Kate Harrington
Kate Harrington breaks her life into four bookish sections. First, her childhood spent reading reading, reading: in the apple tree consuming green apples; in the basement on hot summer afternoons; in bed, of course!
After a break for college degrees, she read aloud to her own kids, where she rediscovered a love of children’s literature. The perfect followup to that was a library career specializing in youth services. Now in retirement, she has the time to write.
She writes science fiction because, as an incurable optimist, she has to find hope in our future; and she re-envisions fairy tales to discover the hidden wisdom of the past.
Needing to feel rooted to a place (possibly due to moving across the country at the age of almost-three), she explores the many ways a person can come home—to self, to loved ones, and even to this blue-green planet Earth.
Books
Pawn Quest – Book 1 of a trilogy, three teens connected to a mystery of disappearances find themselves uprooted and shipped into space on a journey they never imagined or desired.
Ty’s Choice is a companion novel to Pawn Quest. Ten-year-old Ty’s attempts to save his mother propel him from his people’s subterranean world beneath Dodge City into the enticing promise and danger of outside.
Planet Quest – Book 2 of the Pawn Quest trilogy. Thirteen teens lost on a hostile world. They’ll starve if not found soon. Ran and Aryn set out in search across a windy prickly landscape.
Pawn Quest
Planet Quest
Ty’s Choice
BLOG UPDATE
From Kate’s Blog
In Praise of Small Things
Now Thursday, I apologize for missing my self-appointed deadline of Wednesday blogs. My jacket illustrator needed some questions answered, and the morning disappeared. So here’s a collection of small offerings, a day late. I spend a lot of time watching the sky while walking Sophie. especially the puffy clouds scudding across that overhead New Mexican…
Past and Present
Someday I hope to have good news to announce, i.e. the publication date for Quantum Quest, which brings to a close my many years of writing the Pawn Quest trilogy. Those years reflect my involvement, not the far shorter time that actually passes in the tale. Meanwhile, I’m preparing an Afterward to be included in…
Recipes for Balance
Saffron crocuses in my backyard. Every day or two there are new blossoms from which to harvest the red stigmas. What luxury! Years ago, while waiting to hear back from a job application, I gave myself orders to: Take a walk. Talk to someone. Write something. I see now that that recipe served me to…
