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Changing Prices
Hi all, I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Right now, I’m in the process of making Demonic Cafe Books 1-5 free on Amazon and other vendors like Barnes & Noble, Hoopla and Apple Books. In order to do this, I have to take the books out of Kindle Unlimited, which means I’m…
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Welcome to Starbucks Westeros
(Originally posted on May 6, 2019 on Otakusphere.com) In the latest episode of HBO’s popular medieval fantasy series Game of Thrones, a disposable coffee cup was visible on screen during a feast at Winterfell. Most viewers thought this was simply a production goof, however, those of us who have read the books and all of the…
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Game of Thrones Showed The Failings of Punching Up
(originally posted on Otakusphere.com on June 4, 2019) Many viewers were disappointed by the final episode of HBO’s fantasy behemoth Game of Thrones, but I was not one of them. While invested in the story to some extent, for a long time, I’ve valued the series as a pop-culture phenomenon rather than a narrative, and in…
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Review: Good Omens
(Originally posted on Otakusphere.com on July 5, 2019) The book version of Good Omens occupies an odd place in my personal pantheon. I have great fondness for it, yet even at the time I first read it (sometime in the mid-90s), I wasn’t convinced it all came together that well. Like some of the middle volumes in…
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ABCD, Part One
Writing Class Week One Preamble: I will write an ABCDerian piece in the first person that seems to focus on food, but the focus will really be on the narrator’s struggles with depression and OCD. A is for Arugula What is arugula, anyway? It’s a salad green, but is it one of the bland ones…
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The Sweetest of All Peas
This is a short piece I wrote about reading to my daughter. At night, it’s always Sweet Pea. During the day I call her “Sweetie”, or sometimes “Little Guppy” in the summer, because she swims a lot in the summer, but after story time, always Sweet Pea. “Good night, Sweet Pea. Have sweet dreams and…
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Grilled Cheese Meltdown
The following is a short piece I wrote on the subject of being in the hospital for a week. *********************************************************************** I don’t know how it’s possible to make a completely tasteless grilled cheese sandwich, but somehow, the hospital managed. There’s no sign of the grill, no unctuous cheese seeping out of the concoction—it’s somehow dry…
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My next book is a little…fishy
I’m taking a short break from Demonic Café to finally write the mermaid book I’ve been threatening to write for ages. I like what I have of it so far, but it’s difficult. The stakes are much lower than they are in Demonic Café, but there still needs to be urgency to what’s happening…I’m not…
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Penguin of Fortune got a new cover
Looks much more professional now, right? Seeing my name all in red makes me feel like I’m James Patterson or something. I think it would be worth the effort to promote PoF on Amazon because there is WAY more stuff about shifters around now than there were waaaay back in 2015…crap, this book is older…
Karen L. Mead 