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
If you plant seeds—
—be sure to water them. I declared my intention to grow flowers in memory of my husband. He was a much better gardener than I. Of course, I had to weed first. Winter brought us a lot of rain, which resulted in an extra large crop of weeds (still undefeated). Many I can’t name, but…
In-Between Season
With apologies to my readers, lately I’ve been in stasis. Essentially, my world has stood still. When I began this blog, we were between cold and warm, with more of each to follow. My apricot tree had already opened its first blossoms, which bodes poorly for the survival of any apricots. Bumper crops happen rarely.…
Rules
Love rules. Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone. Characters rule. I’m still struggling with the climax to Quantum Quest (the first draft of which was scheduled to be completed in 2023). But, as I’ve been saying for months, it is inching forward. My latest discovery is 1) I’ve got lots of characters to settle; 2) I’ve failed…
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