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Kathryn Craft

Kathryn Craft

Kathryn Craft is the award-winning author of two novels, The Far End of Happy and The Art of Falling, and the author of chapters in Author in Progress and The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing from Writers Digest Books. Her thirteen years as a freelance developmental editor at Writing-Partner.com follows a nineteen-year career as a dance critic. Currently serving as the Guiding Scribe of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, adjunct faculty at Drexel University’s MFA program, and as a monthly contributor to top writing blog Writer Unboxed, Kathryn also leads writing workshops and retreats. For more information, visit her on her website.

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5 Books That Will Make You Ugly Cry in Public

In my writing and my reading, I love those moments that move me to tears. Tears shake loose the things we hold the closest—and sometimes, those affinities even surprise us. While I am a sensitive sort, I assure you I’m not necessarily an easy mark. As a developmental editor for…
Kathryn Craft
April 10, 2019
Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Loyalties Shift in “Garden of Lies”

In 1943, as the prologue of Garden of Lies (Open Road Media) opens, a young woman named Sylvie succumbs to her first stirrings of true passion—with the handyman, Nikos, instead of her rich, older husband. She soon discovers she’s pregnant. Sylvie prays that the baby is her husband’s, but when the…
Kathryn Craft
December 13, 2018
Fiction

Tall Poppies Review: Tina Ann Forkner Wakes Up Emotions

My oh my but I have a thing for the Talleys. I must—I just finished reading Tina Ann Forkner’s Waking Up Joy  (Tule Publishing) for the second time. Image courtesy of amazon.com Joy Talley is the 40-something who has tasked herself with preserving her parents’ rural Oklahoma homestead as well…
Kathryn Craft
July 5, 2018