Katherine Kurtz

Unfortunately due to personal committments, Katherine Kurtz will not be able to attend this year's convention. However we hope to see her at another P-Con.

KATHERINE KURTZ was born in Coral Gables, Florida in October 1944, during a hurricane, which she has always taken as a good omen. She studied at the University of Miami, where she got a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry, and continued her studies by getting an M.A. in medieval English history at UCLA, achieved whilst simultaneously writing her first two novels and working as an instructional designer for the Los Angeles Police Academy.

Besides writing, Katherine is an editor of anthologies, a professionally trained hypnotist, a virtuoso at counted cross-stitch, and an avowed cat person. She is also a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), where she goes under the name of Countess Bevan Frazier of Sterling.

In 1983, Katherine married her husband Scott MacMillan, and they both moved to Ireland in 1986 where they, along with four cats and a dog, live in County Wicklow, Ireland, in a castle named Holybrooke Hall, which comes complete with a Victorian Orangery and a number of ghosts, who seem to approve of the restoration work being done to the house by Katherine and Scott.

Katherine says that her first novel, Deryni Rising, was based on a " very vivid dream" she had two days before her twentieth birthday. Since then, she has written fifteen Deryni books, all of which remain in print. There are a number more in the offing, with the sixteenth, King Kelson’s Bride, being the most immanent. She adds "My latest, In the King's Service, came out in November 2003 in hardcover from Ace, and they will be releasing a hardcover edition of Deryni Rising in July 2004 (by when I must have the second in the ITKS trilogy finished)."

Besides the Deryni books, Katherine has written a number of other books, including, with Deborah Turner Harris, a series of occult detective thrillers set in modern Scotland. She continues to write, and we are delighted she can take time out of her busy schedule to come to the convention.

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Katherine's Picture taken at P-Con I and is courtesy Mike Mc Phail

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