Years ago, I was eating lunch in an office cubicle and reading a Southern Journal article in Southern Living magazine, and suddenly thought, “I could write a better article than that!”

I wrote something from the heart, sent it in…and Southern Living mailed back a check for $1000. I realized I liked writing….a lot.

Laughing. That really did happen—and it inspired a long career that included all sorts of writing: articles for newpapers and magazines, IT white papers, speechwriting, editing, and blogging.

I still do many of those things, when requested. But what I mostly do now is:
1) write novels, specifically historical fiction
2) write artist profiles for a regional gallery
3) coach and edit for other writers, whether published or aspiring hopefuls.

Re those novels: I never thought about Viking culture or people very much, until (totally weird but also totally true) three entities from that era crossed space and time and instructed me—in a way impossible to ignore—that I was to write about them.

So I did. My current four novels delve deeply into the lives of Icelandic people of the Viking era.

Planned future work will hopefully include two more novels in the Viking series, plus four historical novels set in the US and one in medieval England, as well as two small but significant nonfiction books, plus a how-to series that will begin with an unusual cookbook, and a storybook series for young children.

Some personal info:

• I’m interested in nearly everything, with a particular fascination in how concepts such as the Bell curve and sine waves not only describe data—but actually affect human history and social evolutions.

• I enjoy learning more about flora, fauna, terrain, and foods of a region more than doing big tourist destinations.

• I will stop every dang time and move a turtle off the road.

• I have a beloved tiny cat named Amelia Buttercup—and besides her, am fortunate to love my decades-long husband and our three grown sons.

• I watch Escape To The Country for free therapy because I crave visual and auditory quiet in a rural green setting—and that show brings it.

• Being a person who aspires to more than I can possibly accomplish, I once planned for my headstone to read “She Had Good Intentions”…until I recalled that the road to Hell is said to be paved with such, and thought that perhaps might not be the best destination to suggest, lol.

  Thank you for caring enough about my life to read all of this. I hope my work somehow supports your own life in turn.

  Sincerely,
  Katie