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Category: Eye of the Kat

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Where do you get your ideas?

  • Katherine Tomlinson
  • Posted on December 15, 2016May 21, 2020

Where you you get your ideas? Harlan Ellison used to answer that question by saying…

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Identity Crisis

  • Katherine Tomlinson
  • Posted on September 15, 2016May 21, 2020

Alice Bradley Sheldon, the Bronte Sisters, Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, Mary Ann Evans, Louisa May Alcott—all of…

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If A Tree Falls

  • Katherine Tomlinson
  • Posted on June 17, 2016May 20, 2020

To say that I have mixed feelings about promoting my work is an understatement. “If…

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It’s Time to Bite the Bullet: Taking Responsibility for Violence in Fiction

  • Katherine Tomlinson
  • Posted on March 17, 2016May 20, 2020

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot…

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Getting Real

  • Katherine Tomlinson
  • Posted on December 16, 2015May 20, 2020

I used to write a lot of crime and horror fiction and the horror, especially,…

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Place as Character

  • Katherine Tomlinson
  • Posted on September 17, 2015May 19, 2020

I grew up all over the place but I came of age in Los Angeles.…

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A New York state of mind. Only not.

  • Katherine Tomlinson
  • Posted on June 10, 2015May 19, 2020

Can I tell you a secret? If I never read another love story set in…

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In praise of E.L. James

  • Katherine Tomlinson
  • Posted on March 25, 2015May 19, 2020

I know a lot of people who couldn’t wait for the movie version of 50 Shades…

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Gender Bender

  • Katherine Tomlinson
  • Posted on October 21, 2014May 19, 2020

Some of the most enduring female characters in literature were created by male authors—Miss Havisham…

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Sisterhood is powerful in “Family Matters”

  • Katherine Tomlinson
  • Posted on October 7, 2014May 18, 2020

In this latest collection of short stories by members of the New York Tri-State Sisters…

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