Welcome to my website

Thank you for taking time out of your day to visit my website. Feel free to look around and email me if you have any questions.

Right now I am working on fiction and hope to have the manuscript ready to shop around early this fall. 

A few updates

Where Children Run is currently out of print but over the next few months I'll be working at making it available again - so watch the site for future news on its availability.

When Memories Remain is available again! You can order from Amazon.com or contact me directly. I have books here at home, so if you'd like one just follow the Buy It links on the site.

I recently started a blog - a way to communicate with readers that is easier than updating this website. So if you are at all curious what I'm up to, check out: www.kemilson.blogspot.com.

I want to hear from you

If you've read my books and would like to comment on them, feel free to email me either through the site or directly: karen@karenemilson.com   Let me know if you'd like the comments posted on the website.

On my most recent book

Here's what a radio host had to say:

"Karen will unravel the complex issues that surround the economic, politcal and social impact of the BSE crisis. Her knowledge and warmth make her an excellent radio guest. The book is a must read."
- Bryan Allen, Host-Producer, "The Talk Show" CKNX AM920 Radio, Wingham, Ontario

Read an interview on my non-fiction book, Just a Matter of Time by clicking here.

Shortly after the news broke that a cow on an Alberta ranch tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in May 2003, Karen Emilson wrote a biographical piece that appeared in the Farmers Independent Weekly. In it she captured the feelings of many beef producers .. what they were thinking, feeling and the fears they had about an uncertain future.

“The reaction to that article was good but it left me feeling a bit self-conscious,” Emilson said. “Some people reacted with pity and I didn’t like that.”

Karen and her husband Mark are cow calf producers who farm outside of Vogar along Lake Manitoba. Karen has built a career as a rural writer and has self-published two successful novels based on the Pischke twins, David and Dennis. Where Children Run and Where Memories Remain were highly successful and are still in demand today. [more...]