Category Archives: Kate’s Posts

Kate Flora: The advice one gets, as we age, is “travel while you can.” Of course, we never know when something will strike. But as the sand runs through the hour glass, my husband and I have decided we’d better be … Continue reading →

Kate Flora: How do I know it’s spring? Maybe because I’ve spend the past week on my hands and knees in the garden, digging out the persistent gout weed? Maybe because my back aches and the knees of all my … Continue reading →

Kate Flora: I was going to write a post today about voice in our fiction, but I got bogged down in references and watching YouTube videos and taking notes. I got frustrated and headed out to the garden, which is … Continue reading →

Kate Flora: March is the month when I usually write one or two short stories along with whatever else I’m writing. The process of writing short stories is different from the way I write novels, and it reminds me of … Continue reading →

Kate Flora: As many of you know, I spent ten years in the unpublished writers’ corner before I sold my first book, eight before I got an agent and two more before that book saw the light. It was hard … Continue reading →

Kate Flora: Starting a new book in a long-running series is like getting together with old friends not seen for a while. That’s where I am right now. I’m only about four chapters into the next Thea Kozak mystery, Until … Continue reading →

Kate Flora: Another February. I used to joke that I always went crazy in February. I think we’ve solved that by doing more traveling in January. But the early months of the year are often a time when I find … Continue reading →

Kate Flora: When I was a kid growing up in a small Maine town, the high point of the week was the trip to the Vose Library. I would take out a great stack of books, read them throughout the week, … Continue reading →

Kate Flora: I don’t think that I’ve confessed my fondness for buttons here before. I’m not a collector. I don’t have a nice stack of reference books handy to teach me about buttons–their history, materials, etc, or their value. I do … Continue reading →