Kate Brody

Aug 19, 2024 | thecreativeindependent.com | Kate Brody

Writer Kate Brody discusses the secrets of publishing, building community, and advocating for yourself Writing, Failure, Process, Promotion, Day jobs, Time management Part of: Creating your own opportunities Making time for creative work Getting an education Having a day job Making a living Being online Highlights on Rabbit Hole feels like a cautionary tale. Is it? The internet part of it, for sure.

Jun 6, 2024 | crimereads.com | Kate Brody

In 2014, two 12-year-old girls lured their friend into the Wisconsin woods and stabbed her 19 times, as a tribute to the fictional entity Slender Man. The case captured the public’s imagination and sparked a debate about the effect of the internet on young minds—one that it feels we have yet to resolve. Kat Davis’s tender, lyrical debut, In a Dark Mirror, is told in two braided timelines that explore a similar (though fictional) crime and its wide-ranging repercussions.

Jun 4, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Kate Brody

I first met Barrie Miskin in the summer of 2023 in Astoria, about a mile away from the titular Hell Gate Bridge. All I knew then was that she was a writer, and she lived in my old neighborhood. We had coffee at Martha’s Country Bakery and talked about our kids, our teaching careers, and the endless struggle to find writing time. I found her endearing and sweet, and I asked her to send me the memoir she was editing. When I got the PDF of Hell Gate Bridge, I read it in a single night.

Apr 17, 2024 | wfdd.org | Bethanne Patrick |Amy Tintera |Kate Brody

Welcome back, mystery and thriller devotees! These books will take you from murder in present-day Texas to cryptography in Cold War Berlin to an online community that might hold the solution to a missing-person case. Happy reading!Savannah Harper, the sweetheart of Plumpton, Texas, died from blows to her head. A few hours later, her best friend forever, Lucy Chase, was found wandering the town streets covered in blood.

Feb 28, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Wynter K. Miller |Kate Brody

Lawn Care Tips From My Dad’s Ghost When you first appeared in my backyard, riding the big red mower you bought in ‘99, I was thrilled. You had been dead almost twenty years, and I missed you like crazy. It was the smell. Your sweat mixed with exhaust and grass clippings. It clung to your stained white T-shirt. It smelled like home, like Holmdel, three thousand miles away. “What are you doing here?” I shouted over the noise. “Fine,” you said, stopping the engine. “Hop on.”I did as I was told.