THE ONE SAFE PLACE nominated for
2004 RITA for Best Long Contemporary
Romance
Kathleen wrote her first book in the first grade. It was a
shameless derivative story about Dick and Jane, and was at least
seven pages long. Her mother loved it. Her first grade teacher,
Sister Anna Mary, loved it. But it would be almost three decades
before Kathleen attempted another novel.
In the meantime, though, she never stopped writing. She wrote
some awful poetry in high school, working through the typical
hormonal overreaction to having her heart broken by "the wrong boy."
After college, she took a newspaper job, and she eventually
worked her way up to the position of television critic before
throwing it all over to follow her heart, and her husband, a fellow
journalist, to make a home in Miami.
When her first child was born, and her life began to consist of
cleaning up after small creatures who didn’t understand indoor
plumbing, she decided she had to go back to writing. But she
couldn’t bear to leave her amazing little girl, so she turned once
again to novels. And because she was a born sentimentalist, and a
great believer in romance, she decided to try to write for
Harlequin.
Today, Kathleen still lives in Florida, still is married to the
same extraordinary man, and has two children she adores. Her
daughter is a university senior, a musical, magical beauty who has
become her best friend. Her son is a witty, wonderful member of the
tennis team and a handsome devil whose smile breaks hearts at
school, warms hearts at home.
Kathleen is a true Cancer, valuing home and friends above
everything. She still counts as her most important people her
sister, her best friend from childhood, her special buddy from high
school, and the friends she has made through the years, among other
writers.
She has a cockatiel named Lizzie, who terrorizes the other small
birds in her office/aviary. She loves flowers, colored cut glass,
Mozart ,and Elvis. She is addicted to The X-Files, Dorothy Dunnett
novels, and sugarfree Popsicles.
