I’m very excited to welcome Kate Heartfield to our BookBrowse Community Forum.
Kate is the author of several fantasy novels, including The Tapestry of Time (2024), about four clairvoyant sisters in WWII, which the BookBrowse Online Book Club discussed in September. She’s also written The Valkyrie (2023), a retelling of old Norse and Germanic legends, and the Sunday Times bestseller The Embroidered Book (2022), about Marie Antoinette and her sister Maria Carolina. Additionally, she’s the author of two works of interactive fiction through Choice of Games, and Assassin’s Creed tie-in novels. She has won the Aurora Award for Best Novel three times and was a co-winner of the Nebula Award for Game Writing. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Locus, Aurora, Sunburst, Scribe, and Crawford awards, as well as the Ottawa Book Award, and her journalism for a National Newspaper Award. Kate grew up in Manitoba and now lives in Ottawa.
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Kate, thanks for being here! Please tell our group a little about yourself.