about me

The House in Windward Leaves is available on Kindle and in paperback. It's a middle grade Halloween fantasy with more humor than horror.

I revised The Swan Bonnet while I waited for the HC review and was glad that their comments corresponded with many of my changes. The book is now intended for Historical and YA readers. The prologue and first chapters are newly rewritten in 10-2012. I've signed a contract with GMTA Publishing (Great Minds Think Aloud) for The Swan Bonnet.

The Wide Awake Loons is now published by Silver Knight Publishing.

In 2012, my short story collection, Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories was published by Hollywood Books International, the fiction imprint of Press Americana.

Thank you for the comments on Claude: A Dog of the Sixties as they were helpful while I revised my fictionalized version of a childhood pet.


I return reads and like the opportunity to swap. From childhood, I was a browser of the New Arrivals rack at the nearest library.

favourite books

The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing, Feast of July by H. E. Bates, Shallows by Tim Winton, Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Aaron's Rod by D. H. Lawrence, L'Assommoir by Emile Zola, Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell ...

my websites

http://home.earthlink.net/~klouholmes/     http://katherinelholmes.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-be