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

Welcome to the Karennaverse…

Sometimes I look at the universe I’ve created for my books and think, “Holy heck… *I* did that?” I started creating my paranormal romance universe, which I’m now calling the Karennaverse because it amuses me to do so, back in 2010, when an author friend’s question of “How could a werewolf be vegan” led to READ MORE

Real Werewolves Is Complete!

On Thursday, July 9, I released Figs till the End, book 10 of my Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat series. This is intended to be the final book of the series… though that’s what I thought back in 2014, when book 5, Tempeh for Two, was originally published. Obviously, as I started revising and updating 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

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

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

Much Ado about Muesli is live!

I haven’t blogged for a few weeks. Between the losses in my family and the holidays, it just…Well, I just didn’t blog. But I’m here today to say that Much Ado about Muesli (Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat 9) is now available! I released the book on Thursday, Jan. 8, and it’s already gotten a 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

I Want to Write a Christmas Story…

I want to write a Christmas story.Naturally, because I *want* to write, my brain is like, “Nah, that’s no fun, here, have a blue screen of doom instead.” Because that’s usually what happens when I try to write a story that isn’t a direct part of one of my series. (And sometimes even when I READ MORE