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Kathryn Cottam

Goodreads Author

Born

in Canada

March 16

Website

http://kathryncottam.com

Genre

Fiction, Fantasy

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Member Since

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Kathryn Cottam has a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Victoria and is a graduate of the Vancouver Film School Screenwriting Program. Kathryn has worked as both a story editor and a Judge for numerous screenwriting competitions. Her script, Bus Station Zombies, was a semi-finalist at the Austin Film Festival Writing Competition and her first novel, The Shoemaker: A Tale of Love, Magic & Unnatural Acts was nominated for best Fantasy Novel of 2013 with InD’Tale Magazine’s RONE Awards. Kathryn recently completed two story compilations, Three Short Tales of Red and Fabled with Roberta Cottam & K.M.Tremills.

A gothic novel enthusiast with a penchant for dark drama, Kathryn is currently writing her next novel.

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While we’re in the midst of May Magic, toodle on over to Goodreads and enter our competition to win a free copy of Fabled by myself, K.M. Tremills & Roberta Cottam. Its a fantastic book of seventeen contemporary tales inspired fairy tales, myths and nursery rhymes.

p.s. there might also be a bit of poetry awaiting you on Goodreads …

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Average rating: 4.18 · 109 ratings · 28 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Infinite Pieces Volume 1: "The Devil's Punchbowl" and Other Horror Stories by Sean Platt (Goodreads Author), Jason Krumbine (Goodreads Author), Kathryn Cottam (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 55 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shoemaker: A Tale of Love, Magic & Unnatural Acts 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fabled: 17 Tales You Think You Know by Kathryn Cottam (Goodreads Author), Roberta Cottam, K.M. Tremills (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bluebeard's Bride by Kathryn Cottam (Goodreads Author), Roberta Cottam 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Short Tales of Red by Kathryn Cottam (Goodreads Author), Roberta Cottam, K.M. Tremills (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infinite Pieces Volume 3: "A Good Day To Die" and other Thriller Stories by Sean Platt (Goodreads Author), Wade Peterson (Goodreads Author), Emme Jackson 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infinite Pieces Volume 4:: "Searching for Sin" and Other Horror Stories by Sean Platt (Goodreads Author), Kathryn Cottam (Goodreads Author), Kim M. Watt (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr. Tittletattle's Fairy Tale: A Short Story 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infinite Pieces Volume 2: “Frenemy” and Other Young Adult Stories by Sean Platt (Goodreads Author), Kim M. Watt (Goodreads Author), Cameron Stone really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Haunting of Castle Horace 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Unnaturalists (The Unnaturalists, #1)

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“Silence is a necessary requirement for unnatural acts.”
― Kathryn Cottam, The Shoemaker, A Tale of Love, Magic & Unnatural Acts

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“Silence is a necessary requirement for unnatural acts.”
― Kathryn Cottam, The Shoemaker, A Tale of Love, Magic & Unnatural Acts

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“When you control the Messenger, you control the Message.”
― Kate Tremills, Messenger

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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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“I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: marriage-proposal

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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