Katherine's Book Backyard

In a parallel life I would have been an epidemiologist. Ever since I read Guns, Germs, and Stee l, I’ve been fascinated by the interaction...

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In a world where people are suddenly losing their shadows, the lives of a group of unrelated people are bound up in a hope for building a ...

I have never been to Colorado except in movies and books. I read Isabella Bird's wonderful A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains wh...

Stephen King is known to be generous in his blurbs, but even so, I'll take his recommendation of a writer any day. This is the newest ...

A few years ago I participated in Brian Lindemuth's "Short Story a Day" challenge for a year. I discovered a lot of new writ...

I couldn't have said it better myself. But then, I can rarely say anything better than Stephen King.

I love short story collections and continue to buy them even as my friends and colleagues bemoan the way short story markets have dried up...

The first writer I sought out because I loved her books and wanted to read everything she wrote was Beverly Cleary, who just turned 100 in...

I've only visited New Orleans once and it was before Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. But it really is one of those places that is...

From now until the end of the month, enter the March Mayhem contest sponsored by Joanne Renaud, Kat Laurange, Donna Thorland, Lynne Con...

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge Stephen King fan. I think The Stand is a monumental book. I first read it while home sick from s...

I'm pretty sure this was the first book I read by Stephen King. I never read Carrie , but I picked up Salem's Lot at the Westove...

Horror writer G. Wells Taylor (his new book, The Night Once More is a genre-bending, phantasmagorical noir-horror-thriller), hit an absol...

Remember when vampire books were horror stories? Me too. (I still get chills thinking about Stephen King's ' Salem's Lot .) Vamp...

I have mentioned my enthusiasm for the James Patterson masterclass video learning experience and now it seems Writer's Digest books has ...

One of the people reviewing my book Bride of the Midnight Kin g compared my prose to Tanith Lee's. I could not have asked for higher p...

Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays and maybe more, if scholars are right about his authorships of plays like Edward II I and Thomas More...

There are people (usually people who haven't read much of his work) who get snarky about Stephen King. They like to pigeon-hole him in...