Karen McCombie

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I'm back...

...from my holiday in Scotland, where it was snowing like crazy! Had a very groovy time, building snowmen and stomping through magical-looking woods, all snow-speckled (Milly said it was like Fairyland!). Best of all, our holiday house was just outside one of my favourite places – Ballater. It's a small town where I spent lots of holidays as a teenager, and it's where I set the fictional town of Balgownie in my novel 'Marshmallow Magic And The Wild Rouse Rouge'.
But hey, it's back to chilly, snow-free London now, and back to work! Will fill you in with all my latest bookie news soon...
Karen McCombie :c)

posted @ 19 April 2008 13:09 by Karen

Happy Easter holidays...

...if you're on holiday (which I know lots of you are, from the amount of excellent mail you've been sending me!). As for us in London, our school holidays start this weekend, when we're off to Scotland again, to a lovely-looking house deep in some woods. I've started packing already (thermals, wellies, woollies) for me, Tom and Milly.
Like I said, you have been sending some great stuff, and I promise I'll post a bunch soon - but between holidays and working day and night (as soon as Milly is tucked up!) on my current book (the next Sadie Rocks) I'm mega-hyper-busy, so please be patient with me, pretty please!
Much love to you, from me...
Karen McCombie :c)

posted @ 02 April 2008 20:44 by Karen

What's the secret of the 17 Secrets?

OK, so I got a couple of e-mails from Little Miss X and Zoe Goodall, who've come across mentions of 'The Seventeen Secrets Of The Karma Club' and asked me what it's all about... Well, it's my new novel, which is due to ping into bookshops in June this year.
Promise I'll tell you more about it soon. (All I'll say for now is that it features some weird knitting. Don't be scared.)
Karen McCombie :c)

posted @ 18 March 2008 23:12 by Karen

Just back from my mini-tour!

Last Thursday was World Book Day, so I was off on a mini-tour for a few days to celebrate. My travels took me to Mountain Ash Library in Aberdare, Wales; Bristol Brunel Academy; and The Storyteller Children's Bookshop in Exeter amongst others. Met some lovely people, so it's a quick "hello!" in particular to Anna, Lucy, Chloe, Sherrie, Poppy, Elsie, both the Hannahs, Adaiye and Matt!
Karen McCombie :c)

posted @ 11 March 2008 20:57 by Karen

If my cat Gus could talk, he'd be saying...

"What do you mean, I almost died? I feel fine! OK, so I can't remember much about last week, except for being stuck in a cage at that place you sometimes take me to – the place where everyone is friendly but then sticks a needle in your neck or a thermometer up your bum – but I don't think I was that bad. Anyway, even if I was, it doesn't matter, 'cause I'm great now. Though I do feel very hungry, like I haven't eaten for days ['You didn't!' – Karen] so if you could just up my meals from twice a day to nineteen times a day, that would be excellent. Prrrrrrp."
Gus the-definitely-not-dead cat
[Phew, and welcome home! KMcC]

posted @ 27 February 2008 19:48 by Karen

fingers crossed-ness update

OK, so I couldn't sleep last night – not 'cause my fingers were crossed, but because I couldn't stop thinking that Gus-cat was going to pop his small cat-clogs in the vet hospital he's stuck in.
This morning, it was all unchanged (ie, the vet said he was still v.ill), but tonight... they said he's a tiny bit brighter!
Going to try to sleep better tonight. OK, so the Guster is 14 years old (in his 70s in cat years?), but we can but hope, and see how how he's doing in the morning. (If he eats, and stops with the dia-doodah and vom, he gets home, basically.)
Please come home, Gus, you old dude – how can I write my books without you trying to sit on the keyboard while I type?
Karen McCombie :c)
PS Yes, I WILL be sleeping with my fingers crossed again tonight...

posted @ 21 February 2008 22:16 by Karen

Sigh...

Urgh... I'm feeling a bit blue today. Gus – the last of my gang of four cats – is pretty sick. He's been at the vets for two days now on a drip, as he's got a really bad gastric infection, the sort young cats would probably get better from really quickly, but he's an old boy now. Hey, you know what I'm saying.
Anyway, guess I'll be sleeping with my fingers crossed tonight...
Karen McCombie :c(

posted @ 20 February 2008 20:57 by Karen

A thing that makes me go BLEE!

You know something that really annoys me? Chain letters! They are so DUMB!! They are also completely RUBBISH and PANTS. I also don't like mean people, and mean people are those who sit in their rooms in front of their computer and think, "Hmm… I'm bored. Hey, I know! I could make up a nasty chain letter and e-mail it to people, and mess with their heads!"
So BOO to chain letters and BOO to mean people. If you get a chain letter, do the one thing that will disappoint the mean, bored person who made it up – dump it in your trash can. Then go and put on your favourite music loud, dance around the room and yell, "I'm too smart and wonderful to bother with dumb, made-up RUBBISH!".
Anyway, after getting a chain letter today, that's what I'm doing right now (to Kasabian's 'Empire', in case you wanted to know). Join me!
Lots of love,
Karen McCombie :c)

posted @ 06 February 2008 20:11 by Karen

WHAT ARE YOU DOING...

...reading this, when there's a great competition to enter? (I wouldn't mind winning £500 worth of TopShop vouchers!). Get clicking on the banner on the Home Page – and good luck!
Karen McCombie :c)
PS Hope you like 'Sadie Rocks' when you get a chance to read it!!

posted @ 15 January 2008 17:00 by Karen

Pleased to meet you!!

That's ALL of you who've been signing up on the site lately (wow, there's a lot of you, and from all around the world!). Hope you enjoy wandering around and noseying at stuff. I try to update as regularly as I can, so do check in now and again for new bits. And feel free to send me your 'Who Do You Love?' photos, 'Reviews' and 'Talk To Me' letters (I'll feature my faves), as well as 'Whees and Blees'. Like my old-skool fans already know, I do read (and LOVE to read) everything that gets sent in, but can't get back to you, 'cause (yep, some people will have heard this already), there's only one of me and gazillions of you, and I'd need an extra couple of days in the week to have time to get back in touch.
Anyway, glad to have you on board...
Mucho love,
Karen McCombie :c)

posted @ 08 January 2008 16:40 by Karen

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