Cat Rector

@catrector.com

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She/Her | Bi | 🇨🇦 | Author of Horror and Dark Fantasy, often staring 30+ers who fk up consistently WIP: A liminal space haunted house novel with daddy issues 🌈✨

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A blackout text post that reveals a scarecrow in the background, and text that reads Arden leapt out of the way, narrowly missing being sliced in half by the blade. The scarecrow, the one from the field with the fucked-up eyes. Black mist streamed from its edges, fading into the air like smoke. And its face. Its face was a burlap sack with a drooling fang-filled maw and two black, void-like eyes. It had brought a friend. The scarecrow tossed the villagers across the stone. It followed after, picking up someone in a long, pretty fur coat and sticking their head in its mouth. Its teeth crunched down. They asked for it, she reminded herself. Everyone in the village had asked for it.
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The cover for the queer dark fantasy Norse myth retelling, The Goddess of Nothing At All by Cat Rector. A woman stands holding a wooden bowl, part of her face in shadow. The bowl is covered in glowing runes. The woman whose name is Sigyn, has long brown hair, with one section braided and running over her shoulder. Her skin is light brown. A long gray fur sits on her shoulders, accenting a long sleeved old Norse style dress. The dress is a dark green with silver embroidery around the collar and brown accents in a beaded necklace and belt. Behind her is a snowy landscape and the sky is filled with the northern lights. The art is by Grace Zhu. The first three chapters are available for free at Catrector.com.
The cover of Learning to Bleed by Cat Rector, the sequel to Coal Gets In Your Veins. The cover is in the style of a classical painting, with a blush-grey background. In the foreground are two characters locked in a dipping embrace. Spencer, a pale man in a dark blue turtleneck sweater and jeans, with blonde bed-head hair, is holding up another character as she loses control and seems to be falling. His expression is lost and loving as he looks down at her. Laurel is leaning back in his arms, her long brown hair in waves over her back, her face up to the sky as her expression of uncontrolled rage stares upward. Her eyes are red and her mouth is wide open, showing her vampire fangs. A pool of blood soaks into the shoulder of Spencer’s sweater, coming from Laurel’s hand as it hangs above his shoulder. Laurel wears a tank top and red and black plaid. A red mist obscures their legs, making room for the title and author text. The cover artist is Scherville.
Ed stepped into my path, his lips rimmed in soot. One of us, yes, but cooperation mitigated pain. If we didn’t tear each other down, how would the beast feed? “Don’t,” he said. “Just go home, Laurel. Greg only wanted you to stop your nonsense with this guy you’ve been running around with. It doesn’t have to end like this.” “End like what, Ed?” I took his jaw between my fingers. “Like you finally staying on your side of the fence? Like you gossiping every fucking thing to the neighbours except what my husband was doing to me all those years? Watching Greg through the kitchen windows for a decade, doing what he did, and saying nothing, Ed?” Good girl, Laurel. Show him an ending he deserves. I squeezed his jaw until it cracked under my hand. The scream was delicious. It ran a chill down my spine until I was shivering with glee. The black on his lips oozed from his mouth, making its way to my hand. It was mine. A little more of my birthright, seeping its way under my skin. Becoming part of me. I let him drop. Let him scream and squeal on the ground. Not everyone ran, but most did. Billy, a friend of a cousin I’d once done a repair for, lifted his shotgun from a few metres away and fired a round. It hit me in the shoulder, rocking me back. Static buzzed in my ear. When I looked down, black and red were spilling out of the new hole in my skin. That fucker. Kill him, Laurel. Spill his blood like he spilt yours. Feed the earth his pain. I want to feast. The voice was right. So right.
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The cover of Learning to Bleed by Cat Rector, the sequel to Coal Gets In Your Veins. The cover is in the style of a classical painting, with a blush-grey background. In the foreground are two characters locked in a dipping embrace. Spencer, a pale man in a dark blue turtleneck sweater and jeans, with blonde bed-head hair, is holding up another character as she loses control and seems to be falling. His expression is lost and loving as he looks down at her. Laurel is leaning back in his arms, her long brown hair in waves over her back, her face up to the sky as her expression of uncontrolled rage stares upward. Her eyes are red and her mouth is wide open, showing her vampire fangs. A pool of blood soaks into the shoulder of Spencer’s sweater, coming from Laurel’s hand as it hangs above his shoulder. Laurel wears a tank top and red and black plaid. A red mist obscures their legs, making room for the title and author text. The cover artist is Scherville.
The cover of Learning to Bleed by Cat Rector, the sequel to Coal Gets In Your Veins. The cover is in the style of a classical painting, with a blush-grey background. In the foreground are two characters locked in a dipping embrace. Spencer, a pale man in a dark blue turtleneck sweater and jeans, with blonde bed-head hair, is holding up another character as she loses control and seems to be falling. His expression is lost and loving as he looks down at her. Laurel is leaning back in his arms, her long brown hair in waves over her back, her face up to the sky as her expression of uncontrolled rage stares upward. Her eyes are red and her mouth is wide open, showing her vampire fangs. A pool of blood soaks into the shoulder of Spencer’s sweater, coming from Laurel’s hand as it hangs above his shoulder. Laurel wears a tank top and red and black plaid. A red mist obscures their legs, making room for the title and author text. The cover artist is Scherville.
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A picture of the cover art for Coal Gets In Your Veins by Cat Rector, art by Scherville. Laurel is on the top of the frame, Spencer on the bottom. Laurel looks down at Spencer and has long brown hair, white skin, and is dressed in black overalls and a green t-shirt. Spencer looks up at Laurel and has wavy blonde hair, red eyes, and white skin, and is dressed in a white blouse with silver chains draping across the open cut of the blouse. The text beside the cover art is meant to sound panicked and unconvincing, and reads as follows: Learning to Bleed. Aka they're both just fine, nothing bad has ever happened to them and nothing ever will, I don't know why you're so worried, just because she's now deeply traumatized and he's responsible for her choices surely won't strain anything or cause any tension. It's a vampire book, all bites are good bites, right? Like what even is there to worry about, it's not like he's going to get in his head about all this responsibility and how he's maybe not prepared for what he's taken on and it's not like she would be hard to manage now or completely dreading every single night and what she might do and how much blood is on her hands. The weight of choices can't be that heavy and the other people around would surely help them, right? Except how they've left all the people who care about them behind and now they're off in a city where they don't have a lot of help and Laurel is bombarded with new places and things and–
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A sneak peek of the cover of Learning to Bleed featuring Spencer looking down at something, someone's hand over his shoulder
A pinprick of light drew my attention. I turned to look down the hill. In the dead of night, tiny glowing dots were rising out of the grass, one by one. Dozens and dozens. Little stars floating everywhere. A sea of fireflies. Spencer tipped his head against mine, watching with me. “It’s beautiful,” I whispered. “Thank you for this.” Spencer took another drink of the wine, shoved the cork in, and swallowed. “Anything for you.” His fingers found my shoulder, trailing his touch down my bare arm. Heat rose in my stomach. I turned to kiss him and he met me eagerly, his lips moving in long, deep caresses against mine. I ran my hand down his chest, the silk cool under my fingers. In return, his hand drifted from my waist, up to the side of my breast, his thumb testing the limits of what I would allow. My breath caught, and without giving myself time to back away, I moved to crawl on top of him. Spencer sat up to meet me, holding my hips in both hands. Kissing me like he couldn’t get enough of the taste. I suggestively licked along his lip and he met that suggestion with abandon, his tongue searching. On my knees, sitting on his lap, I felt his body reacting to mine. Stopping to breathe, I rested my forehead against his. Deliberating. “I want it all,” Spencer whispered into my mouth, stopping to nip at my bottom lip. “The decision is yours.” He pulled away, watching my eyes as his fingers walked slowly up my left thigh, threatening to creep up my dress. My mind couldn’t be trusted to let me have him, so I followed my body instead.
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The cover to the queer dark fantasy/horror vampire novel, Coal Gets In Your Veins by Cat Rector. Two characters lie on a dark, rocky background dotted by fireflies. The title of the book is in shape red font between them. On the bottom, Spencer looks up at Laurel, who looks down at him. Spencer is an effeminate man with pale skin and short, messy blonde hair and red eyes. He wears a white blouse with the chest open and a web of silver strands of jewellery spans across the opening. Laurel is a woman with long brown hair and brown eyes. She has white skin and wears a dark green t-shirt under black suspenders. The pinprick points of a vampire bite sit on her throat. The art is by scherville.
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The cover to the queer dark fantasy/horror vampire novel, Coal Gets In Your Veins by Cat Rector. Two characters lie on a dark, rocky background dotted by fireflies. The title of the book is in shape red font between them. On the bottom, Spencer looks up at Laurel, who looks down at him. Spencer is an effeminate man with pale skin and short, messy blonde hair and red eyes. He wears a white blouse with the chest open and a web of silver strands of jewellery spans across the opening. Laurel is a woman with long brown hair and brown eyes. She has white skin and wears a dark green t-shirt under black suspenders. The pinprick points of a vampire bite sit on her throat. The art is by scherville.
I gave her an incredulous look. What an absurd conversation to be having. “And what makes you think that person is me?” She shrugged. “I dunno. It’s just a feeling.” She waved a hand up and down, indicating my general presence. “You’re different from what’s on offer around here.” I laughed. “Was it the dancing that gave me away?” “That and your little jeans.” She reached out to poke a finger in the hole in the fabric on my hip. “If only there’d been people like you around when I was younger.” “How do you mean?” She leaned in conspiratorially. “Like knows like, and you’re not exactly subtle. I mean, I feel like you’re trying to be? But you’re not very good at it, ’cause there’s obviously something going on here—” She waved her hand at me. “—but you’re also definitely into Laurel, so the math says bi. I dunno. I suppose we’re all out here, hiding in plain sight. I used to think there was no one but me in this dinky place, but here we are. There aren’t supposed to be any queers around, but I’ve eaten a lot of local pussy.” I stifled a loud laugh. “Such a presumptuous and vulgar young lady,” I teased. Mary-Jo shrugged. “It’s nothing worse than what any of them would say.” She pointed at the men perched around the front door. “People just don’t like it when ladies don’t act pretty.”
The cover to the queer dark fantasy novel This Too Shall Burn by Cat Rector. The background is an autumn forest, in reds and oranges. A witch stands, staring at the reader. Arden is dressed in a long grey dress, embroidered with silver roses. Her hair is long and grey, despite being quite young. She stares intensely at us with grey eyes and full lips as she uses her hands to pull a misty piece of her soul out of her chest. The art is by Grace Zhu. The first three chapters are available for free at Catrector.com.
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The cover to the queer dark fantasy/horror vampire novel, Coal Gets In Your Veins by Cat Rector. Two characters lie on a dark, rocky background dotted by fireflies. The title of the book is in shape red font between them. On the bottom, Spencer looks up at Laurel, who looks down at him. Spencer is an effeminate man with pale skin and short, messy blonde hair and red eyes. He wears a white blouse with the chest open and a web of silver strands of jewellery spans across the opening. Laurel is a woman with long brown hair and brown eyes. She has white skin and wears a dark green t-shirt under black suspenders. The pinprick points of a vampire bite sit on her throat. The art is by scherville.
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An image with six square images of different media titled "If you like..." And the rest reads: The closeted grief of Summer Sons. The devoted, kill-for-you love of Spike. The gentle comfort of the Astarion hug. The rising up against abuse of A Dowry of Blood. The dark, vibrant setting of Old Gods of Appalachia. The righteous coming into one's power of Hungerstone.
An infographic about the book Coal Gets In Your Veins by Cat Rector. The cover sits in the middle and shows an effeminate male vampire with blonde hair and red eyes, as well as a woman with brown hair and dressed in black overalls and a greenish T-shirt. Around the book cover are a collection of images. In the top right is a bi pride flag next to an image of Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3. In the bottom right is the text “Evidence of Generational Trauma” next to a photo of the inside of a coal mine, and a tumblr post that reads: vampire says: My darling, my eternal flame, my heart’s joy taken human form… you simply must drink water, your blood tastes like shit. In the bottom left corner are three book covers. Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson, Peeps by Scott Westerfield, and The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause. And in the top left corner is a Nova Scotian flag cut into the shape of the province, an image of rural Nova Scotia, and the text “write what you know.”
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A chart on top of a northern lights painting. The flow chart has three options and is titled Which Queer Book Should You Choose? All books are by Cat Rector. On the left is The Goddess of Nothing At All. Its labels indicate it's a series about Norse Gods with a focus on long term relationships. It's about being in love with a trickster god but also it's about the end of everything aka Ragnarok. In the middle is the book This Too Shall Burn. It's a standalone about witches and has a focus on friendship. It also focuses around poor menstrual health, corrupt religion, and patriarchy. The book on the right is Coal Gets In Your Veins. It's a series about vampires and has a focus on lovers and found family. It features a lot of generational trauma, and overcoming grief and abuse.
A cover tease for Learning to Bleed. A painting of Spencer looking down at something, blood on his sweater and someone's hand looming above his shoulder. The text reads: The Summer I couldn't save her.
A painting of Laurel, a long haired brunette white cis woman with a green sweater and brown eyes. The text reads: The summer I bled black with the monster that lived in my veins