Matt Bell Featured Land Beast on an Eco-Fabulism Panel at AWP

I couldn't be more flattered that Matt pieced my piece as one of the examples in his Fabulist Fiction for a Hot Planet! panel. 

Here's an interview in the Sonora Review that mentions his development of the panel. The interviewer mentions my story. 

Matt has since used this talk twice. 

Two Reviews of Black Krim

Click here for a review from JMWW

Click here for a review from Readers Lane

I'm happy the book connected with both reviewers, and I'm especially happy it brought up memories of being outside in the dirt, in the elements.

Black Krim now available

On Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Powell's.

The Cobalt site remains the least expensive right now.

Flyer for the party

Lovely release party

I don't think I could have asked for a better release party. It was at the EMP Collective in downtown Baltimore. It's a multi-purpose art space. The energy was perfect. I'm grateful to Brad Leroy-Cartwright for agreeing to host it there, and for such great lighting and sound.

Madison Smartt Bell's blurb

Kate Wyer’s Black Krim is an elegant study of alienation and reconnection—with a warm human heart beneath the Zen-like detachment of its style.

––Madison Smartt Bell

NaNoWriMo 2014

I was able to pull this off again. I love the challenge of writing 50,000 words in a month. It pushes everything else out of the way. I didn't play the drums at all, and didn't miss them except when I went to my weekly lesson and sucked. Oh well, my teacher is great and understanding.

This year I wrote about a homeless woman who had made one of those fenced in runoff basins you see in suburban developments her home. Her shelter, I guess. It's third person, which is a shift for me. Back in 2011, I wrote 50,000 words about a couple who became pregnant (intentionally) at the same time. I'm going to return to that soon and see what I do to revise it. I haven't read it since I finished it.