Katherine Kirkpatrick’s Historical Novel Society Interview (10/25/2025) - INTERVIEW BY KAREN DRURY for The Historical Novel Society Katherine Kirkpatrick is the author of ten books, both fiction and nonfiction. When not flying over the Valley of the Kings in a hot air balloon or exploring the secret cabinets of Highclere Castle, she can be found at her computer in Seattle, Washington. Check out Katherine’s […]

Journey to the Valley of the Kings by Hot Air Balloon (8/28/2025) - The most fantastic thing I did to research my novel To Chase the Glowing Hours was to fly near the Valley of the Kings in a hot air balloon. My sister, Jen, brother-in-law, Eric, and niece, Alice, toured Egypt together. The balloon ride was my twenty-two-year-old niece’s idea. I have a great fear of heights, but I […]

The Cover of My New Book (3/6/2025) - Dark blue was a favorite color in ancient Egypt. It is the color of the sky, home to the gods. Blue represents the cosmos and spirituality. It’s precious like lapis lazuli. I particularly like this color, so I am glad to see it featured on my new book cover. Based on true-life characters and incidents, To […]

The Art of Ink Painting (7/21/2024) -             Painting pictures is a nice change of pace for me. What I usually do is write very long books. My books involve a lot of research and require numerous rewrites. My forthcoming novel, To Chase the Glowing Hours (Regal House, Fall 2025), was in the making for twelve years before I received a contract […]

Here’s The Story Book Launch, April 7 (3/24/2024) - Greetings, friends, I’m happy to tell you that I have a new book out as of March 5, 2024, Here’s The Story. . . Nine Women Write Their Lives, edited by Andrea Simon and published by Bedazzled Ink. The book evolved from a writing class taught by Andrea at Story Circle Network, https://www.storycircle.org. In this class, I […]

Here’s The Story. . . (9/17/2023) - I’m happy to announce the forthcoming publication of Here’s The Story. . . Nine Women Write Their Lives, edited by Andrea Simon, Bedazzled Ink, pub date March 2024. I have three essays in this anthology: “Book Parties a la Audrey Kirkpatrick,” about my mother’s lavish generosity, culinary and otherwise; “I Mak Siccar (I Make Sure),” […]

William Sidney Mount Presentations Now Available (9/1/2022) - Authors Katherine Kirkpatrick and Vivian Nicholson-Mueller will give an overview of William Sidney Mount’s paintings that feature Black and multiracial people, and present their original research involving Mount’s real-life models. For more information, please contact Katherine via this website. Past venues for this talk have included: The Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY The Ward […]

A Charmed Week (7/26/2022) -             For about a year and a half, but mostly within a week in July 2021, I experienced a series of fortuitous incidents when I was researching and writing my book The Art of William Sidney Mount: Long Island People of Color on Canvas (coauthored with Vivian Nicholson-Mueller, publication date September 5, 2022, The History Press). The book […]

Serving as a Mentor for SCBWI (4/16/2021) - It’s my great honor to be a mentor for middle-grade and young-adult fiction by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Editors (SCBWI), Western Washington chapter, for the 2021-2022 season. Applications for the program from the SCBWI membership are accepted from now through July 30. The mentors and mentees will work with each other for […]

A New Cover for Trouble’s Daughter (12/1/2020) - What happens when a book goes out of print? In the olden days, that was that. But nowadays you can reissue the book yourself via print-on-demand (POD) publishing. One of the pleasures of this route is to choose your own cover for the book.  For years I’d thought of reissuing my young adult novel Trouble’s Daughter: The […]

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