by Katherine Villyard | Sep 2, 2024 | novels
I think it’s updated at all retailers where I have preorders, but it’s not instantaneous. So: I’m madly in love with this cover! It’s perfection! (Preorders are up some places. More coming...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 26, 2024 | history, novels, research, vampires
Because it came up recently-ish… 19th century Whitechapel was full of Eastern European Jews. There are modern walking tours of the area to see the Jewish sights. My character engages with these Eastern European immigrants. The Jewish population in England...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 17, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
This story originally appeared in in Alien Abduction: Short Fiction on the Themes of Alien and Abduction, September 28, 2015, and was reprinted in Love Stories. The spires of Miros were tall and slender, much like Ted’s captors. They walked in the streets below...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 12, 2024 | vampires, writing
The reading went great! I got to read with my sister, and… generally if the Broads are in the house, GO SEE THEM. I read from Immortal Gifts, and people chuckled in all the right places, so there you are.
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 30, 2024 | novels, press, vampires
Do you want to preorder a COOL BOOK? Apple Books readers, click here! Kobo readers, click here! (It’ll be on other retailers as well. Stand by for more links, or join my mailing list!) P.S. It’s also on...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 16, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
This story was originally published in Electric Velocipede, issue #17/18, Spring 2009, reprinted in Escape Pod, March 10, 2011, and reprinted in Love Stories. JUNE 23, 1994 Ann stuffed her blood-spattered clothes into the next door apartment complex’s dumpster. He...
by Katherine Villyard | Jun 15, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
This story originally appeared in ChiZine, October 2011, and was reprinted in Broad Spectrum: The 2012 Broad Universe Fiction Sampler (October 30, 2012, and in Love Stories. INFERNO Last time this happened, I was Orpheus. Ethan was lost, pale, gone in a haze of...
by Katherine Villyard | May 28, 2024 | geekiness, writing
For my eBooks (I have one for sale and a slew of mailing list extras), I use Draft2Digital’s converter… but might end up using Sigil. I used to do webdev, a million years ago, and am comfortable in HTML and CSS. But I have yet to play with that. I mean, D2D produces...
by Katherine Villyard | May 21, 2024 | writing
Oh hey! It’s a magical creature post where I’m not going to ask you to think about religion! I mean, you can if you want to, as the medieval European werewolf typically put on a wolf-skin belt, or applied a special salve to their body, or went through a Satanic rite,...
by Katherine Villyard | May 15, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
This story was originally published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination and reprinted in Love Stories. (Also this graphic is adapted from the original publisher’s art.) Tucking his computer science textbook and his Book of Shadows into his backpack,...