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Kat Howard

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Chicago, IL, The United States

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Fantasy, Horror, Comics

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Kat Howard is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, and horror who lives and writes in Minnesota.

Her novella, The End of the Sentence, co-written with Maria Dahvana Headley, was one of NPR's best books of 2014, and her debut novel, Roses and Rot was a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. An Unkindness of Magicians was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, and won a 2018 Alex Award. Her short fiction collection, A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, collects work that has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, performed as part of Selected Shorts, and anthologized in year’s best and best of volumes, as well as new pieces original to the collection. She was the writer for the first 18 issues of The Books of Magic, part of DC Comics' Sa ...more

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	An Unkindness of Magicians (The Unseen World, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 10,515 ratings — published 2017 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roses and Rot 3.56 avg rating — 3,549 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moveable Type (Books of Magic, #1) by Kat Howard (Goodreads Author), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 1,093 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cathedral of Myth and Bone 3.92 avg rating — 712 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Sleight of Shadows (The Unseen World, #2) 3.62 avg rating — 625 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Second Quarto (Books of Magic, #2) by Kat Howard (Goodreads Author), Tom Fowler (Illustrator), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dwelling in Possibility (Books of Magic, #3) by Kat Howard (Goodreads Author), Tom Fowler (Illustrator) 3.78 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Books of Magic (2018) #1 3.76 avg rating — 246 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Books of Magic (2018) #2 by Kat Howard (Goodreads Author), Kai Carpenter (Cover Art), Jordan Boyd (Colorist) 3.78 avg rating — 107 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Books of Magic (2018) #3 by Kat Howard (Goodreads Author), Kai Carpenter (Cover Art), Jordan Boyd (Colorist) 3.71 avg rating — 83 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Unseen World (2 books)
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3.72 avg rating — 11,140 ratings

Books of Magic (2018) (Single Issues) (23 books)
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Kai Carpenter (Cover Art),

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Tom Fowler (Penciller)

3.72 avg rating — 3,074 ratings

Books of Magic (2018) (3 books)
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Tom Fowler (Illustrator)

3.72 avg rating — 1,828 ratings

O Universo de Sandman: Os Livros Da Magia (4 books)
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Kat Howard (Goodreads Author) (Writter),

Simon Spurrier (Writter),

Tom Fowler (Illustrator)

3.67 avg rating — 1,134 ratings

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“Becoming hurts.”
― Kat Howard

tags: beautiful-writing, transformation, truth

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“Perhaps the only happily ever after is to survive to tell the story”
― Kat Howard, Roses and Rot

tags: fairy-tale, survival

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“This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale.
You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life.”
― Kat Howard, Roses and Rot

tags: fairy-tales, life

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May Fantasy -- The following poll decides which two books will go to

the final round of polls for May 2018's Fantasy BOTM.

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

34 votes, 43.6%

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

15 votes, 19.2%

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

12 votes, 15.4%

Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson

6 votes, 7.7%

Roses and Rot by Kat Howard

6 votes, 7.7%

First Watch by Dale Lucas

5 votes, 6.4%

78 total votes

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