My debut novel, The Deathsniffer’s Assistant, is a classic whodunnit mystery novel. There’s a brilliant detective and her erstwhile assistant. There’s a gruesome murder. There’s…
My mother put together a little book documenting the years of my young life. Every year, she’d give me a little interview. What is your…
Like all first-time authors, I’ve got a stack of unpublishable, half-finished, quarter-finished, and barely started novels laying around. Some were typed out when I was…
The main character of my novel is… Well, that’s a actually a hard statement to finish. There are two main characters in my novel. The…
(Gosh, it’s amazing how quickly you can get behind on this challenge when you have a busy week, isn’t it? Here’s me rolling up my…
Earlier this week, I touched on the central touchstone for the tone of my books: life is routine. I think most everyone knows what I…
When it comes to writing, I think we all have things that we think we’re pretty good at and enjoy doing. Our comfort zone, where…
[tweet http://twitter.com/KateMcBooks/status/571478222996574208] Grr! Is there anything worse? It’s one thing when you realize that everything you just wrote is terrible and you have to delete…
Today I’m just going to talk a bit about my own work. My first book, The Deathsniffer’s Assistant, offers a lot of things that I…
All right, writers; stop me if you’re heard this one. You’re planning a new book. It’s got an interesting setting, something you’ve always been interested…