Kate Spofford, author

Category: Writing

  • all the free books!

    There’s a huge sale over at Smashwords, which means all my books there are free!  These include: Hitchhikers (Wolf Point #1) – always free! Dreamwalkers (Wolf Point #2) – just use EY100 at checkout Scavengers (Wolf Point #3) – just use EY100 at checkout The Beast (Wolf Point Origins #1) – always free! The Madman (Wolf Point…

  • how the heck did they go to the bathroom??? and other questions asked while writing historical fiction

    To date I have about 8 different novels that can be classified as historical fiction, in varying states of completion. For Nanowrimo, I am writing a novel that takes place shortly after the Reign of Terror in France.  And this isn’t the first time that I’ve had to research historical bathroom habits. The drawback to…

  • editing time!

    I was so ambitious when I planned for the third Wolf Point prequel to be released May 1.  Quite honestly, I don’t know what I was thinking, because I had planned to write the rough draft during April’s Camp Nanowrimo.  Like when I wrote The Madman, the rough draft was not in fact completed by…

  • i’ve hit the Big Time.

    That’s right, folks.  I’m Big Enough (or little enough?) to get plagiarized. Someone, and I won’t name names at this moment (because I have already lodged a copyright infringement complaint with Amazon and I’m hoping this plagiarized book will be taken down soon), has taken the entire text of The Madman and thrown it up…

  • Read a ebook week: March 5-11

    In honor of “Read an eBook Week,” Smashwords is having a huge site-wide sale, which means all the Wolf Point series books will be free! So, you can get Wolf Point books 1-3:           And you can also get both of the prequel novellas (that’s right, The Madman is now available!):…

  • Presidents’ Day Sale

    This week all my books shall be free!!  February 20-24!  EVERY.  SINGLE.  ONE. Over on Amazon, you’ll find Bethany Caleb, The Art Kids, and Hitchhikers all free for Kindle! If you visit Smashwords, you can find Dreamwalkers & Scavengers (Wolf Point #2 & #3) for free with the coupon codes.  Hitchhikers and The Beast (Wolf Point…

  • new year, new look

    One of my goals this year is to get back on track with writing my original fiction.  First up was a new cover for The Art Kids:                     Isn’t it pretty??  Of course this is for the Kindle edition only, because creating a cover for the paperback…

  • lost again

    Damn, I wish my computer files would stop getting lost! A couple of months ago, I finally took all my old floppy disks, bought an external floppy drive since no computer I have access to has a floppy drive anymore, and converted the files and saved them to my external hard drive.  Finally!  I thought.…

  • 11th consecutive nanowrimo win!

    11th consecutive nanowrimo win!

    I achieved the coveted 50K word count on Monday night, with only 48 words to spare… yikes.  My novel is not complete but I feel like it needs quite a bit more editing to get it to a coherent enough place to figure out an ending, therefore The Mist that Falls at Night is now…

  • writing music

    Like most writers, I enjoy listening to music while I write.  But you gotta have music that fits your writing mood!  I often also prefer music without lyrics – pop music makes me want to sing and dance so it really doesn’t help me when I write.  This Nanowrimo I already have a few go-to artists…