Katherine's Book Backyard

  There is a heresy at the bottom of 30 Pieces of Silver ,   Carolyn McCray ’s thriller, a nicely worked out bit of (alternate?) history tha...

 Remember the heyday of the Gothic novel, those books that all had the same cover--with the beautiful long-haired woman running from a castl...

 If there was one thing 2020 was good for--and there wasn't much it WAS good for--the decline in my freelance jobs left me more time for...

 Billed as a "lesbian retelling" of the classic horror tale (one of the original "Gothic romances"), Vampire Mistress  d...

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

New from Azaaa Davis , American author of urban fantasy (my favorite genre) and paranormal romance novels. Jilted is the first of tw...

I've been going through a French stage--reading French crime novels in translation, checking out travel books, enjoying books about Fr...