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Kathryn Knowles

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Kathryn Knowles is a composer, cellist, conductor, and writer currently based in Toronto, Ontario. She splits her time between writing, teaching, conducting, composing, and running Mad Endeavour.

In her spare time, Kathryn enjoys taking on new creative projects (i.e. filling up that “spare” time), spending time with friends and family, tending her ever-growing plant collection (obsession), and looking at pictures of puppies and dreaming of the day she can have one of her own.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 96 ratings · 44 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Relics of Illayan (The Quiescence Trilogy, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 60 ratings — 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
	The Warrior Queen (The Quiescence Trilogy, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — 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
	The Age of Resonance (The Quiescence Trilogy, #3) 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — 4 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
	These Gossamer Recollections: A Poetry Collection it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 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

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How to Balance Reading as an Author

There’s no denying, it’s difficult to make time to write a novel. We only have a specific amount of “free time” and we have to choose how to spend it. I used to spend all my free time writing and working on projects, but now I struggle to set aside even a few hours for this.

When I wrote The Quiescence Trilogy, I wasn’t reading anywhere near as much as I’m reading now. At the time, I told myself,

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The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth

by Michio Kaku

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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

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The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)

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