Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

Book Giveaway on Goodreads

Three days left to enter for a random drawing of Accidental Child. Go to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/159154-accidental-child I’ll be back on Saturday with my usual blog. See you then. KD

October 26, 2015
7 Degrees of Connection

English novelist E.M. Forster said, “Only, connect.” Writers need other writers, not just their books, essays, and poems, but flesh and blood people. Well, the less blood spilled, the better. So here’s your assignment if you don’t already belong to a vibrant, extensive writing community. Scan bulletin boards at church, a coffee shop, your local community college;…

October 24, 2015
Doggone It!

I’ve gone to the dogs. By which I mean, dogs keep wriggling their way into the my fiction. If you’ve read Accidental Child, you know that a beagle named Otis figures significantly in the opening scene when he lunges to chase ducks and pulls his owner off balance. She falls and wakes up in another…

October 17, 2015
Read It Again

Read and reread, that’s what I did in school when I studied. My anatomy book was dog-eared by the end of the course. It felt like punishment, but rereading got me through all the sciences that I needed to learn as a nurse. Now I read mostly for pleasure, with a good dose of research mixed into…

October 10, 2015
Writing Is a Business

You see that title? Do you believe it? I do, I do, but I have not always acted on that belief. Well, this week I got fed up with the helter-skelter nature of my work and decided to do something about the practical side of life. Not the writing side. I’m compulsive about that, as my regular…

October 3, 2015