About Kate
Welcome to The Bookshelf! I’m building it into a one-stop-shop for those looking to be published, improve their writing craft, join the publishing industry, learn more about the world of books, or even just find recommendations for great books. Browse around, say hello, and let me know who you are and how you found me!
Please mouse over the “About Kate” tab to see what I write, and click the others to read my blog and check out my critiquing services.
About Kate
Kate’s love for the written word goes back to when she was seven and her mother read her The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. That book taught her stories can mean something significant, and that in their characters people can see themselves. The words of the Skin Horse have stayed with her, as has the Rabbit’s desire to become Real.
Kate has collected many hats in the world of books, and she loves them all. She’s an associate editor with Month9Books and a part-time high school English teacher. She has interned with Entangled Publishing and the Carol Mann Agency, and is a novelist, a blogger, and, of course, a reader.
However, since jobs and hobbies don’t make up an entire person, here’s a bit more about her: she’s a diehard Harry Potter fan, but she’s never seen Die Hard. She’s an introvert, but she loves people- how they think, how they feel, who they are. Social justice issues, especially poverty, tend to make her jump up on her soapbox, but she’d love to listen to you and your soapbox topics too. Character-driven, high-stakes stories are her passion, regardless of genre. She’s an optimist, a fangirl, and an eternal enthusiast.
She loves hobbies, and has raised purebred Siberian Huskies, Samoyeds, and German Shepherds, made three-tier cakes, scrapbooked her childhood, assisted her husband on videography shoots, dabbled in candle carving, and has utterly failed at learning to swim. She loves to travel, though, and has been to Canada, the Dominican Republic, Italy, and Spain, and is very excited to visit Costa Rica in December 2013. Kate rarely stops listening to music, and her husband calls her a musical omnivore. One of these days, she will learn to play guitar.
She believes wine is best rich and red, chocolate is best smooth and dark, and books are best bittersweet.
Kate always enjoys hearing from her readers. Communications can be sent to:
katebrauning(at)gmail(dot)com
You can also find her on Twitter at: @KateBrauning
Hello Kate, found my way here from a twitter by someone else. (I don’t twitter yet). I appreciate that your blog is called the Bookshelf, and that your climbing the word ladder of writing/publishing/consulting. Im sure a great many of the comments you get or will get are from hopeful emerging writers. (Who doesn’t have a manuscript). My comment is simply that your site is helpful and useful. Thanks for the info, I will return and browse in depth. Your site is well organized and easy to navigate.
It is truly a pleasure to meet you, Kate. I hope we can talk soon. Your blog – and your winning personality – come highly recommended. Great cyber-haven you have here!
Hi Kate, Finished my book “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” by Ellen Feder & loved every minute of writing it. Am working on another although its not coming as easily but nevertheless enjoying the process. Never knew I had it in me quite the revelation! Will follow you through your many endeavors.& hope you will think about reading my book.
Hi Kate, your own history is so rich and fulfilling, and I love that your accomplishments include writing and short films! My Book is No More Tears: A Physician Turned Patient Inspires Recovery, and there is interest in making it into a movie. Wanted to stop by and wish you The Best in all you do!
Kate, I followed you here and on Twitter. When I post, I am blogging my book “3 Through History: Love in the Time of Republicans,” chapter by chapter. If you follow me, you get to take my book (completed Monday, but going up a chapter at a time) to the beach this summer. I will look more deeply at great ideas like “The Psychology of the Short Sentence.