Daniel Vettori is a Vampire
This is Daniel Vettori. He plays cricket* for New Zealand. He is also a vampire. Karen, you say, this is a startling claim! However did you arrive at this conclusion? Internets, I say, allow me to make my case. Exhibit A: Modern vampires are hot. Daniel Vettori** is hot: Exhibit B: Vampires don’t age, and neither does Daniel Vettori. Daniel Vettori has been a member of the New Zealand team since he was supposedly 18 years old BUT PROBABLY REALLY 97 or something. He looks 18 now, only to fool people that he is 32, the age he claims, he will sometimes grow a beard or sketch...
read moreResolution
Karen’s New Year Resolutions, All About Writing And Reading, Because She Is A Nerd: 1: Read all of Shakespeare’s plays that I haven’t read. Even the really boring history plays that go on forever and everyone is named after their title not their name and it gets super confusing because later on there are different people with the same title and omg do we hate Gloucester or like him right now? I want to do this because, what the hell, why not, I have read about half of them anyway in the course of my nerdy education/drama days. So fill out the course! Get my Shakespeare merit...
read moreAnd STAY out.
Good morning, Internets, and a very happy new year to you. I had planned to go to Christchurch and join friends for New Year’s Eve, but the recent quake and heavy aftershocks prompted a schedule change. Instead, I brought in the season playing cards with my mother and youngest brother, who insisted, after a few false starts, that we hold hands and sing Auld Lang Syne. There are many worse ways to greet the New Year than safe, warm, well-fed and singing with one’s family. And there may not really be any bad way to bid goodbye to 2011, a year that sucked most heartily on a number of...
read moreThat’s In A Name
I’m a nerd who lives on the internet and has a reasonably common name and a couple of email accounts, so I am often made aware of the existence of other Karen Healeys. Sometimes I learn about these other people who share my name when I get email intended for them. There’s a Karen Healey in the USA who is a deeply Christian woman with a large circle of friends who haven’t all updated their address books from a mistype a couple of years back. They are all very nice when I notify them of this error, and frequently promise to pray for me, which I’d rather they...
read moreRight.
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 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 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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