Author Biography

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Born in Indiana, USA, writer Katharine Eliska Kimbriel also spent time in Michigan, Ohio, and California before settling in Texas. She has a B.F.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University, and various other talents tucked in her quiver.

Her obligatory itinerant occupations have included blogger, social media researcher, correspondence school instructor, clinical LMT, web designer and maintainer, technical writer, grant writer, sales clerk, and gold caster. Once upon a time she was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New SF/Fantasy Writer. Katharine’s work has long straddled the line: “too literary to be commercial, too commercial to be literary.”

In other words, she is ready to try success.

Published novels include the historical dark fantasies Night Calls and Kindred Rites , originally from HarperCollins/HarperPrism. They feature Alfreda Golden-tongue, the protagonist of short works "Night Calls," "Triad" and "Ducks." On the science fiction side of the business, you will find Fire Sanctuary, Fires of Nuala, and Hidden Fires, stand-alone science fiction tales which take place on the same planet. The SF was originally published by Warner Books. All five novels are now available as e-books from Book View Cafe, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Kobo.com and iTunes.com.

Katharine is a founding member of Book View Cafe.

To quote fellow member Sherwood Smith, "BVC is a cooperative publishing effort among authors across all genres, from science fiction to romance to historical to mainstream. We function as editors, copyeditors, formatters, cover artists, and site maintainers. We offer both reprints (currently in e-form, but we're looking at print options) and new books. 95% of the proceeds go to the authors. That means that the author gets more of the cover price at BVC than at any other online bookseller (Amazon, B&N, iTunes)."

Here is our latest offering, our blog is here, and this is my bookshelf.

Her non-fiction credits include articles on writing the perfect synopsis, and on finding an agent. Short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, AMAZING!, and such anthologies as ARABESQUES 2, THE BLOOD OF TEN CHIEFS, WEREWOLVES, DRAGON LORDS & WARRIOR WOMEN, and THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY II. She has a chapbook out from Yard Dog Press called WINGS OF MORNING -- it contains a metaphysical tale called "If I Take the WIngs of Morning" and an Alfreda short story called "Ducks."

Managed by a Burmese cat and a handful of gargoyles, Katharine's occasional hobbies have included ballroom dancing, brewing beer, antique roses, beading, Xeriscaping, making Ukrainian Easter eggs, and practicing on her Celtic harp Real Soon Now. She has been a macrobiotic/paleolithic practitioner for several years, but confesses to a weakness for high quality gluten free chocolate in infinitesimally small doses. She posts at her live journal (http://alfreda89.livejournal.com/) which runs downhill to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Goodreads and other points east.

Bibliography

Novels:

KINDRED RITES, (New York, New York: HarperPrism, a division of HarperCollinsPublishers, November, 1997.) © 1997 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. OOP. ISBN 0-06-105796-7. 110,000 words. E-book version (Book View Cafe) © January, 2014 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel ISBN 978-1-61138-354 6 (Available in EPUB &MOBI.) Trade paperback available!

NIGHT CALLS, (New York, New York: HarperPrism, an imprint of HarperPaperbacks, a division of HarperCollinsPublishers, May, 1996.) © 1996 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. OOP. ISBN 0-06-105411-9. 100,000 words. E-book edition (Book View Cafe) © September, 2013 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel ISBN 978-1-61138-320-1. (Available in EPUB, MOBI.) Trade paperback available!

HIDDEN FIRES, (New York, New York: Questar/Warner Books, Inc., February, 1991.) © 1991 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. OOP. ISBN 0-445-20761-2. 110,000 words. E-book edition (Book View Cafe) © 1991, 2011 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. ISBN: 978 1 61138 031 6. (Available at BVC in DRM-free file formats: EPUB, MOBI.) Kindle Edition © January, 2011 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. ASIN: B004IZL7F0. Nook Edition © December, 2011 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel BN ID: 2940013848184.

FIRES OF NUALA, (New York, New York: Questar/Warner Books, Inc., December 1988.) © 1988 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. OOP. ISBN 0-445-20759-0. 110,000 words. E-book edition (Book View Cafe) © 1988, 2010 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. 978 0 9828440 7 6. (Available at BVC in DRM-free file formats: EPUB, MOBI.) Kindle Edition © September, 2010 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. ASIN: B004A8ZSTG, Nook Edition © December, 2011 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel BN ID: 2940013848177 .

FIRE SANCTUARY, (New York, New York: Questar/Warner Books, Inc., October, 1986.) © 1986 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. OOP. ISBN 0-445-20275-0. 110,000 words. E-book edition (Book View Cafe) © 1986, 2011 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. ISBN: 978 1 61138 0569. (Available at BVC in DRM-free file formats: EPUB, MOBI.) Kindle Edition © March, 2011 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. ASIN: B004YWK8PC, Nook Edition © December, 2011 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel BN ID: 2940013848191.

Short Stories:

"Abide With Me" in The Shadow Conspiracy II, ed. Phyllis Irene Radford & Maya Bohnhoff. A steampunk anthology from Book View Cafe. (Book View Press: Book View Cafe, February, 2011.) © 2011 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. ISBN: 978 1 6113 043 9.

"Ducks," in Wings of Morning, by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. (Alma, Arkansas: Yard Dog Press, June, 2005.) © 2005 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. ISBN 1-893687-67-8. Kindle edition © July, 2013.

"Court and Chase," in Against the Wind: The Blood of Ten Chiefs, Volume 4, ed. Richard Pini (New York, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., October, 1990.) Anthology © 1990 by WaRP Graphics. Story © 1990 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. Trade ISBN 0-812-54906-6. Mass Market ISBN 0-812-52274-5.

"Feather of the Phoenix," in Arabesques II: Even More Tales of the Arabian Nights, ed. Susan Shwartz (New York, New York: Avon Books, Publishers, July, 1989.) Anthology © 1989 by Susan Shwartz. Story © 1989 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. ISBN 0-380-75570-X. Available in E-format (epub, mobi, pdf, prc & Kindle) in Dragon Lords and Warrior Women, ed. Phyllis Irene Radford (Book View Cafe, Publishers, March, 2010.) Anthology © 2010, Story © 1989, 2010 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. {This anthology is a fundraiser for Book View Cafe.}

"If I Take the Wings of Morning," in Lord of the Fantastic:Stories in honor of Roger Zelazny, ed. Martin H. Greenberg (New York, New York: Avon Books, Publishers, September 1998.) Anthology © 1998 by Avon Books, Inc., for the Estate of Roger Zelazny. Story © 1998 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. Trade ISBN 0-380-78737-7. Mass Market ISBN 0-380-80886-2. Reprinted in Wings Of Morning (Alma, Arkansas: Yard Dog Press, June, 2005.) © 2005 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. ISBN 1-893687-67-8.

"Metamorphosis," Hunter's Dawn: The Blood of Ten Chiefs, Volume 6, ed. Richard Pini (New York, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.) forthcoming.

"Night Calls," in Werewolves, ed. Jane Yolen and Martin H. Greenberg (New York, New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, September, 1988.) Anthology © 1988 by Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg. Story © 1988 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. ISBN 0-06-026798-4. Reprinted AMAZING Magazine, September, 1992.

"Personal Challenge," in Dark Hours: The Blood of Ten Chiefs, Volume 5, ed. Richard Pini (New York, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., June, 1993.) Anthology © 1993 by WaRP Graphics, Inc. Story © 1993 by KEK. Trade ISBN 0-812-52341-5.

"That Exploding Toilet Myth" in Flush Fiction, Volume I: Stories to Be Read in One Sitting, ed. Selina Rosen (Alma, Arkansas: Yard Dog Press, April, 2006.) © 2006 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. ISBN 1-893687-79-1. {This anthology of 1000 word stories is a fundraiser for the Yard Dog Press Emergency Medical Fund. All money from it, after printing cost, goes to the fund. This is a collection for adults [I.E. it has occasional bad words.])

"Triad," in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Ed Ferman. August, 1991. © 1991 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel.

"Wind Warning," in Winds of Change: The Blood of Ten Chiefs, Volume 3, ed. Richard Pini (New York, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., March, 1989.) Anthology © 1989 by WaRP Graphics, Inc. Story © 1989 by KEK. Trade ISBN 0-812-54905-8. Mass Market ISBN 0-812-50700-2.

Chapbooks:

Non-Fiction:

"The Agent's Game," Writer's Digest, February 1994, pp. 29-33. Reprinted in The Basics of Getting Started in Writing: A Writer's Digest Guide, Volume 16, Fall-Winter 1994, pp. 30-34. Reprinted in The Basics of Selling & Protecting Your Writing: A Survival Guide For Freelance Writers, Volume 19, 1996, pp. 49-53. © 1994 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel.

"How to Build a Novel Synopsis," Writer's Digest, January, 1996, pp. 30-34. © 1996 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. Reprinted in FICTIONWriter, Spring, 1997, pp. 45-49. © 1996 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel.

"Storming the Synopsis,"The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, © 1997 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel.

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