Katherine's Book Backyard

I've been thinking a lot about "sense of place" lately. When I first started writing urban fiction, I was living in Los Angele...

My urban fantasy novel Misbegotten will finally be out in late spring and I'm already working on the sequel. I was playing around wit...

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

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...

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

I have been writing "Misbegotten" stories for almost seven years now, urban fantasies set in the City of the Angels where paranorm...

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...

I used to review books for the review site Bitten by Books , which specializes in paranormal books. I read a lot of great stuff, and found...

I am days from finishing Starcaster , the novel I'm writing in a shared world environment with authors Charlotte English, MeiLin Miranda...

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...

Writing my urban fantasy stories has required putting together word lists of paranormal slang and names of objects that don't currently ...