Karen Healey | Chocolate in the Fruit Bowl

Hello internets! Are you having a lovely summer/winter [delete whichever is inappropriate]? I sure am. I have been having a nice relaxing break of learning how to do front kicks and back...

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...

Events and Such

Posted by Karen on Jul 6, 2010 1

Guardian of the Dead

Posted by Karen on Jan 30, 2010 2

About Karen

Posted by Karen on Jan 30, 2010 3

May 11, 2010

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Adult Fic, I Read That Too

Oh, internets, it has been so long since I babbled at you about book related matters. And yet, books! They are the centerpiece of my life! So it is about time I did. I am a young adult fiction writer, and thus primarily a young adult fiction reader by both career and preference, but I also read adult books from time to time. Then I review them in dialogue style in a spoilerific...

May 1, 2010

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Queen of the Kitchen Update

Internets, you may remember the story I wrote and sent out last year in lieu of Christmas cards, Queen of the Kitchen. I really like that story, but it was looking a little sad on the page. What it needed, I thought, was colour. Life. ARTWORK. So I commissioned an illustration from K. Smirnov, and it is fantastic; exactly as I had imagined Caroline to look: I particularly love the...