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News about Katie and her books

The Text Prize

Regular readers may recall that some time ago I began a new series for young adult readers, in which the first three installments were titled Scales, Claws and Spikes. You may also recall that though my agents and publisher thought the first installment was pretty good (despite not being able to agree on what age… {read more}

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Editing Again

Well, I finished the first stage of editing on book five, The Shadowed Throne. Good to have that one out of the way! Editing is exciting the first time, but do it enough times and it just turns into work – like most things in life, I would imagine. But finishing it always puts me… {read more}

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Exciting News!

You ever get that feeling like you’re not really in control of your existence? Like you’re stuck being you and living your boring life whether you like it or not? Ever wanted to be someone else? Well, sadly this isn’t the universe of Being John Malkovitch (love that movie, and I found the soundtrack at… {read more}

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…And They Lived Unhappily Ever After

Today, at about 2pm in my favourite cafe, I finally completed book eight, The Silent Guard! Book two of the third trilogy, The Southern Star. Now I suppose it’s on to book nine, which doesn’t have a title yet. I think I’ll finish the short story I’m on first, though. And I just got the… {read more}

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End of an Era

I knew about this some weeks ago, but now it’s been publicly announced I think it’s time I said something about it myself. Stephanie Smith, the head of Voyager and the lady who was instrumental in getting The Fallen Moon published in Australia, and following that The Risen Sun as well, has resigned. She’s been… {read more}

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American Release Date for The Shadow’s Heir

Well, it’s been a while since we’ve seen one of these: an actual piece of actual news! To do with the actual books! I’ve now signed the contract for the American edition of the second trilogy, but for unknown reasons the release dates weren’t included. I made an enquiry, and can now inform you that… {read more}

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Contest Update

Yo everyone. I know I said I would be posting up the other entries for the contest, but unfortunately someone was foolish enough to buy me a copy of Skyrim for Christmas, so… yeah. Time kind of slips away, you know? Anyway, there’s still one other thing to be done before the other entries go… {read more}

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Hello world!

Katie’s new and awesome website is coming very, very soon!

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