by Katherine Villyard | Oct 5, 2024 | short fiction
I now have signed paperbacks in my store! Fair warning: I will ship internationally, but it’s super expensive. I’m so sorry! Contact me for rates. I also didn’t order a lot of author copies, so if it’s more popular than I expected I might need...
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 17, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
This story was originally published in Love Stories. When I got home, there was a statement from my retirement account in the mailbox and an eviction notice taped to my front door. I tore open the account statement. My IRA was worth nothing. I guess I shouldn’t...
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...