Katherine's Book Backyard

The special anniversary double issue of Astonishing Adventures Magazine is now available at Mediafire and issuu . The print version will b...

When I was a little girl, my grandmother used to watch Queen for a Day , that reality show forerunner where four women vied to become "...

I'm not a cranky person. The holidays don't stress me out because I like cooking and Christmas shopping. (I do it all online, so I...

I love a good short story, as I've mentioned before. The New York Magazine political fictions (it's their plural on the fiction) ca...

One of my ongoing gigs is reviewing books for sites like California Literary Review , where I'm the go-to-gal for genre. We were just a...

My weekly post at biermagazine is up. I'd love to hear from anyone who has a recipe for cooking with beer, or if you have recommendati...

Synchronicity--Within two hours of "Pulp Christmas" being posted on A Twist of Noir, I got an email from James Kerr, who runs a ra...