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My fabulous sister currently has a job at a dairy farm, which entails getting up at 4am, bossing cows around, coming home at about noon, and going back to work in the evening until about six or seven. Then she comes home, washes the cow poop out of her hair, and goes for a hearty run. I tend to go to bed at 4am, and wake up at noon (which is convenient for hang-out potential!), the closest I generally come to a cow is deciding which part of it to eat, and… well, I do actually enjoy jogging, but my version of it involves running until I get tired, walking until I feel like running again,...
read moreBook Mini-tour in the USA!
Internets, or that part of it which lives in various parts of the USA, would you like to meet me? Would you like me to chat with you and tell you things and maybe sign any books you have with you? They don’t actually have to be my books. I once signed a copy of Sarah Rees Brennan’s The Demon’s Covenant with my name. I believe the salutation was, “Dear [Reader], I wrote this book. Happy reading!” But in case you would like me to sign the books that I wrote, I can do that too. Yes, it’s mini-tour time! SAN DIEGO Thurs 27 Oct, 7pm: Diversity in YA event! San...
read moreCreepy Cake N Bake: Dark Chocolate Teacup Puddings
Mmm, bakery. I love baking. I like weird things. I like doing weird things with baking. But after the delicious mess that was Dead Dinosaur Trifle earlier this year, I feared that I wouldn’t be able to top myself for the Creepy Cake N Bake-a-thon, where authors bake things in a TERRIFYING manner. So I went simple, and, in keeping with the theme, I went dark. This recipe is not suitable for vegans, people with coeliac disease, or people with tree-nut allergies (although you can probably substitute the heck out of things at will). All photos illustrate the text without any additional...
read moreAnxiety, Keri, and Me
So my friend John runs this thing where he invites people to talk about the Big Idea that lies behind their novel. Wherein! I talk about my anxiety disorder, and The Shattering, and where Keri came from without me realising it. But of course Keri wasn’t really like me. She was a biracial teenager from a low-income family who wasn’t afraid of physical violence and loved sports. I was a white woman in my late twenties who shied away from physical confrontation and thought that sports were doubtless very nice for those who enjoyed them. I had far more in common with the other two narrators;...
read moreHow To Make A Birthday Cake
Your friend Tessa is turning thirty! She is going to celebrate this in your favourite cocktail bar, 1806, where they make the bitter chocolate martinis just right. Clearly, the classy thing is to bake her a birthday cake in the shape of a dinosaur and bring it to the bar. Here are the step-by-step instructions! 1: Search the internet for dinosaur cake pans. Bemoan the lack of selection. Find a perfect one for super cheap – so cheap that shipping more than doubles the price. Bonus! Click order. 2: Inform your and Tessa’s mutual friends that you are going to bring her a dinosaur...
read moreAbout Karen
Karen Healey is a young adult novelist. She is the author of the urban fantasies GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD and THE SHATTERING, both set in New Zealand, and the forthcoming sci-fi adventure WHEN WE WAKE. GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD won the 2010 Aurealis Award for Best YA Novel and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award. Karen can tell you a lot about baking, covers of "Hallelujah" and superhero comics.
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