Kate Lord Brown
| October 2011 | Kate's short story 'Venus Night and Day' receives a commendation in the Manchester Fiction Prize 2011, selected from 2000 entries |
| September 2011 | 'The Beauty Chorus' is selected for discussion by the Ain Khaled Book Club |
| August 2011 | Kate is completing her second novel for Corvus Atlantic, 'The Perfume Garden' |
| July 2011 | Reviews for The Beauty Chorus continue, with The Spectator saying: 'the book soars as if it has a couple of Merlins strapped to the cover.' More here |
| June 2011 | The Beauty Chorus is launched with a reading at Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar, and Kate takes part in the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Summer Writing Institute, where she is interviewed on Cover to Cover, QF Radio. Kate takes part in the MMU/Arvon summer school at Moniack Mhor |
| May 2011 | Kate is interviewed by BBC Radio stations across the UK, and appears with an ATA veteran on ITV London Tonight In a 40 stop virtual book tour, Kate is interviewed and guest blogs on sites from America, Australia, the UK and Canada. |
| April 2011 | 1st April 'The Beauty Chorus' is published in the UK and Commonwealth. The novel is launched at One Tree Books, Independent Bookseller of the Year |
| March 2011 | Kate launches 'Ask Evie' A short story 'Liberty' is selected for publication by the Carnegie Mellon/Qatar Foundation literary journal |
| February 2011 | 'The Beauty Chorus' will be published in Canada by McArthur & Company and appear as a W F Howes audio book. |
| January 2011 | WKDN is being read in 150 countries Kate is working on her new novel |
| December 2010 | Corvus films Kate at Duxford Imperial War Museum |
| November 2010 | Kate becomes a member of the Society of Authors, and reads new work at Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation. |
| October 2010 | Kate is awarded membership of the Romantic Novelists' Association |
| September 2010 | WKDN is being read in 140 countries |
| July 2010 | 'Company' on www.shortbreadstories.co.uk has been recorded as an audio story by actor Paul Jerricho |
| April 2010 | Kate's debut novel 'The Beauty Chorus' is acquired by Corvus, and announced at The London Book Fair |
| October 2009 | Kate is a finalist in the ITV People's Author competition 2009 |
| September 2009 | WKDN being read in 120 countries. Awarded the '100 Best Blogs' award by the Daily Reviewer |
| August 2009 | Kate joins the MA programme in Creative Writing at MMU |
| July 2009 | 'Don't Tweet Back in Anger' published The Bookseller |
| June 2009 | What Kate Did Next a workbook for writers published by Blurb in aid of War Child. WKDN being read in 100 countries. |
| May 2009 | New interview in TPS 'Vanity Fair' published in The Bookseller |
| April 2009 | A new story 'The Scattering of Stars' added to Shortbread, receives **** rating. New interview with Kate by the creativity site Whohub What Kate Did Next receives two awards. The blog is now being read in ninety countries. |
| March 2009 | Kate's work is featured on Shortbread, a new site for original short fiction. You can read several stories online including 'Company', previously published by Women's Ink London. The Bookseller features KLB piece about debut authors 'The Next Big Thing'. |
| February 2009 | WKDN featured atThe Word Festival talk on blogging. Interview with KLB in Writers' News |
| January 2009 | Soundart Radio asked Kate to write and record an original piece about the theme of light. 'Light Year' was featured in their 'First Spark' festival |
| December 2008 | Kate founded 'Burning Lines' an online creative writing project. A team of international writers used Blogger to create an original work of fiction, available to read online at 'Burning Archives' |
| November 2008 | Alltop have selected WKDN as a 5***** site. The blog is being read in over 60 countries, including all 51 US States. 'One Book' has published Kate's selection - Gaston Bachelard's 'Poetics of Space.' Kate is a NaNoWriMo Winner 2008 - a global novel writing project. |
| October 2008 | Red Room have included Kate's work in their online community:
Red Room (redroom.com) is the online home of many of the world's greatest writers. It's a place for the literary community to promote their work, express themselves, and connect with their favorite authors. |
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September 2008 |
Kate is delighted to announce she is now working with a wonderful new agent, Sheila Crowley, at Curtis Brown. Sheila has an amazing list of authors including Tasmina Perry, Jojo Moyes and Santa Montefiore and it is fabulous to be working with her. |
| August 2008 | Since launching this summer, the daily column 'What Kate Did Next' is being read in 40 countries by thousands of visitors. |
| July 2008 | 'Paris Mai 68' published in Blueprint's July edition |