Karen DeLabar

Author: Karen DeLabar

  • New Review of the Serial Bone Wires by Michael Shean

    When I last reviewed Michael Shean's Bone Wires, a cyberpunk noir featured weekly on Curiosity Quills, Detective Daniel Gray had just found the first homicide victim missing his spine. Now in its fifteenth week, two more bodies were discovered with their spines removed adding pressure on Gray to solve the case. Since the beginning of…

  • Interview with Michael Shean author of Shadow of a Dead Star

    Oh happy day! Michael Shean, author of [amazon-product text=”Shadow of a Dead Star” type=”text”]B006JQ1HLA[/amazon-product], stopped by the pub today to talk science fiction. Now if you've hung out in the pub before you know that only a few science fiction writers have made their way onto my bookshelves and Michael Shean is one of them.…

  • REVIEW: Shadow of a Dead Star by Michael Shean

    In Michael Shean's futuristic noir, Shadow of a Dead Star, we follow the gut instincts of Thomas Walken, an agent with the Industrial Security Bureau in Seattle, 2078. In a world where technology and commercialism is god, it is up to Walken to keep black-market technology off the Seattle streets. He has no idea that…

  • Michael Shean

    Michael Shean is a web professional and graphic artist living in the Washington, DC area. A lifelong devotee to science fiction, weird fiction and noir tales, Michael enjoys weaving complex stories involving troubled, colorful characters and deconstructing the darker side of the worlds in which they live.

  • It's All Downhill From Here

    I don't know if you know this about me, but I like to be a little bit reckless sometimes. See, I was raised pretty sheltered. I'm the youngest of four children and the only girl. Now granted if you read my last post with random facts about me, you know that I can handle myself…

  • Romance Genre Challenged! Is There a Support Group? by Holly Bush

    Romance Genre Challenged! Is There a Support Group? Let me preface this by saying I don't care what anyone else reads or does in the privacy of their own bedroom or spaceship. But the new sub-genres of romance books are downright confusing and sometimes I have to think really hard  to imagine, envision or even…

  • Getting Hot and Heavy with DC McMillen

    I absolutely adore DC McMillen and when she asked if I was willing to be a part of her Friday Spotlight series I couldn't wait. I really wanted to step up to her challenge of writing a post based off of a prompt but I couldn't bring myself to do it… not yet. Instead I…

  • My First Interview with Isabella Louise Anderson

    When Isabella Louise Anderson asked me if I wanted to be interviewed for her site I couldn't say “YES!” fast enough. It was my first interview ever and I had a blast talking with her. Check out what I had to say here: Isabella Louise Anderson Interview

  • 12 Blogs of Christmas with my Triberr Tribemates

    At the end of 2011 I was invited to join some very talented writers in a Triberr tribe set up to help promote each other's sites and writing. I am truly surrounded by some of the best writers in this tribe and I'm very thankful for their continued support of my entries. In December we…

  • Tales of a Modern Housewife on Erica Lucke Dean's Blog

    In November fellow Triberr tribemate, Erica Lucke Dean, invited me to write a guest blog for her blog. Tales of a Modern Housewife recounts the story of when my husband and I lived in Florida for 6 weeks during March of 2010. I always dreamed I'd be the perfect housewife, but the condo's oven, dishwasher and…