Karen Kamenetsky

As I mentioned in part one of this blog post, my first cozy mystery has something I haven't seen in any other book of this genre, links in the text to original music written by me. I wrote five songs…

Today's Sunday special is all about my favorite ways to keep my sandwich (made of provisions deli slices and Parmela Smoky Gouda) fresh, while causing the least amount of harm to the planet.

Plastic wrap was my go to in…

It's Sunday again, time for another roundup of my favorite things. I hope you'll share some of yours in the comments.

3 Things I'm Reading 

Or to be more accurate, re-reading - and not for the last time.

We Are…

My first cozy mystery has something I haven't seen in any other book of this genre, links in the text to original music written by the author.

I described in a previous post how I came to write the songs…

I have seen unambiguous requests, by agents and publishers, for characters who represent groups society has, historically, pretended do not exist. I have read advice from "experts" who suggest any manuscript will be improved by including characters who embody different…

Here are a few more of my favorite things.

3 Brands making me Happy by Responding to Customer's Environmental Concerns 

The choices we make as consumers can and do affect the products we are offered. So, when a brand makes…

A few days ago, the temperature outside flirted with seventy, yesterday it snowed again. It's been a bizarre winter, impacted, I'm sure, by the warming of our planet, and it's not over.

A few weeks ago, I flirted with the…

People often ask if a particularly personal sounding song lyric is taken directly from my life. Sometimes it is. 

In my early days of songwriting, it almost always was. As I tried to grow and improve as a songwriter, I…

It's Sunday - time for my Sunday Special Blog. I can't wait to tell you about some more of my favorite things. And - good things sometimes come in threes, so here we go.

3 Things I’m Eating   

Miyoko’s Creamery…

I have read cozy mysteries that included recipes, but never one that included recordings of songs. As I said in part one of this post, I wanted my cozy mystery to be filled with the sounds and experience of music-making.…