Kathy Harter is a Los Angeles native and a full time writer. Stories are a way of punishing the guilty or creating a world of make believe that we might want to be real. Writing is sometimes about having fun and sometimes a way to vent. Stories take us anywhere we want to go. Stories teach and let us think, make us laugh, make us cry, and often just pass the time in an enjoyable way.
A story might start by remembering something in my past that opens a door to characters and events, not that it happened but that a happy memory gets to linger during the writing. Sometimes an event on the news infuriates me and I can incorporate those feelings into a more satisfying end. Or about finding a community, about fitting in, and about a little kindness in troubled times. And sometimes I write a fictional character that I'd planned on becoming when I was twelve. Funny how things work out. Those characters are always braver, funnier, and more interesting, That's why it's called fiction.
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Kathy Harter is a Los Angeles native and a full time writer. Stories are a way of punishing the guilty or creating a world of make believe that we might want to be real. Writing is sometimes about having fun and sometimes a way to vent. Stories take us anywhere we want to go. Stories teach and let us think, make us laugh, make us cry, and often just pass the time in an enjoyable way.
A story might start by remembering something in my past that...
Henry Travis inherits his uncle’s dilapidated houseboat, and a dog named Captain, after he drowned in a drunken spill. Nestled at the cheap end of Locando Lane near a cove once pillaged by pirates and known locally as Loco Lane. This, in Henry’s mind, explains a few of the residents.
Also retrieved from the murky water is the body of a young...
Charlie Maclowd’s life is perfect. Or so she thought. Married to a wonderful man, living in the town she grew up in with friends she’s known all her life and a job on the local newspaper owned by her childhood friend. The only storm cloud is her husband is ready to start a family and she’s not so sure. On the day Bo Tyler, her first boyfriend,...
At the Global Economic Climate Responsibility Forum in Stockholm, Sweden a renowned Russian dissident, now living in the UK, is naming names. To protect his daughter, he asks his longtime friend, Bennett Daine, to bring her to America. She will be in the audience and most at risk as a pawn to stop her father from naming names that will derail...
Two CIA agents, Joshua Daine and Valerie Rhodes have been partners for a while. After a rocky start they've become dependent on each other. When she is kidnapped and he is shot, and separated, each will stop at nothing to find the other. Daine's father has an assignment,...
