by Katherine Villyard | Jan 12, 2023 | press, short fiction
I’m a Booklife Editor’s Pick! While Villyard has titled her collection of speculative fictions Love Stories, the theme that binds together these stories—which include elements of fantasy, fairy tale, myth, as well as science fiction—is deeply connected...
by Katherine Villyard | Jan 7, 2023 | short fiction
Hey! want to buy a really cheap book? The ebook of Love Stories will be on sale for $0.99 next week (but I’ve set it cheaper on Amazon early.) Tell your friends!
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 9, 2022 | press, short fiction
Holy Cannoli, y’all! With LOVE STORIES, author Katherine Villyard marries her vast intellect and riveting imagination in a short-story collection of speculative fiction that shines with straightforward yet elegant prose. ~Robin L Harvey for IndieReader Yeah, the...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 31, 2022 | short fiction
Love Stories is out and available for order on Amazon and all your other favorite book-buying platforms! (Except the Amazon paperback. Try Barnes and Noble.) If you enjoy it, it would really help me out if you left a...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 30, 2022 | novels, vampires
And what could be more appropriate for Halloween than this video about Bram Stoker and the Fears that Built...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 15, 2022 | novels
1. Scrivener. We all know Scrivener is cool, right? View your text as either an individual scene, a giant block, or a corkboard or outline. Reorder scenes and chapters with ease. Export to various formats, but I really only use Word/RTF. Seriously, moving your...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 8, 2022 | giveaways, novels, writing stats
Okay, honestly? I don’t consider myself an Excel guru. That said, I’ve shared versions of this spreadsheet with other writers and they agree that it is SUPER MOTIVATING. This spreadsheet works by being both the carrot and the stick simultaneously. 😉 It...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 6, 2022 | novels, writing stats
I have a large swath of text with characters, plot, setting, and a beginning, middle, and end. It’s currently 52,489 words, which is (as you know, Bob,) too short. My writer’s group warned me repeatedly that it would be too short, but I’m not that...
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 21, 2022 | giveaways, short fiction
If you would like to read an advance copy of the collection, you can do it at Booksprout, Story Origin, or Book Sirens. If you just want a free copy, there’s a Goodreads Giveaway going on now! That is all....
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 20, 2022 | novels
Creating my characters in the Sims 4? Rolling them up as Dungeons and Dragons characters? RESEARCH. 😉 (Sadly, I’m not actually PLAYING them.)