Katherine's Book Backyard

Derek Murphy is a book designer with a PhD in literature. I ran across this excellent blogpost he did (* Cover Design Secrets publishers u...

I know, it seems like I'm rushing the season, but last year I didn't get the book out until it was very nearly Christmas and it wa...

This story appears in my new collection The Poisoned Tea t, which is still not up at Amazon, although it is available from Smashwords . It...

The heat is on over at NoHo Noir. We haven't heard from Shannon Garrick and her son Liam since he testified against the gang shot-call...

Huzzah--thanks to editors Chris Rhatigan and Nigel Bird!! These stories have a horror and a fantastical edge. Buy it here for kindle for jus...

Illustration by Mark Satchwill Esme Morales and her partner Edgar are back in this tale of zombies, skanky badge bunnies and more. Read ...

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...

As you may know, Christopher Grant of A Twist of Noir has a new-ish site devoted completely to zombie stories. There are no zombies in the p...

You may have read my story "The Smallest of the Summoner's Bells," which originally ran on the Dark Valentine website. There ...

Yes, the evil clown is back!  Beginning Sunday, November 20, Mark Satchwill and I will be bringing you Volume II of NoHo Noir. And we'll...

Today's story at NoHo Noir features a grieving Lem, who is spending Passover alone with his dead wife's cat. Although he and Clancy...

Artist Mark Satchwill and I had to hit the ground running when we first started doing NoHo Noir . We were hired on a Monday and the first st...

Here it is. Let me know what you think.

Yes--it's another episode of NoHo Noir. This week features one of my favorite characters, Erika Garrett, the high-maintenance ex-wife o...

Written under my pseudonym "Kat Parrish," the story "Broken Dreams" originally appeared in Astonishing Adventures Magazi...

Yes, it's Sunday self-promotion day as another episode of NoHo Noir appears on patch.com. This episode ties together characters from th...

This past week marked the debut of twice a week NoHo Noir stories. From now on Mark Satchwill and I will be bringing you a double-tap of no...

The plot thickens...Remember the street kid Helen Parrish kidnapped awhile ago? Her mother has come to town looking for her. And guess who ...

Celebrate Valentine's Day with the characters of NoHo Noir. This is a pivotal episode--expect revelations about Ethan (the homophobic...

New fiction up at Dark Valentine Magazine's site. The Sin Eater .