Healer's Magick Tapa blanda - 2015

F. L. Karsner is a fifth generation Floridian who grew up in a rural Panhandle village near Tallahassee. In the late 60's, she married a Navy Ensign and followed him from Florida to the South Pacific island of Guam. It was in the Navy that she first experienced different lands, peoples, and cultures all of which would forever influence her view of the world. On returning to Florida, she and her husband raised two daughters. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Jacksonville University, became a Registered Nurse, and began to pursue her love of the art and science of medicine. The care of cardiac patients took her from the nursing floor to the cardiac catheterization laboratory to clinical research, ultimately becoming a Certified Clinical Research Professional. To maintain her interest in the arts, she painted, created pottery, and sang in the Sweet Adelines as she moved from Florida to Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and finally back to the Sunshine State. At the millennium, she was President of her own consulting company which provided clinical research services to the domestic and international pharmaceutical markets. Today, she lives with her husband on the Intracoastal Waterway in Ponte Vedra Beach surrounded by the marsh, two rivers, a resident eagle, and untold hawks, egrets, raccoons and slithery friends. Her new novel, HEALER'S MAGICK, is the first in a magical realism series set in the 18th century Scottish Highlands. She can be reached online at flk@flkarsner.com.