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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Review: Vampire Girl Series

December 03, 2019 One of the things I’d like to do on this author blog is review some series that are in my preferred genres, so why not start today? This is a little bit risky, because someone might react to a critical review by having their fans review-bomb my books, but I’m not going…

