Publication Day!! What If?

 What if there were no more happy endings?

My story was inspired by Peter Pan and features a fairy, some lost boys, and a wicked Queen holding sway over a kingdom. 

Buy your copy here.

Writing the story gave me an idea for a new trilogy of tales that re-imagines characters from classic children's lit in a far more sinister wy. No, I'm not going all agro on Winnie the Pooh, but there are a couple of characters that have always bothered me...I felt like there was a story behind them that we never knew. And Tinkerbelle is one. I've commissioned artist/designer Grady Earls to make the covers and I can't wait to share them with you. 

I have two other trilogies planned with his covers and looking at my schedule for the next couple of years, I am going to be busy!!!

MOnday is for giveaways!

 

Discover new authors and get a chance to win. Enter here.

But then there's LitRing's epic journeys giveaway that's all about fantasy and sci fi. Enter and you could be the lucky winner of a Kindle Fire and an Amazon gift card to get you started loadinng it up. Enter here. 

re-imagined Fairy Tales

 

You probably have a favorite fairy tale and if you do, you probably enjoy reading new versions of them. I know I do. This anthology is full of fairy tales with a twist. Some of them are told from the villain's point of view, some of them turn out a little unexpected. My story (written as Katia Kozar) is a retelling of an old tale called "The Fish and the Ring." I set it in the present, and the story features a young working class woman, the wealthy young man who loves her, and his father's attempt to break them up. The title is, "Friday the Special is Fish."

You can preorder Wicked Ever After for 99 cents. Only on Kindle. 

Cozy Mysteries for you!

 

I belong to a bunch of different anthologies and boxed sets and this one is offering a Kickstarter Campaign to go along with it. You can check it out here. 

In addition to the anthology, there are all sorts of goodies--rewards for the different levels. More books are better than no books, right? 

And we've blasted past our initial goals and are working on our stretch goals for this last day of the campaign. Check out some of what you'll get.

Don't wait!

Billionaire Fling is here.

 It's here!  My contribution is a modern retelling of Beauty & the Beast.

★✩★ RELEASE TOUR ★✩★ The Billionaire Fling A Contemporary Romance Collection for Charity Romance Café Collection Book 19 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61161998/ Hosted by DS Book Promotions   AMAZON US  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B1Z7QX2M/ UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0B1Z7QX2M/ CA https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0B1Z7QX2M/ AU https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0B1Z7QX2M/ https://books2read.com/u/3n5Nro Available on Kindle Unlimited   Blurb: Champagne, sports cars, private jets: these powerful billionaires can buy everything but love. With the world at their command, how will they cope with the one person who wants their heart, not their money? Strap on your red sole stilettos, pop open the champagne, and dive into our billionaires' glittering happily ever afters. Over twenty titillating stories from USA Today best-selling and award-winning romance authors in a spicy billionaire collection curated by The New Romance Cafe, with ALL proceeds going to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.   Participating Authors: Celia J. Lisbeth DL Gallie Emmy Dee Gabbi Black Heather Scarlett JA Lafrance Jackie Paxson Janie Grey Kat Parrish Kathleen Ryder Keighley Bradford Kenna Shaw Reed Kristine Charles Molly Lachaussee Nikita Bloom Stacy-Deanne Susan Horsnell TL Hamilton Toni Denise Whimsy Nimsy   About The New Romance Cafe The New Romance Café is the place to get your daily dose of romance books. Hang out with like-minded readers and authors at different stages of their writing journey, in a diverse and inclusive group. Find out about new releases, take part in fun discussions, and recommend your favourite reads in the safe space of the Café.   Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thenewromancecafe Website: https://thenewromancecafe.com/ Romance Cafe Publishing: https://romancecafepublishing.com/   #thebillionairesfling #anthology #billionaireromance #billionaire #TheNewRomanceCafeCollection #bookish #trinitywood #dlgallie #dsbookpromotions @DL Gallie @Trinity Wood @Keighley Bradford @DS Book Promotions

Afterwitch Chronicles by Kat Parrish now on Channillo

 I have taken the plunge into serial fiction. I'm still thinking about putting something up on Kindle vella (I have two covers for stories I haven't yet written) but I think Channillo has a lot going for it. The story I've serialized is the first of my Afterwitch Chronicles, a post-apocalyptic story that was inspired by the covers I bought. Those covers turned out to be kind of a saga. I purchased them from Book Cover Design and Amazon refused to allow them, saying I'd violated copyright.

I contacted the designer, who sent me the original images and showed me what she'd done and her receipt from a well-respected stock site which clearly stated, the images were available for book covers. When that didn't satisfy Amazon, I tracked down the photographer who took the original images and he gave me permission to use the images. That still didn't satisfy  Amazon, so a friend made a trio of other covers for me. But this cover and its two mates always said post-apocalyptic witchiness to me and I love them, so I am using them with my story. You can find it here. 

Holiday romance is my happy place...

 I you've been with me for awhile, you know that I love, love, love mysteries and have been devoted to them since I was a child. Yes, Nancy Drew, but also Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and more. I started out writing noir-ish stories and was lucky enough to fall into a wonderfully supportive community that encouraged and nurtured me. But a lot of my stories were dark. Sooooo dark.  

And then one day I wrote a Christmas romance. A clean, sweet, cozy, feel-good romance full of quirky characters and food and good things happening to people. And I loved it. I wrote a few more. Then I wrote a Thanksgiving story. Then I wrote a couple of Valentine's Day stories. (If you want to hear my

real-life Valentine's Day story, I recount it in What Was I Thinking? a collection of bad boyfriend stories that was traditionally published.)

I also have a Mother's Day story, a couple of Halloween stories, and a graduation day story. Most of them are set in my fictional city of Silver Birch, Washington, which is a lot like Bellingham, WA, a city I lived in for four years. 

Right now I'm writing a St. Patrick's Day story, and in the next few months I'm writing another "harvest time" story, an Election Day story, a Fourth of July story, and an August story. I plan to collect them all in a book called Seasons of Silver Birch.

I'm hoping to hit up one of my friends to do the cover for it because I got a little carried away buying covers this year and I am going to try not to buy ANYTHING next year that's not vital. Even buy-ins to boxed sets. I got carried away with those as well.

I wrote 350K words last year, all of it for boxed sets. So that will give you an idea. But a lot of those stories were gentle, sweet, holiday romance. And I enjoyed myself immensely. I hope my readers did too.