Katherine's Book Backyard

The Midnight Queen , the conclusion of the three-partstory cycle that began with Bride of the Midnight King , is in final edits. I wrote m...

A Dream of Sun and Roses is still free on Amazon, so if you're looking for a short, futuristic fairy tale (based on Sleeping Beauty) ...

Lately I've been sampling boxed sets and as often is the case, once you go looking, you discover they're all over the place. This ...

The heroine of my upcoming urban fantasy novel ( Misbegotten )  is a paranormal crime reporter named Kira Simkins.  In the course of the s...

I've been writing a series of novelette-sized modernized fairy tales, and grabbing covers from various sources. The fabulous Ravven was ...

My collection of dark short stories based on "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is back, just in time for the holiday season. I'...

Every year or so when I have a little discretionary income, I like to download images for use on my covers and in my blog and for personal p...

This is the summer I finally get all the bits and pieces of writing up and out there. Joy Sillesen of Indie Author Services has created a g...

One of the reasons I moved from L.A. is that I wanted more time to write. Now that I've been herein Bellingham six months, I've be...

In between the crime fiction I write, I dabble in fantasy and speculative fiction. A couple of months ago I got the iddea too set fairy tale...

I showed the cover I created for " Death of a Fairy" to my friend Joy Sillesen of Indie Author Services and instead of saying, ...

In my spare time I write for fun and profit. I use my own name for my crime fiction and horror, but I use my pseudonym, Kat Parrish for th...

I love the covers that Joy Sillesen of Indie Author Services does for me. I've also bought a number of IAS pre-made covers over the year...

Cover by Indie Author Services My friend Christine Pope--aka the hardest working writer in romance fiction--has a new book coming out th...

This is the year I finally transcribe all the short stories and half-based novellas and bits of novel-writing and refine them into somethi...

some people get books for Christmas, I get book covers. Thanks to Joy Sillesen of Indie Author Services , I now have covers for my upcomi...

I'll be publishing MISBEGOTTEN early in the new year and I'm giving away my collection of short stories, L.A. NOCTURNE II to get i...

I write short stories. In fact, I write SHORT short stories. Up until last month, the longest story I'd ever written was my entry in P...

There's a world I've been playing with for some time, a story about a mother and daughter I call Soul Searchers . The tagline is, ...

There are a lot of people who dream of selling a script for big money and seeing their work turned into a movie starring Ryan Gosling, An...