I’ve been busy over the past couple of weeks. Mostly with the release of Virtually Guarded, book 1 of the new Virtual Haven Pack series, which came out on Thursday, Sept. 10. So far, some readers are loving the story of transgender werewolf Ren Torres and his mate, gentle giant bodyguard Xavier Pelly. Some readers READ MORE
Category: Writing
How My Universe Works
(Or…Welcome to the Karennaverse.) I was thinking about all the characters I’ve created for my werewolf books, and how many of them could spin off into their own stories. As of the last time I actually counted, I have somewhere around 400 *named* characters across all of my werewolf books. That includes a few who READ MORE
Where It All Started
16+ years ago, I was a member of a Yahoo group. Most of the other members were romance authors, along with a blogger and an editor or two. One day, one of the other members, in reference to a book she’d heard about, asked how a werewolf could be vegan. (The book, if I remember READ MORE
Getting to Know a Character
It’s interesting to me when I write how, no matter the amount of planning I do before I start, the characters always reveal things about themselves as I go. I didn’t, for example, know until I started writing the story that Bailey Griffin, one of the main characters in my current work in progress, would READ MORE
I Released a Book!
On Thursday, I released Return and Restore, book 4 of my Ebb & Flow series. In keeping with my usual struggles to figure out how to promote my books, I haven’t seen the response I had hoped for from this release. But people are reading it, and it’s gotten some glowing reviews, which makes me READ MORE
How I Spent My Weekend
On Wednesday night, I set myself the goal of spending the next 5 days (Thursday-Monday) going through the notes in the manuscript I’d just gotten back from my amazing beta reader and editing the manuscript according to the notes and to whatever I noticed that needed to be edited. After a conversation with my beta READ MORE
Many Things Happening
And as often occurs, that’s led to me not keeping up with blogging, though I didn’t realize it had been an entire month since the last time I posted! So, what’s been going on with me… I finished the first draft of Virtually Guarded, book 1 of my new Virtual Haven Pack series. This book READ MORE
Overwhelmed
Sometimes life is just a lot. I live with depression and Complex PTSD, which can make even a little feel like a lot sometimes, but then there are stretches like the one I’m currently in, when I have a bunch of different things I need to do and can’t seem to organize my time and READ MORE
This is why I write…
I was just checking the Amazon reviews of Much Ado about Muesli (Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat 9), and reader N M Harvey said this: “I love it when authors write about what people who have PTSD go through. I live with extreme PTSD, so to be able to read about others who live through READ MORE
I Love My Universe
On Monday, I started a new book. Specifically, book 10 of my Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat series. This one’s a little bittersweet for me. Originally, back in 2011-2014, RWDEM grew to a 5-book series. Book 5 was intended to be the final book, had a distant-future epilogue, and so on. And that book, published READ MORE
