• 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.

    Parksville, Day 3

    Thetis Lake, Thursday

    Thetis Lake, Thursday

    More Photos

  • 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.

  • I Flock

  • Categories

I AM VERY BUSY AND IMPORTANT.

Posted on April 15th, 2010 by Karen

I have a blog?  WHA_HUH?  When did this happen?   Oh, I kid.   Sort of.   I mean, my memory is failing at a frightening rate.   But I do remember that I have a blog, I’m lying when I imply that I forget.   What happens is this: 1.  I think, “I have [...]

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Writers write. But sometimes they also go shopping, have a grilled cheese sandwich and read a book.

Posted on March 20th, 2010 by Karen

For the last little while, technically it will be a year in July, I’ve been working again.   And by “working”, I mean “writing” because that is the only work I know how to do.   I am between agents but I did sell my own WIP to a publisher and it will be out [...]

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What I Am Doing Right Now Is Not What I Am Really Doing Right Now. Which Is To Say That I’m Writing The Book, I Really Really Am.

Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Karen

This my writerly wisdom for the day:  The first part of writing a book is just a bunch of throwing words at the page and hoping they sprout.   Mostly it’s bad prose and overwrought phrasing and trying on different voices and sometimes it can make you twitch with anxiety because the story is THERE [...]

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Dear Nanowrimo, I suck, but I really DO like the coffee cup. It’s so nice. Thank you. Oh, and I quit. Sort of.

Posted on November 14th, 2009 by Karen

As you all know, I was doing Nanowrimo and as you also know, I was mostly doing it for the coffee cup because I like it and it says AUTHOR on it and makes me feel like a valid AUTHOR when I’m desperately gulping caffeine from the AUTHOR cup while doing non-AUTHOR things such as [...]

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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 is the King [...]

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