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Sarah's husband has accepted a job on the next shuttle to Mars. Will she go with him, or lose him forever?

2022

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In Fitness And In Health

Teaching Kids Healthy Eating and Fitness in 140 Characters or Less

How our family is finding our way through social media’s maze of body shaming and disordered eating

14 min readApr 4, 2024

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Six cups full of smoothies sit in a semi-circle in front of a hollowed out watermelon, carved in the shape of a pig, full of fruit.

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The Writing Cooperative

How to Build Your Mailing List as a Novelist

Harness the brilliance of permission-based marketing to sell more of your books

6 min readJan 29, 2021

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A person sits in front of a laptop with a smartphone in their hand.

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Human Parts

What If the Unrealistic Body Image I’m Chasing Is Mine?

Those women in the magazines did a job on my head — after all, I was one of them

8 min readJun 11, 2019

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What If the Unrealistic Body Image I’m Chasing Is Mine?

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ILLUMINATION

Teatime

The world’s gone mad, but at least there’s tea

4 min readOct 7, 2020

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A mug of tea with a tag that says “Kindness is the gift of life”

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Karen Hough

Kill Your Darlings

Little edits make a big difference

3 min read6 days ago

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A pencil with a sharpener on the end.

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ILLUMINATION

I Didn’t Want to Write a Book About Space Travel

I didn’t read SciFi, so why was I writing it?

4 min readFeb 11, 2024

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A bright star is visible through an airplane window, with the text, “It means not coming back. It means forever.”

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In Fitness And In Health

Perimenopause and the Morning Walk

What do you mean, what I’ve always done doesn’t work anymore?

11 min readJan 18, 2024

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A woman walks towards a dog, down a snowy path between trees.

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In Fitness And In Health

A Hot Metabolism on a Cold Day

Are there any real benefits to cold-weather exercise?

8 min readFeb 3, 2021

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A Hot Metabolism on a Cold Day

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In Fitness And In Health

Why Crosstraining Matters

A cheeky take on why changing it up is good for you

5 min readJan 19, 2021

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A person in a cropped tank top and shorts consults their smartwatch.

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The Writing Cooperative

A Better Way to Take Rejection

Treat your rejection letters as the validation they are

4 min readJan 5, 2021

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The word “no” is written in large letters.

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Karen Hough

Karen Hough

Book Author

Writer, editor & blogger ~ Fitness nerd with a BSc. (Hon.) Human Kinetics ~ Owner of aspirational sweatpants ~ https://KarenHoughWrites.com

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