Kate Padilla is a journalist, writer, blogger and book reviewer who operates the blog Blondie Marie and writes for the Spencer Daily Reporter in Spencer, Iowa. Save Me, San Francisco is her first book, though she's tentatively beginning what she hopes to be a novel (also inspired by music). When she's not writing (or reading), she's running, crafting or helping renovate the house she and her husband bought three years ago. She lives in Spencer, Iowa with her husband, their one-year-old son and two pugs.