Winters, Kristine: - Kristine Winters is the pen name of Karma Brown, author of six novels including the #1 national bestseller Recipe for a Perfect Wife, the 2015 Globe & Mail Best Books Come Away with Me, and the nonfiction bestseller The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life. An award-winning journalist, Brown's writing has been published in Self, Redbook, Today's Parent, and Chatelaine. She's also one half of the writing duo behind The Holiday Swap and All I Want for Christmas by Maggie Knox. Brown lives just outside Toronto with her family and a labradoodle named Fred.