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May.13.2013
In time for summer vacation reading, The Wide Awake Loons was published April 16 by Silver Knight Publishing. Set in Northern Minnesota, this middle grade novel unites the stories of lake kids and a loon family. It is available at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and at the Silver...
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Apr.12.2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
Interview of Fireflies author P. S. Bartlett
This spring, as I count the days until April 16 when my middle grade book The Wide Awake Loons is published, GMTA Publishing has released Fireflies by P. S. Bartlett. P. S. Barlett’s illuminating novel...
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Mar.11.2013
Red Room has made the challenge for bloggers to write about their favorite children’s adventure story:
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." –Walt Disney
While books had been published specifically for children’s education and entertainment since at...
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Feb.10.2013
Last year, most of our winter in Northern Minnesota was snowless. The ground remained brown in the dead way of November. There were a few snowfalls but they soon melted. Global warming seemed very real. startribune.com
I’d never experienced any winter like that in Minnesota....
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Jan.08.2013
Books are a forest and it’s hard to see the trees, except the tall ones or the old ones. But when you enter the forest, it’s the new growth that emits the sunlight....
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Memory, eidetic memory, and fiction
Memory. What is it? Words or is it...
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Dec.09.2012
First editions are first tries, both for the author and the publisher. Their worth in the used and rare book field is often something to wonder about when you consider that the first edition of Gone with the Wind looks like the umpteenth printing. Fine bindings and good condition can’t...
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Nov.08.2012
Books are a forest and it’s hard to see the trees, except the tall ones or the old ones. But when you enter the forest, it’s the new growth that emits the sunlight....
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Storyteller or dramatic narrator? With a review of Elizabeth Zahzam's God of Wine
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Oct.01.2012
Learning new words or old words? THE HOUSE IN WINDWARD LEAVES is free on Kindle Oct 4 to Oct 8
Drama queen. Decandy. Podsnap. Geophony. Two words are new; two are old. They all seem like words I might have used for my middle grade fantasy, The House in Windward Leaves...
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Sep.07.2012
Books are a forest and it’s hard to see the trees, except the tall ones or the old ones. But when you enter the forest, it’s the new growth that emits the sunlight....
Friday, September 7, 2012
At first I dismissed Representative Todd Akin‘s weak statement about rape and conception as more...
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Aug.06.2012
Interest in Jane Austen has revived these days but, although she was a favorite, I had an enduring fascination with the Bronte's. In my older sister’s bedroom were Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre in the woodcut editions. I was fascinated by these illustrations and,...
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Jul.06.2012
When I arrived at the title of the first short story in my collection Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories, I meant for the sphinx to be like that at Delphi, a sphinx with riddles. The first story is about the hierarchy of computer saavy.
The computer was a riddle in the1980s....
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Jun.04.2012
Released from Press Americana is my short story collection, Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories !! The book is available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com besides being distributed by Ingram’s. Later this summer, the Kindle version will also be...
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May.02.2012
On April 16, I signed a contract with Silver Knight Publishing for my middle grade book The Wide Awake Loons.
That book felt “meant to be” from the first. The conception of books is a subject that mystifies. The Wide Awake Loonsis the only book that I planned in my head before...
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Apr.02.2012
It was about time I read The Jungle. Having grown up in a town where meat was slaughtered and having some knowledge about the history of Chicago, I put this book off. As a vegetarian most days, I thought the historical expose would be a multiple whammy. Then I came...
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Mar.05.2012
Living Wills, my mother, and m. m. Fahren's The Golden Amulet In writing, in thoughts, a person is a living will of their own choices. My mother's death was complicated because of issues about her choices. I remember four years ago when she was 88, she had a stressful...
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About Katherine
I write fiction for adults, children and YA. I also write poetry, one-act plays, and articles. My work has appeared in over 50 journals. In May 2012, my short story collection, Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories was released by Press Americana...
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Katherine’s Favorite Books
The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing, Feast of July by H. E. Bates, Shallows by Tim Winton, Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter, Tender is the Night...