Upcoming Presentation (9/1/2022) - Sunday, July 16, 2023 3 – 5 p.m. Authors Katherine Kirkpatrick and Vivian Nicholson-Mueller In-Person Presentation The Floyd Memorial Library 539 First Street Greenport, New York 11944 (631) 477-0660 Free to the public Authors Katherine Kirkpatrick and Vivian Nicholson-Mueller will give an overview of William Sidney Mount’s paintings that feature Black and multiracial people, and […]
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 […]



Announcing Editorial Services (9/13/2016) - Manuscript Evaluation and Consultations Virtually all novelists ask for feedback on their manuscripts before they show their work to their agents and editors. I have had the great pleasure of helping many unpublished writers launch their careers. I believe the next best thing to belonging to a writers’ support group is to receive a professional […]
This Blog is Moving to KatherineKirkpatrick.com (11/11/2015) - From today the blog has moved to the full website katherinekirkpatrick.com where you can also find a full portfolio of books. Blog subscribers here on WordPress may want to visit the new site to subscribe to email updates for new blogposts there.
Interview with Katherine Kirkpatrick by Susan Hill Long (9/19/2014) - Susan: What made you realize you wanted to be a writer? Do you have any advice for aspiring writers? Katherine: In the sixth grade, I wrote a story about vampire bats attacking a scientist. That year I won my first English prize, the first of many, and writing became “my thing.” I followed a family […]
Celebrating Fifteen Years of Redcoats and Petticoats (6/6/2014) - Recently an envelope arrived in the mail from the literary agency that represented my earliest published work. Only one of those titles, my 1999 picture book Redcoats and Petticoats, remains in print. When royalties start to dwindle, an out-of-print notice usually follows. It seemed to me I had a […]
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