KAREN SANDLER worked as a software engineer for nearly fifteen years. In 1995, she optioned her first screenplay, and in 1997 she sold her first novel to Kensington Publishing, with several more following thereafter. Karen's first young adult book, Tankborn, a dystopian science fiction, was released in 2011.
She's now writing a series of mysteries, featuring the wry, smart and tough San Francisco private investigator, Janelle Watkins.