What I Write

I vividly remember when I first considered writing. I was less than five years old, galloping about our yard at the farm, probably pretending to lead a cavalry charge or round up a stampede. On one of the few unbroken limestone slabs that made up our sidewalk, I paused and turned to face the east, where the yard sloped into a grove of evergreens that led to our garden and the highway. I focused on something far beyond the highway, past the hay meadow and the locust-forested pasture. “Maybe I should write books,” I thought. “Someone has to.” I pondered this momentous choice for a while. Then I decided that it would be more logical for people who could read to write books, and galloped off again. However, I took up writing, as many people do, in my teens. As the years passed and life in the form of marriage and children intervened, I tried repeatedly to give up writing, but it would not give me up.

With over twenty years working for a cabinet-level agency, I have observed politics from the inside, on both the personal and public level. Some of those observations have been threaded into my writing.

Those experiences, along with my curiosity about human motivation, weave the tapestry that has become More Than a Point of Honor, my first published novel, available at http://www.lulu.com/content/1254170. Honor is a novel of personal and political suspense, with a twist. When his wife dies in his arms during a terrorist attack, American diplomat Richard Matthews walks away from diplomacy vowing to bring to justice the man responsible for her death. His quest pits him against the man in charge of CIA field operations, Robert Adler. The stakes rise as Richard gets closer to finding a witness who will testify, and Adler plants rookie Terra McIntyre to serve as Richard’s assistant. But like black market nitroglycerin, Terra is a volatile unknown quantity. To which man will Terra prove most dangerous? Or is she a hazard to both of them?

Honor is just the first novel to appear; watch for The Judas Seat, its sequel. I’m plotting the next in the series, as well as working on a couple of other novels with different characters, locales and situations. Also on here, I'll post blogs that reflect my observations on life. I'm a divorced parent, a Christian, and deeply interested in the way the world works. My fiancé recently passed away, and coming to terms with losing him has taken me into some deep places. Check out my website (www.myspace.com/katherinepritchett) for the most up to date information about my projects.

Thank you for reading my work. God willing, we’ll have lots more stories to share.