Katherine's Book Backyard

My short collection of short stories, Suicide Blonde , is free today. I'm particularly fond of the title story which took me forever t...

Illustration by Mark Satchwill Just when I'm getting crankypants about CNN pandering to the lowest common denominator, they blindsid...

Illustration by Mark Satchwill The new NoHo Noir story is up and I only hope I've done justice to Mark Satchwill's illustration...

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...

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

It's Mark Satchwill who has written and illustrated the first NoHo comic strip story "Knock Knock," "Knock, Knock" w...

So the debate about whether women can write crime fiction has flared up again with interesting posts from Sandra Seamans , Heath Lowrance ...

Illustration by Mark Satchwill This week's story is about our character Nicole, who is about to get downsized from her job as a posta...

Illustration by Mark Satchwill My friend Alex and I have a couple of projects we're pitching around town and one of them involves an ...

The run-up to Christmas this year was fairly exhausting with the three-week catering gig and the deadlines, and so now that it's actuall...

Yes, the long wait is over. NoHo Noir is now live with the first of the new stories, "Bum's Rush." Check it out and note Mark ...

The first of a new cycle of stories will go up tomorrow on the new NoHo Noir site. Mark and I are tremendously excited about continuing the...

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...

I always thought Andy Rooney looked sort of alike a muppet. It was the eyebrows, I think. And I always kind of got a kick out of his cranky-...

Volume I of NoHo Noir comes to an end. Illustration by Mark Satchwill A year ago, late on a Sunday night, I answered a Craig's List...

Photo by Thomas Hawk "NoHo Noir," the illustrated serial novel that Mark Satchwill and I created, will be a year old next week....

There's a seasonal rhythm to the freelance work I do. It gets busy in May and in September and in January because I'm prepping my cl...

It's not easy being an Armenian gangster's daughter. If you've been following the series so far, you will remember that Nick is...

Mark Satchwill, my partner in crime at NoHo Noir, has been sick for a few weeks so various artists have been filling in for him. Joanne Ren...

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...