about cat
Cat Marsters lives in a fairytale cottage with a Prince Charming husband who helpfully brings her delicious chocolate treats while she writes, and is more than happy to inspire a steamy love scene at a moment’s notice. In fact, he walks around half-naked for this very purpose.
And then she wakes up.
In
actual fact Cat lives in a village in south east England, which, while
not quite a fairytale setting, is nonetheless very pretty and was mentioned
in the Domesday Book of 1087. She shares a house with only slightly
batty parents who hardly ever tell her to get a real job, and a musician
brother who knows there's no chance she'll ever get one if he doesn't.
Life is kept from being boring by the often hilarious antics of a cat
who is her baby in all but the biological sense, and a puppy who is
obsessed with feet. Cat rarely, if ever, stops talking about her furbabies,
but in the interests of keeping her readers awake, tries to confine
it to her blog.
Cat has been writing all her life, but in order to keep herself rich in shoes and chocolate, she's also worked as an airline check-in agent, video rental clerk, stationery shop assistant, and laboratory technician. She's still aiming for the fairytale cottage, and asks all potential Prince Charmings to apply in writing with pictures of themselves and their Aston Martins.
Cat also writes madcap spy fantasies. . . er, chick-lit mysteries, under the name Kate Johnson.
Cat has been interviewed a time or two about the general fabulousness of her life. To read these interviews, and articles by Cat, please go to the Extras page.
Other stuff that makes Cat fabulous:
Cat's first full-length novel, Almost Human, won the 2006 Passionate Plume award for erotic romance. Almost Human was also awarded Best Book of the Year by RRT Erotic in the Fantasy category, while Never Leave Me picked up the Novella category award.
Cat is a member of Passionate Ink, the RWA's first Erotica chapter, sponsors of the Passionate Plume. She's also the lucky holder of the WisRWA 2005 Silver Quill Award in the Erotica category (the plaque has pride of place on her wall, next to the James Marsters Calendar). Also in the Erotica field she won second place in COFW's Ignite the Flame and scored highly in JERR's Passionate Pen contest. In 2006/7 she judged the Passionate Ink chapter contest for unpublished writers, Stroke of Midnight.
Before becoming published, Cat scored in the top quarter of the RWA's Golden Heart contest in 2005. She's also taken third place in MRW's Reveal Your Inner Vixen contest and OKRWA's Finally a Bride contest, as well as semi-finalling in the 2004 HODRW Molly contest, finalling in 2005, and being a finalist for their Unsinkable Heroine award too. She also won a prize from the David St John Thomas Charitable Trust for a short story in the Business category.
Cat has also won (jointly with her friend Amelia Elias) the Purple Prose Parody for a very silly homage to Sherrilyn Kenyon and Helen Fielding. The parody, entitled Widget Bones's Diary, appeared in the Dark Hunter Companion.
Phew! All that, and still has time to tinker around making silly images for her website.
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