Hi, I’m Kate.
In my fiction, I write fun filled, fast pace contemporary fantasy featuring witches, shifters, fae, and demons, empowered women, intense friendships, swoony romances, nefarious villains, cool treasure, myths, folklore, and a lot more.
In nonfiction, I write personal development for writers and other creatives.
My fiction is published under Sylvan Star Press.
My nonfiction is published under Inkwell & Elm.
The Personal Info
As well as writing, I’m also typically found wrangling two small children (don’t worry, they’re mine), working out, taking epic long walks, cleaning something, listening to something, watching something, reading something, and sleeping. There’s never enough sleeping.
I’ve worked dozens of different non-writing jobs from dollar shop retail, regenerating bushland, making pizza, scooping ice-cream, washing dishes, selling outdoor furniture, selling shoes, mystery shopping, making sandwiches, tutoring high school kids in English, and many years working in music retail. Now that I’m a professional writer, I can definitely say this is the best job. Ever. But all of those other jobs all, in their way, helped pave the way.
I love weight lifting, running, and long distance walking. I love sunny spring days, NaNoWriMo, clean linen, tarot, and the smell of sweet basil.
I live in Perth, Australia (moved from Brisbane at the end of 2017) with my husband, two kids (currently 9 and 4), and a beagle named Pepper.
I’m addicted to peppermints.
I’m obsessed with Arthurian legend and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I have worshipped Madonna since I was about 9 years old.
I have a Bachelor of Arts with majors in English and History from the Australian National University in Canberra, and a Masters in Humanities (Media and Cultural Studies) and a Graduate Certificate in the same from the University of Queensland, Brisbane. I started a PhD through the University of Western Australia, but I decided writing on my own terms outside of the stringent circles of academia would be more fun. It is, but it’s also no less fun. When I discovered how hard it was, I scuttled back to studying for a while and earned a Grad Cert in Communications from Griffith University. When my first kid was born, I realized that writing fiction is where my heart lives, so that’s what I do.