Welcome to the website of the Award Winning Authors Kathy Clark
& Bob Kat

They tell writers to never switch genres because you'll lose you fans and readers and that is probably true.  I've been working hard for about 9 months now building the bridge from my romance novels to the women's fiction to my screenplays and now to both a suspense and a young adult time travel mystery.  The suspense is After Midnight and is book #1 of the Denver After Dark suspense book series. The time travel is OMG and is book #1 of the CUL8R Time Travel Mystery Series I'm writing with my husband Bob.

In my several decades of fiction books and screenplays I've written romance novels and romance books beyond the point where I could conceive of another way to explain erections and hard nipples.

Don't get me wrong, writing a romance novel or a romance book was a lot of fun.  And I supported romance writers nationally and romance writers in Colorado.  I was a board member of the Romance Writers of America and held office locally at the Colorado Romance Writer organization.  I was all about romance, romance writers and romance novels and romance books. Nobody does romance better. 

Then I switched to women's fiction.   Even stronger women roles than in my romance novels but with women's fiction the goal wasn't the sex.  The goal was the success of the woman in the story.  Strong women roles are what set my women's fiction books apart.  The women were never a bitch but the man knew he had met his match in my women's fiction books.  And in the women's fiction books I got to try and win awards for writing a wonderful three part series.  The writing of a women's fiction book series was so much fun my two current projects are both series.  And my women's fiction characters get own businesses, railroads and deal in high finance all with a sprinkling of sex in between the profit and loss statements and government reports and war stories.  Women's fiction was what got me interested in screenplays.  Another media yes.  But more character and plot development, more awards only this time really cool film festival awards.  Getting to write for Shirley MacLaine or providing notes for a Mel Gibson script.  Oh those were the days.  But the chances of regularly getting scripts through to the start of principal photography were few and far between.

So I thought about writing another  romance novel or maybe another woman's fiction and then it hit me.   Why not roll everything I've learned in 23 romance and women's fiction books and nearly 20 screenplays into adult suspense and young adult time travel. 

Writing an adult suspense fiction book series was something I could prepare for well.  Police citizen academies and fire department citizen academies and ride Shirley MacLean at all hours of the day and night helped me understand all sides of what  cop, fireman and paramedic face every day.  

The really interesting times were when the cops, fireman and paramedics got together to compare notes and to work together as well.  I imagined what it would be like if they all were in the same family.  I spent several years thinking about the possible suspense book series that might be possible.  
I plotted several books with the cop in the lead, then the fireman in the lead and then the paramedic in the lead.  What a really cool suspense book series this will make.  But hat have three different suspense book series?

My idea was validated with the first Blue Bloods episode in September, 2010.  By the time Hollywood figured it out I had one hell of a better idea.  What a suspense book series it would be with a cop, a fireman and paramedic.  Anyone by itself would make a great suspense book series just like on TV in 2010.  In October, 2012, the Denver After Dark suspense book series concept came to life [and death actually] was inaugurated with After Midnight.  The cop became the hero. The suspense book series starts with a Denver Police ride along that went terribly wrong.  In the summer of 2013,  the suspense book series will be joined by the fireman.  Suspense book series.  Love the way it sounds.  After midnight has received over 4 stars ratings on average thus far and was accepted in both the Amazon Breakthrough Awards and Colorado Book Awards for 2013.  This is good stuff.  It is a good suspense book series.

Finally, there is the CUL8R time travel mystery series and the details of that mystery book series is at http://www.cul8rseries.com  The first book is OMG and the second book is BRB.  The time travel book series has some cool titles and even cooler teens as lead characters.  This first book in the time travel mystery series has gotten all 5 start ratings so far!

There is one more book Bob and I completed in 2012.  Life's What Happens takes place mainly in 1969 to mid 1970 at Kent State University.  Can you say main stream fiction? This is main stream fiction.  And John Lennon's words really sum up what this main stream book is all about.  The reviews have averaged a little better than 4 stars and the words offered by the readers are even better.