Karen Healey | Chocolate in the Fruit Bowl

In less than a day I had been harassed, enchanted, shouted at, cried on, and clawed. I’d been cold, scared, dirty, exhausted, hungry, and miserable. And up until now, I’d been...

Karen Healey is a young adult author from New Zealand, currently based in Australia. Her first book, Guardian of the Dead, debuts April 1st, 2010. She likes World of Warcraft, movies about...

Guardian of the Dead

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Feb 5, 2010

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Eternal

So angel books are turning into the Big New Thing in YA – when will patupaiarehe and taniwha books be the big new thing, that’s what I want to know – and I read one of the forerunners yesterday, Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Eternal, which is about a fallen guardian angel and the girl he was supposed to be guarding who becomes… a VAMPIRE. Oh my lord I loved...

Feb 3, 2010

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Bones: I Love It So

Internets, I love Bones. It replaced Criminal Minds as my favourite crime show right about the time CM did an episode about evil child-stealing gypsies, and bonus, there’s generally only one victim! I love many, many things about this show, including interesting and improbable crimes, gender role trope inversion, the presence of women of colour (men of colour, not so much,...

Recently there has been a lot of talk, and quite rightly, about the publishing...

Guardian of the Dead

About Karen

Eternal

Bones: I Love It So

Cover Talk

They Made Cake!

Books Coming Out This Year That I Kn...

Juvenilia

Good News Day

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Karen and Friends

Publishing