K.T. Lawrence
YA/Adult Horror and Fantasy Author
K.T. Lawrence favors the frightening and the fantastical in her fiction. Born on an island in Florida, she lived near beaches and swamps before settling in the piedmont of north Georgia. K.T. majored in biology and minored in English at the University of Florida, and she currently manages a neuroscience lab at an R1 university. Natural, scientific, and queer (both gay and bizarre) themes often find their way into her books.
About
K.T. Lawrence finished writing her first book at fourteen and began pursuing publication in her twenties. Now she’s thirty, wordy, and striving (to make good art). A Florida native who grew up on an island surrounded by nature, she majored in biology at the University of Florida and minored in English. Though she still works in bio as her day job, she's also passionate about making a second career for herself as an author.Outside of work, K.T. balances her jock hobbies (hiking, climbing, and watching football/hockey) with her nerd hobbies (reading, gaming, and knowing way too much about bugs). She enjoys working on home improvement projects with her husband, poodle, cats, and crested gecko, though she wishes the animals would pitch in more. Her favorite protagonists to write are bi like her. K.T. lives in a suburb of Atlanta.Though fantasy is her first love, K.T. is primarily a writer of horror, and she never eschews a strong romantic subplot and speculative elements. She is represented by Chelsea Hensley of Mad Woman Literary Agency.
Books
SKIN: An Anthology of Dark Fiction
A collection of twenty-five skin-themed stories from some of the best up-and-coming authors of horror. You can buy it here!“Carrion Birds” is a dark sci-fi tale of self-discovery, first love, and the rejection of a “right” way to be queer. Antoinette wants to survive the final day of Scout Class and make it to First Flight, where the bird of her soul will be borne to the world and she will finally meet the girl she’s been text-chatting with for years. Before she can fly, she must come to terms with herself: whether she will become the raptor she’s been trained to be, the dismal crow her classmates think she is, or something else entirely.
THE MARCH OF RORY BOWMAN, Adult Horror/Romcom
THE MARCH OF RORY BOWMAN is an contemporary horror novel with romcom elements that combines the funny, entomological stylings of A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher to the small-town murder mystery of Jackal by Erin E. Adams and the musician-led romance of Second Chance Duet by Ana Holguin. Rory Bowman wants college to be over, because she’s sick of playing second baton to local prodigy Link Withers and her conducting grad school dreams are just around the corner. When band members get murdered, however, and a mysterious ant queen starts sending Rory visions about how to solve the case, the two rival drum majors may have to work together to expose old mysteries haunting Fairside, North Carolina.
HERE THEY ARE VYING, YA Historical Horror/Romance
HERE THEY ARE VYING is an upper YA horror novel that combines the nature-based, speculative-bent Hazelthorn by CG Drews and the monstrous and religious overtones of Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. Glenn Erskine has served the Bishop family his whole life, following them from their London mansion to the dreary swamps of south Georgia. What the Bishops didn’t count on was the new environment being hard on their teenage son Henley’s asthma, leaving him bereft and mostly bedridden. When Henley suffers a grave attack and the witch Laria appears, offering to take Glenn to the Heart of the Swamp to find a treatment for Henley, Glenn jumps at the opportunity to save not just his young master, but his dear friend. However, the God whispering in his ear promises not a treatment, but a true cure. He’ll just have to sacrifice the Heart to get it.
CREEPER, CREEPER, YA Horror
CREEPER, CREEPER is an upper YA horror novel with a sapphic subplot and fantasy elements that will appeal to fans of They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran and The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones. Eighteen-year-old apothecary Althea joins a crew cutting paths through a deadly forest, where she hopes to find her missing mother in an isolated town. Instead, she finds camaraderie with the crew—and the forest that wants to kill them.
THE LONE LAW, Adult Fantasy/Western
THE LONE LAW is an adult fantasy novel with classic western vibes that will appeal to fans of Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey and Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn books. Marley Roose wants the man who murdered her family to pay. However, that man is Lord Dalton Heanandorf, the most powerful landowner in Hiherella, who's in-league with the church she adores.Since the church is the only entity with the power to challenge him, the only way forward she can see is to work within it and become powerful enough to bring him to heel. But when rebellion comes to her doorstep, Marley must grapple with what she'd rather have: broad change in the country she loves, or the personal vengeance she's been working toward for a decade.
TATE’S HELL, Adult Horror/Romance
TATE’S HELL is a sapphic adult horror novel that takes the scientific eco-horror of T. Kingfisher's Wolf Worm and combines it with an exploration of generational trauma like Kailee Pedersen’s Sacrificial Animals. Gwen Hagel joins a state forest rehabilitation team in to help restore land wrecked by the logging industry, but the project is sabotaged from the start by a supervisor who cares more about selling timber than restoring the oddly fly-inundated habitat. If that wasn't hard enough, diseased animals appear on Gwen's property, forcing their way into her new home. A call to animal control brings Caroline Ly, and Gwen finds a kindred spirit in the woman who gave up her dream job to come take care of her sick father. Arnold Ly insists he can’t leave the house or else something terrible will befall Florida’s Forgotten Coast, though he’s festering with flies, like the forest Gwen cares for. When Caroline’s father dies and the horrors he restrained are unleashed, Gwen and Caroline stand in the way of a never-seen-before ecological nightmare. They'll have to determine what they’re willing to sacrifice for the ability to heal.
Contact Me
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