Author Archives: Kate

Embers – smouldering!

The second book in the Common Law (Jericho and Wade!) series is out. Very exciting! Available at all the standard places, PLUS there’s a blog tour – http://www.riptidepublishing.com/events/tours/embers-blog-tour-kate-sherwood Early reviews have been positive – let me know what you think!

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State of the Writer, January 2017

Time for the annual look-back and look-forward game…   2016 was an interesting year for me, writing wise—I feel like I spent so much time editing that I didn’t get as much writing done as I wanted, but in terms … Continue reading

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Twice Shy… it’s out!

Twice Shy, the third book in the Shelter series, is out. As usual, I’m not really doing any promo for it, so… sales will be what sales will be. I’m planning to do a mini-blitz when the fourth and final … Continue reading

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If you’re not part of the solution…

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. It’s a pretty common phrase, and it’s one I’ve used myself. But I’m wondering if I should stop using it, at least in some circumstances. I’m thinking of … Continue reading

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State of the Writer, 2016

As good a time as any to look back and look forward… 2015 was a bit of a transition year for me – I still want to write m/m, but I had two m/f stories published in 2015 as well, … Continue reading

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A Very Sacrati Christmas… or Late Wintermas…

This is pretty spoiler-y for Sacrati. If you haven’t read that yet (and think you might) you should probably skip this. But if you’ve read it already (or know you won’t), hopefully this will give you a little reassurance that things are … Continue reading

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Ellora’s Cave signal boost

I have only one novella with EC. I didn’t enjoy my experience with them, and sales were crap, so I never sent them anything else. There’s obviously been some kerfuffle over the last couple years, and now there seems to … Continue reading

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Plots? Who needs ’em!

If you’re ever in a room full of writers and want to get them talking, ask them who’s a plotter and who’s a pantser. (For the blessedly innocent, “plotters” outline their books before writing, “pantsers” write by the seat of … Continue reading

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Gearing up for a new release!

I don’t know why I keep playing with self-publishing – I really don’t like any part of the process other than writing the books! But for this series, I wanted to have more flexibility to write short stories, novellas, little … Continue reading

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Themes in Writing

When I was reorganizing my website(s) recently I used it as a chance to look over my books as a sort of body of work, rather than individual stories. (Does “body of work” sound a bit pompous? Oh well!) It … Continue reading

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