by Katie | Nov 20, 2017 | My Books, Writing and Publishing
:: Marvelous photos of a book event, where I was joined by fellow Tall Poppy Writers Kristy Woodson Harvey and Susan Bishop Crispell. Last Thursday, November 16, I had a book event at Flyleaf Books here in Chapel Hill with fellow Tall Poppy Writers Kristy Woodson...
by Katie | Oct 16, 2017 | Disability, Freelance Academic, My Books, Social Justice
:: Three years ago, I wrote a column for a magazine about hiding my psychiatric disability because I feared for my job in higher education. Three years later, disability, in particular, mental health, became a regular beat of mine, and I’ve written essays and...
by Katie | Oct 4, 2017 | My Books, Writing and Publishing
:: “A poignant and layered narrative about the universal desire for something so elusive—a safe place to fall.” There’s been some news on the writing front for me: I had a new book come out in September, and I have another new one coming out in two...
by Katie | Dec 20, 2016 | Essay, My Books, Writing and Publishing
:: When my publisher told me they wanted me to write a love story set around the winter holidays, and “Oh, it needs a happy ending”—I felt like I was standing barefoot and under-supplied at the bottom of a very tall, very rocky mountain that I had to climb if I ever...
by Katie | Dec 9, 2016 | Law, My Books
:: “The Complete Legal Writer promises much and delivers more,” says the best book review, ever. I write a lot of things: novels, essays and journalism pieces, and, as you might not know, nerdy books on nerdy things like legal reasoning, writing,...
by Katie | Jun 30, 2016 | My Books, Writing and Publishing
:: I’m still me. I’m just me with a new novel. At the beginning of this month, my second novel, CHASING CHAOS, came out. (It’s part of the Hollywood Lights Series.) That was pretty awesome but also weird (as I wrote about here). As I mentioned in that earlier...