Kate Wilhelm

Kate says

admin — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:32:01 +0000

People have asked about my name, if I’m related to one or more other Wilhelms here in Oregon. I’m not. My maiden name was Meredith and I started writing when I was married to Joseph Wilhelm. No one advised me to use my maiden name as my pen name and I didn’t think of it at the time. So, no relation to other Wilhelms. Since I had been published using the Wilhelm name, I was advised to stick with it. Later, thinking about it, I came to realize that bit of advice was probably wrong. At that point in my career a name change would have meant very little. I might add that in my many years of teaching writing, I always advised young women to use their maiden names. No one knows what changes the future will bring to any of us, but the name one is born with remains intact.

Kate

Big Changes Coming Soon! Stay Tuned!

admin — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:40:46 +0000

We’re putting the finishing touches on our new website and will announce its launch in the coming weeks. One of the main features is the ability to buy ebooks of Kate’s previously published works, some of which are quite difficult to find. We will release Kate’s new works on the site, too, also in ebook formats.
Stay connected by going to Kate’s new FaceBook page. In FaceBook search “Kate Wilhelm” and “like” the page and post comments!

October 23

admin — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:25:31 +0000

I’m surfacing from a deep sea of concentration, trying to finish up a new Barbara Holloway novel. I’m grateful to all of you for your posts over the past weeks. I’m also sorry that I couldn’t bring to this site the various posts that accumulated in a previous website. To get to some of the questions raised here: Heaven is High was set in about 1982. I wrote it recently but it was on my mind for a long time and I finally yielded to the impulse to fill in that blank, how Barbara met Martin and Binnie and why the enduring friendship developed. It also amused me to think that my readers will know something that Frank will never know. It was strange to write of a time before cellphones and modern computers. Such a short time ago and such big changes. I also wanted to write about Belize before it became a destination point for diving and such.

Frank’s cats are Maine coon cats, golden, and big. Twenty pounds or a little more. Barbara gave them to him when they were tiny gold puff balls and they instantly dismantled his Christmas tree, hence their names, Thing One and Thing Two. I had a cat like them once, big, beautiful, and unfortunately brainless. Frank’s cats are geniuses in comparison.

Someone asked about my work in ebook format, and I’ll have news about that in the coming weeks. I have a mountain of work out of print, no longer available except in libraries, and I intend to correct that situation. More about it later.

Also, there will be a new Charlie and Constance in the not too distant future. I love coming back to them from time to time and will never really abandon them.

Back to what I think is the final chapter of the final draft of the new Holloway novel. Thank you all for coming and for your comments. As we used to say, be seeing you.

Kate