Welcome, readers! I'm a zoologist by education and a writer by inclination. I won the first writing contest I entered, in third grade in England, received a gift certificate to the village bookstore, and bought three novels by my favorite author of the moment: Enid Blyton. I'm an admitted animal-lover and bookaholic, and share my home with two bossy felines: Bertie and Eowin, who are my harshest critics, and over 7,000 books. I imagine my epitaph as: “Felled while editing, trapped beneath a literary avalanche. She died happy and well-read."
Six years ago, I took a sabbatical from my zoological work and sat down to write, not the scientific papers for which I was noted, but the fascinating world of fiction. But in all my works, my background surfaces in the characters of animals with distinct personalities who play crucial roles in the story.
My stories have won many RWA chapter contests, and I've now turned my talents toward editing and judging as well as writing. I'm always surprised by what my characters say and do, and the unexpected plot twists and turns.
Cat Lindler currently lives in Southwest Texas.
Cat Lindler's first romance novel, Kiss of a Traitor, a Revolutionary War romance, won many Romance Writers of America contests. Kiss of a Traitor, which follows the battles of the Southern Campaign during 1780, was released by Medallion Press on January 1, 2009 and has received stellar reviews.
Starlight &Promises, Cat's second historical romance, is set in the Victorian Age in Tasmania and involves the search for a living saber-toothed tiger. Medallion Press will release Starlight and Promises on April 1, 2010.
Cat is currently working on her seventh historical romance, Bound by Darkness, a story about a blind artist set in the Lake District of England in 1810.
Other releases will be announced.
