Just announced: The Whip won the 2013 National Indie Excellence Award for Best Western Read More
Monterey County Weekly: Roughin’ It – A Stagecoach Driver’s Central Coast Adventures – and secret life. Read the article
The Whip featured on The Spirited Woman Top 12 Spring Reading list! Click here to view the list and find out more about Spirited Woman, one of the leading women’s empowerment communities in the world.
The Whip Voted #1 on Goodreads.com poll: Books That Should Be Made Into A Movie. Click here to vote!
Karen Kondazian makes her 2nd appearance on the Jan Wahl Show – KRON 4, San Francisco. Click here to watch.
Advocate.com: The Whip: Straddling Gender Roles in the Wild West by Nick Pachelli. Read the article.
The Whip featured on Heidi M. Thomas’ blog. Heidi is a WILLA Literary Award and Epic Award Winner. Read the blog.
The Whip is a “Featured Western” on Western E-books.com. View the page.
USABookNews.com, the premier online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of THE 2012 USA BEST BOOK AWARDS on November 16, 2012. Winners and finalists were announced in over 100 categories covering print, e-books and audio books. Awards were presented for titles published in 2012. The Whip won the 2012 USA News Book Award Best Historical Fiction.
The Whip featured on the cover of Publishers Weekly.
Watsonville’s Register-Pajaronian article: Novel about local legend Parkhurst earns award. Read the article.
Karen Kondazian’s Critically Acclaimed Novel The Whip to be Released by Audible.com as an Audiobook. View the audiobook.
Art Kusnetz The Cafe interview w/ Karen Kondazian. Read the interview.
Bookotron.com article - Karen Kondazian Cracks ‘The Whip’
NBC/ABC Monterey Highlights Karen Kondazian and The Whip – New novel details legendary Watsonville woman’s life. Watch the video.
Metamorphosis – Janice Brooks on The Whip in Elan Woman’s Magazine. Read the article.
The Hot Mommas Project: The Whip: Celebrate Social Justice, Women’s Leadership, and Win. Read the article.
KRON/NBC’s Jan Wahl discusses why The Whip would make a great film. Read the article.
The Whip excerpt from book featured on Huffington Post. Read excerpt.
Bookpleasures.com Norm Goldman interviews Karen Kodanzian. Read the interview.
Fountain Theatre Actress Karen Kondazian at Book Soup. Read the announcement.
Peter Robinson interviews Karen Kondazian for The Commuter Times. Read the interview.
Women Writing the West Blog post. Read the post.
The Whip still #1 on the Book Soup Bestseller List for a 2nd week in a row. See the list.
Book tour for The Whip begins in Watsonville, CA. Read more here.
Read the Watsonville’s Register-Pajaronian article.
Read how Kondazian liberates Charley Parkhurst’s story in her novel The Whip.
Read the Fountain Theater Blog interview with Karen Kondazian.










