Kat Kinney

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feature authors

fantasy | suspense

Kat Kinney

Anna Applegate Ronald Niezen

Kat kinney

Author Kat Kinney lives with her family and two extremely pampered guinea pigs who do not like werewolves, vampires, or falcons and wonder why their human insists on writing about things that like to eat them.

Uncaged welcomes Kat Kinney

Welcome to Uncaged! You have two series out now, the Texas Shifters and the Dyrwolf series. Can you tell readers more about these two series?

Hi and thank you so much for having me! Dyrwolf is a young adult fantasy series about a young girl (Lea Wylder) caught between the human and wolf-shifter world. The two have been at war for decades and she’s been raised to believe the wolves are completely evil, that they’ve enslaved her kind, but over the course of the novel as she comes to the aid of an injured wolfshifter, she comes to find there are nuances to the truth. I also wrote this book because I really wanted to pen a novel with a character with a severe chronic pain condition. Lea has severe chronic migraines like I do and this impacts her throughout Dyrwolf and its sequel.

Texas Shifters is my new adult paranormal romance series. It’s set in a modern-day fiction town just outside of Austin that I have overrun with werewolves and vampires. Humans just discovered vamps and shifters exist a few years ago in this world and they’re still getting used to the idea. My family of seven brothers may have lots of drama but they’re fiercely loyal and lots of fun.

In April, you have a first book in a new series coming out, Light My Pyre which is up for preorder. Can you tell us more about this series?

Light My Pyre has been lots of fun to write! I am switching gears with this one a little and it will be a paranormal romance/cozy mystery mashup set in in a fictional Colorado town outside of Denver. My first book with feature a fae firefighter and a dragon shifter and each book will have different supernaturals and a new couple. I really love holidays and cozy seasonal books, so each book in this series will have all the best things about each season. Light My Pyre kicks things off with autumn. Think hearty soups, a town carnival, fire pits and marshmallow roasting. Plus there’s a rather adorable Irish wolfhound named Daisy. (Okay, she isn’t seasonal, but she’s been really fun to write!)

What is the most difficult scene for you to write? What is the easiest?

Probably battle scenes are the hardest for me to write because I confess I have not had as much experience with sword fighting as some other things where I can more easily draw from in my lived experience. But I try to get better with every book I write.