Extras
Fun extras for Kat fans
Kat Short Stories
"Duelling Magicks", the first Kat short story I wrote, is set between Kat Book 1 and Kat Book 2. I wrote it and posted it here on my website as a gift for my readers. I hope you enjoy it!
My second Kat short story (set just a few days after the end of Kat Book 1) is called "A Desperate Case for Magick", and it was originally published in the UK magazine Puffin Post, in the November 2011 issue. Now you can read it on my blog, too - I posted it there as a holiday gift for Kat readers!
Kat Jewelry!
One of the coolest things that's happened to me since writing Kat was being approached by a friend who wanted to make Kat-related jewelry. I leapt at the opportunity! Emily Mah is a fabulous jeweler as well as a personal friend. She worked with me to design pieces that matched my book perfectly.
The first piece she made was a necklace...and Kat-readers may recognize the book hanging from it as one of Mama's magic books! We worked together to try to come up with a design that worked for an 18th-century commonplace book, and I love it.
But the necklace isn't the only thing she's designed based on the book!
When Emily first approached me, she asked what my ideal piece of Kat jewelry would be, if I had no limits. I told her...and now she's made it! It's a beautiful, Kat-themed charm bracelet, with different charms for both of Kat's mother's magic books (the designs based on 18th-century commonplace books), a key to Mama's cabinet of secrets, a highwayman's mask, and the phrase Everything's better with highwaymen! engraved in lovely, Jane Austen-style script:
You can buy Emily's Kat book jewelry
Kat Book Trailers
I'm lucky enough to be related to a fabulous filmmaker, my brother David Burgis, who made not just one but two book trailers for Kat, Incorrigible!
Which one's your favorite?
I also got a lovely gift in my email inbox: Enrico from Italy made this lovely fan book trailer, which delighted me!
Let me know if you've made a fan trailer, and I'll put it up here, too!
Kat Art
If anyone would like to see their art featured here, just email me using my contact form. I can't read Kat fan-fiction, for legal reasons, but I would love to see any fan-art, whether or not you'd like me to post it on this page! (I'm very happy for people to write fan-fiction, too...I just can't read it myself or feature it here.)
Any Other Kat Extras?
Do you know of anything fun or cool that's been done for Kat, whether at home or at a school, library, or book club? Just let me know and I'll be happy to feature it on this page!