Hey, authors!

If you've always wanted a book trailer, but couldn't afford it or thought they were cheesy -- and were specifically interested one of those swanky live-action trailers that are garnering attention, like this and this -- get in touch by e-mailing me at karen at studioosborne dot com or filling out my web form. I'm looking to expand my ( Read more... )

I know it must seem like I've dropped straight off the face of the Earth, but I've just been tremendously busy. For one, I spent a few months stepping in for a colleague as editor of a local newspaper while she was on medical leave, and also started my own business while I was doing so. And, as anyone who has ever started a small business knows, ( Read more... )

Did anyone else here watch Defying Gravity?

Okay, so it wasn't the best show on Earth. It suffered from the same snail-pacing problem as Kings, and went overboard on interpersonal drama. But, man -- it was scratching my space-opera itch before it became just another show where I'll never know what happens.

To me, what happened to Defying Gravity ( Read more... )

Old and Horrible Cliched Tropes That, Done Well, Never Cease to Make Me Happy -- And That My Enjoyment Of May Very Well Get Me Banned From Polite Society Forever:

Amnesia. I know it's so overdone -- but I love it when characters get amnesia, or have their memories wiped, or forget a former life, and I enjoy watching their discoveries as they realize ( Read more... )

Did you know that Reading Rainbow was cancelled? I just found out today. I can't tell you how much I loved this show when I was a kid. Along with Sesame Street and my Mom and Dad, it was one of the major forces that showed me that reading was cool, that reading was fun, and that I just loved books. Yeah, it was TV, but it was intelligent TV, and ( Read more... )

Massive spoilers and whingeing about reboot-Arthuriana, so it's cut --

( Oh, Pellinore. )

Who else watched NBC's slaughtered show Kings? What an absolute gem of a show. It started slow, of course, but by the end it had really reached a rolling pitch, and hit all my happy buttons -- great writing, political machinations, cheesy romances-of-fate, and Ian McShane's incredible performance as Silas. In addition, I love rolling in lascivious ( Read more... )

When I was in seventh grade, all of my friends were transferred to the new middle school across town and I found myself lonely, miserable, teased and eating lunch in tears every day. Luckily, I discovered that if I slipped through the back of the cafeteria kitchen, I came to a back hallway secret passageway that led straight to the library heaven ( Read more... )

While I was writing The War of the Faithful, I tried to listen to songs that "fit" the book's mood, and whenever I'd find something that was particularly resonant, I'd drag it to a separate playlist. So, in the case that I never let anyone read this -- it is my first novel, after all -- these are the twelve top singles off that playlist, in no ( Read more... )

The War of the Faithful
104,647 / 104,647 (100%)

I am grinning like a loon.

The last line of the book was written to the crescendo of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing." Oh, boy, does it need revision. But, still, it's my first novel-sized Draft Zero, and I am kind of proud of it. I hope it gets published someday, when it's spruced and spiffed and ( Read more... )