About
Karissa Chmil spent her childhood running through Indiana cornfields, climbing the French alps, and exploring West African savannas, learning from a young age that there is delight hidden in every corner of the world. Now she writes stories that help kids fall in love with goodness, sweeping them off on quests while showing that virtue is the greatest adventure of all.
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When she’s living a story rather than writing one, you can find her studying foreign languages, ink drawing with fountain pens, and coddiwompling across whatever tree-ish place she can find.
i.e. let's be friends
Fun Facts
Miscellaneous things I like:
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Pocket watches
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Fountain pens
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Pickles
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George MacDonald
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Chai
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The Mysterious Benedict Society
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Hymns
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Petrichor
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Oxford commas
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Memorizing poems
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Siblings
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Cherries
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Constellations & shooting stars
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The sun on leaves
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Candles
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Wind chimes
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Rilla of Ingleside
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Coming home
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Sunsets
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Symphonies
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Traveling by train
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The Wingfeather Saga
Recent email sign-offs:
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May all your muffins be smuggled,
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Yours in sanity and insanity alike,
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Hip-hip-hurrah,
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Gratefully and gleefully,
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​May you have a light in the window,
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For all that is good,
Nonfiction books I could write (but won't):
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How to Accidentally Acquire a Cat
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Miscellanies on Observing Sunsets
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How to Accidentally Acquire a Cat, Vol. 2
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The Fine Art of Coddiwompling
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In Defense of Siblinghood
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All About African Ants
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How to Accidentally Acquire a Cat, Vol. 3
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The Birth of a Myth
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How to Accidentally Acquire a Cat, Vol. 4
Fiction books I could write (and will):
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Pshhhh, that's a secret.