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Katrin van Dam

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Young Adult

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Katrin van Dam has worked in children’s media and licensing for nearly thirty years and is currently a creative executive at a major media company. In 2018, Scholastic published her debut young adult novel, Come November. A few months later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy. After getting a taste of the societal pressure to have reconstruction, she felt compelled to provide a resource for women who are facing this difficult decision. Flat and Happy, her first work of nonfiction, came out of that commitment.

Kat lives with her husband in New York City. She is an avid theatergoer and enjoys hosting raucous dinner parties and traveling. She is also passionate about good food, storytelling, and saving our be ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Katrin van Dam For me, motion is the answer. I write on the move, which is to say that I dictate into my phone while I'm walking, and then try to decode it later at …moreFor me, motion is the answer. I write on the move, which is to say that I dictate into my phone while I'm walking, and then try to decode it later at my computer. There are some rules, though. It has to be in a place that's familiar, and it has to be solitary -- if anyone else is with me, that part of my brain doesn't come out to play. But if I'm stuck, and I go take a walk in Riverside Park, I usually find that the blockage clears.(less)

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Katrin van Dam Getting to create, and then inhabit, a world is surprisingly enjoyable. When I was really deep into working on Come November, there were times when I …moreGetting to create, and then inhabit, a world is surprisingly enjoyable. When I was really deep into working on Come November, there were times when I felt as though the fictional place and characters that I had created were almost as real to me as my own world and the people in it. They started to kind of invade my thoughts, to the point where sometimes I had to remind myself that this was all something I had just made up. That was pretty cool. And then, after working for about three years without ever showing a word to another living soul, to have other people read my manuscript and start talking about my characters as though they were real people ("I don't believe she would do this," was a comment that came up a fair amount in the early editing of the book)… It was funny and amazing to me. There was something so touching about the idea that people were buying into this world so much that they wanted to defend these characters, like they knew them.(less)

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Average rating: 3.87 · 703 ratings · 116 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Come November 3.79 avg rating — 647 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Flat and Happy: Mastectomy and Flat Closure - A Personal, Practical Guide by Katrin van Dam (Goodreads Author), Camelia Lawrence, Wendy Myers 4.78 avg rating — 55 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
	My Mastectomy Planner by Katrin van Dam (Goodreads Author), Camelia Lawrence it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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

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“I don’t regret my choice, I regret that I had to make a choice in the first place.”
― Katrin van Dam, Flat and Happy: Mastectomy and Flat Closure - A Personal, Practical Guide

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