Tag: urban fantasy
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Cover Reveal: Mermaid Blogger
Here’s the cover for my upcoming book. Mermaid Blogger is the most difficult book I’ve worked on, because it’s very much its own thing and not related to the whole world I have established in Demonic Cafe. It draws on different life experiences, and it’s hard to know what feels like it belongs in the…
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Review: Sprinkles and Sea Serpents by Danielle Garrett
Once upon a time, a mystery author woke up and said “You know what would work really well? Writing a cozy mystery about someone who bakes cookies and cakes and stuff. Women would totally get into the baking food porn-aspect while they watch the heroine solve the mystery.” At a different time (but not that…
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Review: Demons of Good and Evil by Kim Harrison (The Hollows #17)
I said last year when I reviewed Trouble With the Cursed that I was locked into this series for the long haul, warts and all. Even so, this book was frustrating to get through. Now, I am aware that the level of scrutiny I’m about to submit this book to is high, and I doubt…
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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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Book 5? What Book 5?
I have deleted Demonic Cafe Book Five, Always A Golem, Never a Bride from Amazon. I initially said I wasn’t going to do this and just learn to live with it the way it is, but I realized I couldn’t do that. The book got a 1-star rating on Amazon, which is not in and…
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Review: Trouble With the Cursed (The Hollows #16)
WARNING: This review has spoilers. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with this series for over a decade now. I think the extreme reaction happens because I like the world Harrison has created so much, little inconsistencies or things that don’t make sense REALLY bother me, whereas I don’t care so much in most other series.…
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El Problem con la Magia Negra
I’m late to be posting about this, since it’s actually been available for a little while already, but the first book of Demonic Café is now available in Spanish. I’d like to get the word out on this so that the translator will get some more compensation, because she’s the one who did all the…
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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…
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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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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…
Karen L. Mead 