Katherine's Book Backyard

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

The Nightfalls anthology is in its final editing cycle and it's a terrific group of stories. The anthology will be priced at $3.99 (...

I have been speaking to an agent (squee) about my WIP Misbegotten and he strongly suggested I put together a biography of my main character...

Sometimes you can just be a little too subtle. I was happy with the cover of my book Toxic Reality , but despite great reviews, it just wasn...

My collection of short stories L.A. Nocturne II (More Tales of the Misbegotten) is now up at Amazon. There are nine stories in this collec...

Last year, Paul D. Brazill , creator of the werewolf PI Roman Dalton, asked a number of writers to participate in a "shared world"...

My new collection of stories from the Misbegotten universe will be available next month and Joy Sillsesen has designed a really "hot...

I am surrounded by talented people who create wonderful book covers and one of my favorites, Joy Sillesen, is offering New Year's discou...

Here's the cover. Designed by Joy Sillesen of StonyHill Productions , published by Dark Valentine Press. The core image was a photo of a...