About the Author

karenAs a child, Karen suffered frequent bouts of insomnia.The only way she could settle into sleep many nights was to imagine stories that played out like movies on the dark ceiling over her bed.Since her mean parents refused to replace the TV after the cat blew it up by peeing on the cord, all Karen had left to entertain herself in the lone wilds of the Minnesota wilderness were books and her own stories.As Karen grew, the stories grew with her.One day when she was fourteen, she told her mother one of these stories for probably the hundredth time.Her mother, who knew Karen very well, turned to her and said, “You know, Karen, you keep talking about these stories, but you never write them down.You keep saying you’re going to write a novel, but I don’t believe that you will.”This comment infuriated Karen so much that she started writing her stories down and hasn’t stopped since.

© Copyright 2009 K. Nilsen




Owning Your Shadow Part 3

link to YouTube video: https://youtu.be/t0lWFrO55vg While in the throes of the creative process, have you ever tried to force a creation to turn out a certain way?  Have you ever tried to force a story to follow a particular path?  Probably you have.  Probably we all have.  I know I have.  Now, have you ever […]

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Owning Your Shadow Part 2

Link to video on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/Dpv6g992iVM My mom said some strange things in the months leading up to her death.  Being ...

Owning Your Shadow, Part 1

Here is the link and the script for the first episode of my new YouTube series on the Reluctant Phoenix ...