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Upcoming Book:
Title: Immortal Gifts
Author: Katherine Villyard
Publication date: February 4, 2025
Publisher: Katherine Villyard
ISBN: ebook 979-8-9868330-3-3, paperback 979-8-9868330-6-4, hardcover 979-8-9868330-7-1, large print paperback 979-8-9868330-5-7, audiobook 979-8-9868330-8-8
Cover by Damonza
Audiobook narrator: Artistic Whispers Productions
Available In: ebook | paperback | large print paperback | hardcover | audiobook
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy
Buy link: https://books2read.com/immortalgifts
He lied about his identity. Two hundred years later, he’s still paying the price…
Prussia, 1841. Abraham only ever wanted to play violin. Hiding his Jewish status so he can study at the prestigious Berlin Academy of Music, the eager young man is delighted to find a patron who believes in him. But he’s mortified when his new friend turns him into a vampire… and Abraham earns the fury of an ancient antisemite who vows to see him permanently dead.
Fleeing the hate-mongering fiend across the decades, the sensitive violinist at last settles in twenty-first-century New Jersey with a mortal woman. But when he discovers his relentless tormentor has tracked him down yet again, Abraham despairs he’ll never find true happiness.
With everyone he’s ever loved at risk, can he escape the rage of a ruthless bigot?
In a complex tale woven through history, Katherine Villyard delivers a fresh and insightful twist on the vampire novel. Infusing the narrative with profound themes of love, betrayal, and the nature of monsters, she crafts an unforgettable saga of surviving prejudice that will keep readers turning pages deep into the night.
Immortal Gifts is the thoughtful first book in the Immortal Vampires contemporary fantasy series. If you like well-drawn characters, dual-timeline storytelling, and pulse-pounding suspense, then you’ll adore Katherine Villyard’s compelling read.
Buy Immortal Gifts to tap a vein of devotion today!
Previous Book:
Title: Love Stories
Author: Katherine Villyard
Publication date: Oct 31st, 2022
Publisher: Katherine Villyard
ISBN: ebook 979-8-9868330-0-2, paperback 979-8-9868330-1-9, hardcover 979-8-9868330-2-6
Cover by Damonza
Audiobook narrator: Kyle Akers
Available In: ebook | paperback | hardcover | audiobook
Genre: Science Fiction Short Stories, Fantasy Short Stories, Horror Short Stories
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Buy link: https://books2read.com/kvlovestories
An imaginative collection that puts a modern spin on beloved fairy tales and myths.
– Kirkus Reviews
Short Bio:
Katherine’s parents met singing opera and started taking her to choir practice when she was six weeks old. She attended four elementary schools and four high schools before getting master’s degrees in art and library science. So naturally she works in IT, abusing SQL Server for fun and profit. When she’s not working or writing, she’s probably playing the Sims or spoiling cats.Her greatest ambition is to rule the world.
Long Bio:
Katherine Villyard was born in Dallas, Texas. Her father was civilian support for the military, so she moved every two years and attended four different high schools. The most exotic one to US readers will probably be Kaiserslautern American High School in Germany, but her favorite was Arts Magnet High School at Booker T. Washington in Dallas, where she studied theater. She also went through a phase where she wore a lot of white dresses and sat in windowsills writing (bad) poetry; what she called her “Emily Dickinson phase.”
Katherine’s first short story, a tale of a clown in a balloon, was well received in First Grade and proudly displayed for the entire school to read. She wrote the odd short story in high school about such topics as forced conformity and parodies of horror movies.
Katherine’s mother wanted her to major in Computer Science in college. Katherine has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio ceramics and weaving. She has two Master’s degrees: one in Fine Arts and the other in Library Science. So, of course, Katherine went into Information Technology (Computer Science) after being “poached” by her University’s Academic Computing department, where she worked as a student assistant while in grad school. She wrote web sites for pay from 1995 to 2002.
She started writing again during the “dot bomb” crash. Following a trip to the unemployment office filled from wall to wall with unemployed software engineers and web developers, she spotted an online listing to write lesbian erotica for a hundred dollars and said to herself, “I can do that!” She wrote the story, sent it off… and never heard back. She wrote as a hobby for some time, but when friends started sending things out to be published she jumped off that roof as well. (Insert disapproving Mom face here.) Her work has appeared in Escape Pod, Electric Velocipede, and Fantastic Stories of the Imagination.
Katherine is a former Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security and Cloud and Datacenter Management, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, a member of the Horror Writers Association, and the President of Broad Universe. She has a tendency to develop nerdy fascinations and research binge. Previous topics include Pueblo pottery, Navajo weaving, Pre-Columbian art, Frida Kahlo, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. When she’s not writing, working, or research binging, she’s probably spoiling cats or playing The Sims.
Her greatest ambition is to rule the world.
I’m IndieReader Approved!
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 whole...