I'm Happy Like That: how Mat and Savanna Shaw got me through lockdown and beyond
We all explored new avenues in the first coronavirus lockdown in Spring 2020. Some of us took up writing, some cross-stitch, some...
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Katherine's Corner
This is the space in which I semi-regularly spout off about whatever springs to mind. If you want to know anything at all about how my mind works, I recommend you check out my musings!
I am now open to guest blogs! If you have a blog post inside you but don't want the commitment of a full-time blog, send it my way and I might post it on here! Find out more here.
Katherine Blakeman
Nov 15, 20224 min read
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder, and why did I write about it?
One of the first writing tips most people hear is ‘write what you know’. But I’ve never been very good at sticking to that. Perhaps it’s...
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Katherine Blakeman
Nov 7, 20225 min read
I am titanium: FIVE THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT SCOLIOSIS
Some of you might remember that I wrote, a few months ago, about my experiences becoming bionic. Okay, that may be romanticising it a...
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Katherine Blakeman
Oct 25, 20226 min read
Review: ABBA Voyage has one hell of an ABBAsphere
It’s no surprise that this concert is taking the world by storm. After all, ABBA told countless people, countless times, that they’d...
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Katherine Blakeman
Oct 18, 20224 min read
An Interview with Chloe Keto
Welcome to the first in what hopefully will become a series of interviews with some of my favourite authors! And who better to start with...
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Katherine Blakeman
Sep 14, 20223 min read
I didn’t realise it was possible to have impostor syndrome about a diagnosis
This may sound like an abstract concept, so bear with me. If you’ve been following me for a while, you may recall that I posted a few...
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Katherine Blakeman
Aug 15, 20225 min read
My version of living dangerously is going out without my epi-pens.
Picture, if you will, a restaurant. It’s a normal day – diners are dining, waiting staff are waiting, and everyone’s having a grand old...
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Katherine Blakeman
Aug 1, 20223 min read
Whoops, I accidentally wrote a novel...
So most of you know me as the author of The Silent Chapter, a chunky 120,000-word tome split into eight substantial chapters (none of...
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Katherine Blakeman
Jul 13, 20223 min read
The big question... why do I write?
One that a lot of writers ask themselves regularly. Would you judge me if I said I ask it every day? Okay, maybe not every day, but when...
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Katherine Blakeman
Jul 1, 20224 min read
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?! Life without a diagnosis.
Deep breath. Writing this is probably going to make me upset. I struggle to say that I have a chronic illness, because although for...
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Katherine Blakeman
Jun 12, 20225 min read
My spine curved. It's called scoliosis. So I had surgery to straighten it out.
June is probably my favourite month of the year. Not because it’s my birthday month – that’s July – or because it’s the start of summer,...
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Katherine Blakeman
Jun 3, 20224 min read
I wrote a book in my teens. Why is everyone so surprised?
I know, I know. Writing a book isn’t quite the activity of which the average teen partakes. Believe me – in seven years of being at...
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Katherine Blakeman
May 24, 20225 min read
Why self-publishing is the hardest AND most rewarding thing ever
I made the decision to self-publish my book after several months of frustration with querying agents. Agent after agent either rejected...
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Katherine Blakeman
May 18, 20223 min read
I went on holiday at the weekend, and I used a mobility aid
And it was, without a doubt, one of the most mortifying experiences of my life. It shouldn’t have been. Let me just preface this by...
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Katherine Blakeman
May 12, 20222 min read
My Second Official Blog Post. It's About Food.
The title for this one came to me a couple of days ago, on the train on the way back from a literary convention. I thought, “Brilliant!...
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Katherine Blakeman
May 5, 20222 min read
I Am Starting A Blog
...Again. I am starting a blog. Again. It's not like I haven't had one before. Or indeed two. In 2019, I contributed to a new blog for...
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