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Katherine Villyard

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Katherine Villyard is an award-winning author of speculative fiction and the President of Broad Universe, an organization promoting women and other traditionally marginalized genders in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her cats. When she’s not writing, she’s probably working at her day job in IT, spoiling cats, or playing The Sims. Her greatest ambition is to rule the world.

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Katherine Villyard Oh, thank you! <3 I'm so glad; it's one of my favorites!

I'm releasing a collection of short stories that includes "Saving Alan Idle" on Halloween, and…more
Oh, thank you! <3 I'm so glad; it's one of my favorites!

I'm releasing a collection of short stories that includes "Saving Alan Idle" on Halloween, and am working on a novel. (First draft complete!)(less)
Katherine Villyard My novel is in revisions! It's a vampire novel.

What happens if you're permanently the person you were when you were 19, physically? Sounds great! but …more
My novel is in revisions! It's a vampire novel.

What happens if you're permanently the person you were when you were 19, physically? Sounds great! but is it still great if everyone you love, your parents, siblings, wife, adopted children, pets... are all still mortal and all die? Can a vampire live a normal human life, or a semblance of one?

I'm also working on a prequel short story set in the same universe.(less)
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The Immortal Gifts Podcast: Episode 13

Scheherazade

Welcome to The Immortal Gifts Podcast, where Dave Robison, Veronica Giguerre, and J Daniel Sawyer read my novel, Immortal Gifts, to you. In episode thirteen, we play our signature violin solo, based on the story of Scheherazade who told stories for 1001 nights.

If you’d like to support the podcast, the audiobook is available in all the places, and I also have a Patreon.

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“Eileen's eyelids fluttered. Alan wondered if she was dreaming. He didn't dream, but he was fascinated by this phenomenon where people rest and this whole narrative is shown to them by their own minds. He wondered if that was why Eileen wrote stories and he didn't. Then he wondered if that was why he loved to read stories so much.”
Katherine Villyard, Love Stories

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
Jean-Paul Sartre

“I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don't experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I'm a construct. I am a living program inside a vast network of electronic impulses known as the LINK. In that datastream I've uncovered the meaning of another kind of dreaming--that of a fond hope or aspiration, a yearning, a desire, or a passion. This much I have. When I dream, I dream of Mecca.”
Lyda Morehouse, Fallen Host

“Almsgiving is a major tenet of Islam. It's also a kick in the pants of the highest order. Nothing is as cool as skimming off a couple of hundred thousand from some multinational corporation and handing it out to random strangers. Or writing a harmless little virus that makes credit counters "forget" to send a surcharge back to the bank after each purchase. Oh, sure, technically I'm supposed to give away my own money, but whatever. I'm sure Allah gets the spirit of what I'm doing here. ”
Lyda Morehouse, Messiah Node

“Where was this written? I wondered. Where in the Talmud or the Koran or the Bible did it say, "Lo, and Satan fetcheth the coffee for the Antichrist and her minions"?”
Lyda Morehouse, Apocalypse Array

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
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