Hi, I’m Katie. I am a writer of literary fiction, often with a magical realism edge. Aside from this I have very few vices other than alcohol, crisps and lying about how many vices I have.
Writing is not my day job – it’s my love affair on the side. I write short stories for fun and experimentation, but my main passion is novels. I currently have two novels published and another shortly to be released.
Memories of a Lost Thesaurus was my debut novel, about the flooding of a set of new build apartments and its effect on the inhabitants, although of course it’s not about the flood at all. It’s about the way the murky rules of the playground manage to insinuate themselves into the lives of ‘apparently’ highly functioning adults.
Puck’s Legacy is my second novel, about a group of actors who drop out of society and take some rather drastic steps to escape the humdrum awfulness of reality. Their performances are truly captivating. But there are many more entrances than there are exits. And what if not everybody was pretending?
Unforgotten Monsters is my latest novel, and it explores, among other things, the things we chose to hold onto and the murkiness of memory. Clara, lost in more ways than one, takes shelter in a mysterious village. But, as she begins to explore, her surroundings seem to shift and change. And she can’t remember why she’s there. Was the storm outside, or in her head? And where or what is the village? If Clara can answer that, there is a chance she may not be so keen to leave. And can she?
I have two other novels on the go:
‘Things as They Are’, is about unrequited love, and the pain of growing up – against the ‘usual’ backdrop of possibly possessed paintings and the obsessive collecting of old shop receipts. It’s drafted and is ‘resting’ in a drawer while I draft something new, after which I will dig it out to be (ruthlessly) edited.
‘To Be Frank’ is in the planning stages, and is about prejudice, friendship and the tendency for humans to continuously repeat their own mistakes. I’m about to draft it, and I’m raring to go…