Karen L. Mead

Funny urban fantasy

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    • Cassie and a Friend

      Cassie and a Friend

      This is the art for the first cover of Random Acts of Sorcery, back when the series had a different name. I should have gotten professional covers much earlier than I did (my biggest mistake in publishing, really) but I still have a lot of fondness for this image. I think the colors look really […]

      karenleslie47

      August 27, 2022
      Uncategorized
      Art, Covers, Demonic Café, urban fantasy
    • My Best Drawing, Evil Sam

      My Best Drawing, Evil Sam

      I think we can all agree that this is the best thing I have ever drawn, or will draw. Really, I can really stop drawing now– I mean, CLEARLY it’s all downhill from here. There’s no following this.

      karenleslie47

      August 26, 2022
      Uncategorized
    • 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 […]

      karenleslie47

      August 24, 2022
      Uncategorized
      memoir
    • Some of these drawings are weird

      Some of these drawings are weird

      Here’s another sketch from my seemingly limitless pile of old sketches of these characters. This was back when Sam and Aeka were the main couple, which is funny to me, because they have very little to do with each other nowadays. This is a really uncharacteristic sketch from me because of the OMG SEX kind […]

      karenleslie47

      August 22, 2022
      Uncategorized
      Art, Drawings
    • My next book is a little…fishy

      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 […]

      karenleslie47

      August 21, 2022
      Uncategorized
      Art, Cozy Mysteries, Drawings, urban fantasy
    • Familiars Squared

      Familiars Squared

      It was a while ago, but I think that when I drew this, I was starting to catch on to the fact that I wanted to take this story in a more fantasy direction. It was originally a kind of low-magic, magical realism-Haruki-Murakami-like-world, but once I came up with the idea of a tiny bat […]

      karenleslie47

      August 18, 2022
      Uncategorized
    • Aeka in Repose

      Aeka in Repose

      Back in the olden days, when dinosaurs walked the earth and I drew comics, Aeka (short for Agnieska) was actually the main female character. Now she’s still important but her role is quite different. But because she was a main character for so long, I have like a zillion drawings of her in all different […]

      karenleslie47

      August 17, 2022
      Uncategorized
      Art, Demonic Café, Drawings
    • Sam and Cassie Meet

      Sam and Cassie Meet

      Back a million or so years ago, when I was drawing a comic with proto-versions of these characters, Cassie and Sam had a very different dynamic. Here she’s just asked Dwight what would happen if she just didn’t wear her apron at work that day, and Sam sneaks up behind her and says “It would […]

      karenleslie47

      August 13, 2022
      Uncategorized
      Art, Demonic Café, Drawings
    • Review: Amethyst Witch by Barbra Annino

      Review: Amethyst Witch by Barbra Annino

      This book has been on my Kindle lockscreen on and off for several months, and though I wasn’t planning on reading it, I got curious wondering what Stacy was smirking about on the cover, so I gave in. Lockscreen ads work, at least if your book is free in Kindle Unlimited. What I didn’t realize […]

      karenleslie47

      August 12, 2022
      Uncategorized
      Cozy Mysteries, Reviews, Witch Cozy Mysteries
    • FanArt: Jean Grey from X-Men

      FanArt: Jean Grey from X-Men

      I have a ton of old art saved to my hard drive that has graced various websites and blogs over the years. I’d like for karenlmead.com to become my last website– wow, that sounds ominous. I just mean, I don’t want to keep jumping between blogs anymore. So I’d like to upload a lot of […]

      karenleslie47

      August 4, 2022
      Uncategorized
      Drawings, Fan Art
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