Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

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  • A New Year’s Wish for Writers

    May we all find in 2016: “the best words in the best order” a horde of readers, all satisfied, challenged or entertained freedom for writers everywhere HAPPY NEW YEAR

  • How to Build a Novel

    A novel is a house you invite the reader to rent or to buy. How many rooms does it have, and is it welcoming? Are there clear passageways from room to room? How big is the garden? My six-book study shows me drastically different buildings by various contractors/builders/designers. I think of Neverhome as a vast open-air…

  • Says Who?

    Going back to the list of novels I’m analyzing (flip back to last week’s blog if you need to see the list), I had a breakthrough idea, or so it is for me. Maybe everyone else in the writing business has known this and hidden it from me. Shh, she has to figure this out…

  • New Sample @ KVDbooks Readers Page

    I just refreshed the Readers Welcome Here page. Retired Aunt Polly and gave you 556 words that sprouted from a writing prompt: What does the character have in his pocket. Enjoy.

  • The Big What If

    Here again are the six novels I’ve been studying in preparation for finishing the first draft of my own work in progress. 1000 White Women: the Journals of May Dodd, by Jim Fergus God Help the Child, by Toni Morrison Neverhome, by Laird Hunt Summer People, by Marge Piercy The Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood…