Kate Spofford, author

Category: Writing

  • nanowrimo 2016 progress update

    nanowrimo 2016 progress update

    I neglected to post here about my Nanowrimo novel for this year… Lately I’ve found the Mandela Effect rather fascinating, and I wanted to write something that would incorporate it somehow.  Yet without a firm idea, I instead decide to create a creep-tastic cover that might inspire me.  I scrolled through the sample covers on…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 26: Dawn of the Dead (2004)

    After mentioning this in my recommendations a few days ago, I realized it was high time to give this one a re-watch. This is still one of my favorite “the beginning of the apocalypse” scenes ever.  And then when they finally get to the mall and the Muzak version of “Don’t Worry Be Happy” is…

  • Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale!

    Two books in the Wolf Point series are part of this month-long sale over at Smashwords!  Hitchhikers is always free, and Dreamwalkers & Scavengers will both be free as well.  Use the code SFREE at checkout.  Super easy!

  • update

    It’s been a long time since my last post… Amazingly, I’ve been writing more than ever.  The caveat?  It’s been 98% fanfiction.  *sigh* During Nanowrimo I attempted to get a start on a 4th book in the Wolf Point series – WIP Title: Fighters, from Misty’s POV – but the call to fanfic was too…

  • Scavengers is out! And Camp Nanowrimo win!

    Finally, it’s done! I managed to publish the Kindle edition on the actual date I had planned for the release (April 30), and it should be available over at Smashwords (and then at Barnes & Noble, iBooks, etc.) shortly! If anyone is interested in a free digital copy of Scavengers to review, please contact me via email…

  • a week of writing and revising

    As April winds to an end, I find myself in the midst of two things: finishing up my story for Camp Nanowrimo, and preparing Scavengers for release later this week! Currently I’m at around 18,500 words in “The Madman,” which will be a second Wolf Point prequel novella.  I only need to write about 500…

  • hi-ho it’s off to camp i go

    This year Camp Nanowrimo is already making me do great things.  I finished the rough draft of Scavengers (YAY! You can even see that it’s moved from my Works in Progress to Novels!) because I needed it to be finished before I started camp. I had a whole 2 days to spare, and I decided to use them…

  • book clubs and week-long freebies!

    I’m so bad at promoting my own books.  This week (March 23-March 27) The Art Kids is free on Amazon Kindle.  Go download! Tonight I’ll be appearing at my first book club discussion of one of my books!  My coworker Sue read Bethany Caleb after the author panel I did at the library back in December.  She loved…

  • writing weather?

    You’d think, after having four giant snowstorms in as many weeks and getting a number of days off from work for that very reason, with nothing to do other than sit in my apartment alone, that I would have done MUCH more writing than I have. Nope. Yesterday cabin fever set in and I had…

  • more writing soundtracks

    I’ve added a few new playlists over at 8tracks: it was only tuesday – This is my writing playlist for Bethany Caleb. vampire mix – My reading playlist for Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, which I also used as a writing playlist for Seven Minutes to Midnight and Blood Countess i will bathe in your blood…