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 Latest

In the The Yo-Yo Prophet, 15-year-old Calvin becomes an overnight sensation as a yo-yoing street performer who thinks he can predict the future. To read an excerpt, click here. To view the book trailer, click here.

Did You Know …

  • Karen is currently President of CANSCAIP – the Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers.
  • The Yo-Yo Prophet is a 2011 Ontario Library Association Best Bets Honourable Mention.
  • Karen is a guest editor of Young Voices – the Toronto Public Library's magazine of teen writing and art.