00:05my name is Karen Woods and I'm hailed as the Northern Martina Cole at the age 39 I
00:12struggled with reading and writing and through my employer I attended an adult
00:16literacy course that course changed my life not only did I come out away from
00:21there with being able to read and write I come away with a dream dream of
00:26becoming an author
00:31Broken Youth was my first novel and it was a bestseller on Amazon absolutely loved
00:36it to date I have 27 novels that I penned I signed a book deal with Harper North
00:43and I'm known as the Manchester Queen of Crime
00:52I love writing it's a hobby for me I tell stories that happen behind everybody's doors
00:57characters we can identify with people we see on the street every day people ask me how I write do
01:05I
01:05have a storyboard do I plan all my stories and the answer is no I get my laptop from upstairs
01:12I plunk
01:13myself on the sofa the TV's on family is just doing what they do around me and I
01:19just go into this world where all these characters come to life
01:28all these words that I have now I never had when I was 39 and they I do believe
01:35words have power because since I found my voice I speak for a nation of women strong
01:40women be a success by our own dresses we're women who have determination we're
01:47women of substance and I'm here to put us all on the map
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