• I write books.

    I do! It's true. I have written for all sorts of different audiences. My first book was literary adult fiction and I've written many many books that have fallen into the category "juvenile fiction" and "YA fiction". I talk about my books and writing in general on my other site, which is at www.karenrivers.com. (I don't know how to make that a live link, so you may have to copy and paste.) (Sorry.) THIS site is about me, my hair, my kids, my appliances, and that time that I rode my bike down a cliff and then got stung by a bee. It may not all be appropriately awesome (or even slightly interesting) to kids, so if you are young, LOOK AWAY. That said, there is nothing harmful here, except the occasional swear, which I ask you to edit out with your eyes. Blink blink.

  • I take pictures.







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  • Is it safe to eat raw bacon?

    No. You shouldn't eat any raw pork products. You could get trichinosis and no doubt a number of other food-borne illnesses. With the recent change in food safety standards, I'd frankly cook the crap out of any meat product I purchased before eating it. Even if it's already cooked. Seriously. Keep in mind that I am not a raw bacon expert, I just play one on the web.

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NaNoWriMo, Baby. I Share Five Components Of My Book-To-Be. Steal It At Your Own Risk. Karma’s A Bitch, Dude. This Title Contains Both “Baby” and “Dude”. Who Am I?

Posted on October 24th, 2009 by Karen

It’s time once again for NaNoWriMo, which is just November in a fancy costume and with coffee mugs and t-shirts you can buy to validate your experience. (I bought the coffee mug, yes I did.) If you are me and are panicking and poor, you pretty much NaNoWriMo every month because Fear [...]

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My Stomach is Making Horrible Noises. Plus, Waiting For The Phone to Ring Rules! Except It Does Not Rule.

Posted on October 11th, 2009 by Karen

Yesterday, Clayton took the kids to his mum’s such that I could spend Saturday polishing my toenails and watching Project Runway writing one of the five books that I’m currently writing.   I know I mention this all the time, but that’s because I also am baffled about why I’m writing five books at [...]

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I live two lives. It’s the Gemini, people. There is something to astrology after all. Proof: I have two blogs.

Posted on May 9th, 2009 by Karen

I am cross-blogging today. That way, I feel like I’ve done a lot more than I have because it’s two two two posts in one. If you can’t live without a fresh blog post from me, here’s one about books and writing, complete with a picture of my feet, which if you [...]

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Torn Between Two (or more) Public-ish Personalities, Plus Will Ayelet Waldman Please Shut Up?

Posted on May 4th, 2009 by Karen

I was going to write a post called, “What To Buy For Your Wife For Mother’s Day Or Just Generally What To Buy For Me If You Want To Buy Me Stuff And Why Would You Because — Honestly — Do You Know Me Well Enough To Want To Buy Me Stuff? Not That [...]

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Five Books for Preschoolers that Will Make You Sob Like The Big Baby That You Really Are On the Inside.

Posted on April 8th, 2009 by Karen

These books will make you cry. Sometimes that’s not a bad thing. Sort of like a bruise that hurts when you push on it, you might find yourself reaching for one on a day when you think, “Nothing will spice up story time tonight more than if Mummy starts crying so [...]

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