by Katherine Villyard | Dec 9, 2022 | press, short fiction
Holy Cannoli, y’all! With LOVE STORIES, author Katherine Villyard marries her vast intellect and riveting imagination in a short-story collection of speculative fiction that shines with straightforward yet elegant prose. ~Robin L Harvey for IndieReader Yeah, the...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 6, 2022 | giveaways
Do you want a free paperback copy of Love Stories? I’m doing a Newsletter Giveaway! A random new subscriber in December will win a signed paperback. Katherine Villyard has an easy-to-read writing style and a unique imagination that kept me eager to discover the...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 30, 2022 | about me, singing
…maybe I should link to videos of choirs that contain me. 😉 Summer Singers of Atlanta, 2014 Zimria Festivale, 2015 Zimria Festivale, 2015 Summer Singers, 2015 Summer Singers, 2015 Summer Singers 2017 Summer Singers 2018 Summer Singers...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 21, 2022 | geekiness
Okay, I’ve been playing with this for less than 24 hours and it’s not my daily driver phone or anything, so… disclaimer. If you’re not familiar with Purism, they’re the makers of absolutely gorgeous tech for the technoparanoid. (They also...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 31, 2022 | short fiction
Love Stories is out and available for order on Amazon and all your other favorite book-buying platforms! (Except the Amazon paperback. Try Barnes and Noble.) If you enjoy it, it would really help me out if you left a...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 30, 2022 | novels, vampires
And what could be more appropriate for Halloween than this video about Bram Stoker and the Fears that Built...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 15, 2022 | novels
1. Scrivener. We all know Scrivener is cool, right? View your text as either an individual scene, a giant block, or a corkboard or outline. Reorder scenes and chapters with ease. Export to various formats, but I really only use Word/RTF. Seriously, moving your...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 8, 2022 | giveaways, novels, writing stats
Okay, honestly? I don’t consider myself an Excel guru. That said, I’ve shared versions of this spreadsheet with other writers and they agree that it is SUPER MOTIVATING. This spreadsheet works by being both the carrot and the stick simultaneously. 😉 It...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 6, 2022 | novels, writing stats
I have a large swath of text with characters, plot, setting, and a beginning, middle, and end. It’s currently 52,489 words, which is (as you know, Bob,) too short. My writer’s group warned me repeatedly that it would be too short, but I’m not that...
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 21, 2022 | giveaways, short fiction
If you would like to read an advance copy of the collection, you can do it at Booksprout, Story Origin, or Book Sirens. If you just want a free copy, there’s a Goodreads Giveaway going on now! That is all....