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

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

Cover Reveal: Virtually Guarded (Virtual Haven Pack book 1)

In September, I’ll be launching a brand-new series, and I have the cover art to show off today! Virtual Haven Pack is a direct spin-off of Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat, revolving around the admin team and members of an online video/text-based support group for LGBTQ+ werewolves. The groundwork for the support group (and, on 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