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Reddit AMA (ask me anything) June 24!

I'm doing a socially distanced and virus-free AMA at /r/Fantasy about ThreadingTheLabyrinth! Ask me about the book, writing a novel for a PhD, teaching creative writing in higher education--you name it! See you all Wednesday at noon GMT.

Book Launch During the Apocalypse Part III: in which things don't happen and then do happen!

Things are weird.
 
I mean that in the sense of "I can't wait to see what happens next". Not in a morbid way, but in a "we are living during something that will be in the history books" way, and I am really curious to know the outcome.

One thing that IS clear is that publishing has been royally screwed up by the lockdown. Physical books aren't getting printed and, if printed, aren't getting shipped by the big online box stores. Some chains and indies are shipping books that they have on the...

Book Launch During the Apocalypse: Part II

Not two days after my last post and the publishers (Unsung Stories) and I have decided to delay the publication date of Threading the Labyrinth three months, to July 13. This was, in part, because yesterday Amazon UK removed the pre-order option for the physical book, explaining that in light of the C-19 emergency they were shifting attention away from shipping physical books; weirdly, today that option had re-appeared o the site. But with things in so much flux, it's likely that it might...

Book Launch during the Apocalypse

Did you ever think you'd be living through a pandemic? Neither did I.

And I really never expected it to hit right when my debut novel was about to be released.

For the past couple of months, I've been working with my publisher to set up book launches at Eastercon and Waterstones in Cambridge in April, and to plan a big party for myself in May. This week, however, my university has closed and I've been part of the countrywide (worldwide!) rush to move in-person teaching to online learning;...

THREADING THE LABYRINTH Cover Reveal!

The cover for my debut novel, Threading the Labyrinth, has been revealed!

Designed by award-winning cover artist Vince Haig , the cover evokes historical gardens with its botanical line drawings and garden plan (complete with a tiny column at the end of one path!).

Fantasy Hive initially unveiled the cover, where you can read more about what inspired the book and what it's about.

Pre-orders are open (find several links via my Publications page ).

New Year, New You and All That Jazz

2020: hopefully the year that solidifies some things, hopefully a year that settles into itself. It is only 5 days in and already it feels as if the universe is very much saying "hold my beer" when shown the past 3 years. Selfishly, I just want it all to stay okay enough for me to get my debut novel published and launched in April. If I never publish another novel after that, I'm okay--I will have at least seen one on the shelves.

The novel, Threading the Labyrinth, has been through many...

Dublin WorldCon schedule (August 15-19)

My panels for WorldCon:

Time travel novellas after the end of history
Saturday 16:00 - 16:50, Liffey Room-1 (CCD)
Time travel is as fascinating to writers now as it has always been, but its portrayal has evolved in recent years. How do the preoccupations of time travel writers today differ from those of the past? Do they see new futures, and how do they reimagine the past? How have changes in the publishing landscape encouraged these new time travel plots and experiments?
[me!, Kate Heartfield, K...

So what's a PhD in Creative Writing all about? (an article)

Over at the online magazine Women Writers, Women's Books, I've posted "Doing a PhD in Creative Writing: Is it for Everyone?" where I talk about what it's like to do a PhD in Creative Writing, and whether it might be a good choice for someone thinking about committing several years of their life to the pursuit of the highest academic degree *in making things up*. 

Stay tuned for a Part 2 coming later. 

"What Cannot be Described" in The Book of Flowering

My newest story, "What cannot be Described", is out in Egaeus Press's newest limited-edition book, The Book of Flowering. It's a story about Maria Sybilla Merian, an artist and entomologist at the turn of the 18th century, who goes to Suriname to study the insects there. She hears about a mysterious moth, and her curiosity leads her into the jungle where, ill with a fever, she finds more than she expected. Limited to 350 copies, you can find more details  here .  ...

In Which I Have Opinions About Princesses

I could never be accused of being a wallflower, and when people ask what I think about something, I'll tell them. Some call it oversharing; I call it being heard. Recently, Charlotte Bond, author, editor, and one of the hosts at the Breaking the Glass Slipper podcast (remember in March when I shared my opinions about tampons and women's bodies in apocalyptic fiction? Of course you do!) asked me to answer some questions she's been posing to authors about one of our favorite characters: the pri...