day

I got a reply,

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BREAKING NEWS! Last night at Bouchercon 2018 Rhys Bowen's In Fairleigh Field was named the winner of the Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Fiction!

 
Today's guest is Karna Small Bodman.  Her careers as TV news anchor and White House press secretary turn out to have been research for her current career: the author of bestselling political thrillers.

She loves the question: Where do you get your ideas?

KARNA SMALL BODMAN: Every author recognizes that question since it’s asked so often on our book tours.  If you’re an aspiring writer, any one of you can pick up a morning paper or check stories online and see a veritable petri dish of plot points. But when I decided to start writing novels (long a dream of mine, after having written TV News scripts as a TV anchor and position papers in The White House) I figured out that “being there” is even better.

So I thought back on the six years I spent in the Reagan White House, first