Online Author Interview

May 4, 2009

Check out this new online interview of me at Cheryl Rainfield’s informative site. Cheryl is a avid reader, reviewer and author of fiction for teens. Her first novel Dragon Speaker: The Last Dragon will be published by HIP Books in September 2009.

Writing From the Inside Out

May 2, 2009

When a good story idea hits, it settles in my body and takes over completely. The character occupies my mind, inhabits me, makes unreasonable demands. I find the engine of a story inside myself, where experience and imagination connect. I believe that a story must inhabit a writer to ring true, and that writers must give themselves over to the story completely until it emerges, transfigured by that unique and magical place that is the writer’s imagination.

Karen’s Upcoming

In Cut the Lights, the director of a one-act play is at odds with her cast and crew until she learns some important truths about the fine art of directing. A debut in Orca Books' new Limelights performing arts series.

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