Kate MacLeod

@katemacleodwrites.com

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Writer of science fiction and fantasy. Also writes fantasy mystery under the name Cate Martin.

A picture of two dogs cuddling in blankets. One is a black and white rat terrier adult dog (Mugen), and the other is a teeny tiny black rat terrier chihuahua puppy (Radical Edward). His face is the most precious thing in the world.
A photograph of a black rat terrier chihuahua looking out the window beside the front door, watching anxiously for someone to come home.
Finished digital art sketch of Mansai Nomura as Abe no Seimei. He is looking serious, dressed in his onmyoji robes with tall onmyoji hat. His hand is extended in a gesture that says he's about to unleash a little of his considerable power. The drawing was done in blacks, whites, and grays, but a color filter has been added to make it look like an old photograph.
Photo of the screen of my Wacom tablet showing a side by side of a photo of Mansai Nomura playing Abe No Seimei in the movie Onmyoji and my attempt to sketch him using a grid for guidelines. It is, as is my usual experience with sketching, not going great. But rendering always helps.
Fan-made redraw of a couple of panels from FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST. In the first panel, two goons are pointing and exclaiming "Hey!! W're the ones asking questions around here! Who the hell are you!?" In the center panel, Izumi with power bursting all around her points at her own chest and declares, "I'm a housewife!!!!". Three others look on in the final panel with varying emotions: dumbfounded, aghast, and mildly impressed.
Two panels from the manga DAEMONS OF THE SHADOW REALM by Hiromu Arakawa. In the first panel on the right, an older out-of-shape woman opens her housecoat to reveal an array of kitchen knives. She is thinking "Fine! Not like I have a choice..." and the main character Yuru is thinking "Whoa! Hidden kitchen knives?!" In the second panel on the left, she says in heavy, bolded letters "I'll clean up here quick, and then I'm goin' home!! I got a hubby to cook dinner for!!" as she brandishes one of her blades. Yuru and his guardian Dera are both wide-eyed in amazement as Dera is thinking "Housewives are scary..."
Promotional photo for the 90s one season only tv show Relativity. Kimberly Williams is sitting on David Conrad’s lap with her arms around him and her forehead touching his. But frankly Adam Goldberg and Jane Adams were why I watched this show.
A black and white illustration of Rohan Kishibe as portrayed by Issei Takahashi. He is slouching back in an office chair, holding up the dip pen he draws manga with. And he is intensely cool.
Poseable doll of Rohan Kishibe flanked by Funko pops of George RR Martin, Stephen King with his corgi Molly the Thing of Evil, Guillermo Del Toro, and Edgar Allen Poe holding a skull.
Poseable doll of Rohan Kishibe from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. He is holding a dip pen and is displaying a finished page of a manga. Beside him is his stand.
A very nervous pit bull is sitting awkwardly in a bay window. She's not sure about any of this.
Screen cap from the game Baldur's Gate 3. Rescued hostage Thindo Vintevur is running for the submersible. He's yelling as he dashes, "Thindo Vintevur WILL survive! He WILL!"
Graphite drawing of a rat terrier wearing a collar.
Cover for the book Over Freezing Altitudes, featuring a blonde girl flanked by two dogs, a black pit bull and a white rat terrier.
Cover for the book Under Falling Skies, featuring a blonde girl flanked by two dogs, a black pit bull and a white rat terrier.
A blurry photo of the author holding a three-month-old rat terrier puppy. He's black and white with cinnamon patches around his eyes, and his puppy ears are absolutely adorable.
A black and white pit bull in a pink collar is crushing my shin while a black rat terrier chihuahua is lying on my lap facing the other way.
A white and black rat terrier is enjoying the smells of the yard.
Screenshot of the top ten "Best Sellers" on Amazon in the free category of "Literature and Fiction." Number six is a certain "The Teashop Terror" by Cate Martin.
BTS from the opening of their video 2.0 dressed as gangsters. With props. Like a flute. I want to see the movie that has a gangster who carries a flute. So bad.
A picture of me working on my laptop. A fully trembling rat terrier chihuahua is between me and the keyboard. A white rat terrier is pressed up against my thigh, and a pit bull is lying on my feet.
Digital fan art drawing of Mikasa from the anime ATTACK ON TITAN. She is wielding her sword, preparing to strike, and is looking badass as always.
Two characters in the anime CALL OF THE NIGHT who are clearly modeled after R and DJ from Creepy Nuts. I might be a little obsessed with them at the moment.
Screen shot of a scene from the anime CALL OF THE NIGHT where two men are hitting on the vampire Nazuna. She is facing the viewer, but their backs are to us.
Image from the film ROHAN AT THE LOUVRE of the mysterious woman who was the subject of the painting that is too dark to be looked at.
Promotional photo from the movie ROHAN AT THE LOUVRE, with the title in Japanese and in French.
Rohan Kishibe in the anime opening up Koichi Hirose's face, much to his understandable horror.
Picture of a drawing of the character Rohan Kishibe from JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE. He is quite a bit more colorful than the live action version.
Photo from the set of ROHAN AT THE LOUVRE. Issei Takahashi is playing the character of Rohan Kishibe, and he's bringing the energy to match that outfit.
Picture of a girl of about fourteen wearing a sailor hat for some reason and grinning like a fool.
My black Pitt bull Tachikoma is being very intrusive with her smelling all over of my rat terrier chihuahua Radical Edward. He is allowing it. But he's also coming down from a lot of drugs.
Photo of Mugen, my black and white rat terrier, lying down on my mat. He is taking up a quarter of the surface but has plausible deniability because he's facing the other way. He's 14 years old, now. We let him sit where he wants.
A drawing of BMO from Adventure Time building a sand castle on the beach.
A hand holding a Ferrer Rocher ball the size of a hand grenade. It’s wrapped in gold foil with a cheery golden bow on top.
Image is of the cover of the new holiday romance anthology titled Romance for All Seasons. The cover is on a paperback book, on a phone screen, and on an e-reader.
Image is of a book cover titled FORAGING THE HIDDEN SANCTUARY. The cover shows a girl in a deep sea diving suit looking up into a beam of sunlight that is illuminating the wreck of a massive spaceship behind her. Her dog is floating behind her, also in a bubble-headed spacesuit, trying to play with a shark. Many aquatic creatures are swimming around the corals behind her and to the left of the image.
Image is of a book cover titled FORAGING THE HIDDEN SANCTUARY. The cover shows a girl in a deep sea diving suit looking up into a beam of sunlight that is illuminating the wreck of a massive spaceship behind her. Her dog is floating behind her, also in a bubble-headed spacesuit, trying to play with a shark.
Image is a cover of the quarterly magazine MCM Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem titled Spies. The image is of a man in a car shooting photos through a long lens.
Photo of the Lego minifigure of Gunther from Friends. He is wearing a green shirt with a white tie and is holding a broom and a coffee cup. Behind him are Ross at a keyboard, Phoebe with her guitar, and the rest of the cast all drinking from Lego coffee cups. There is also, for no particular reason, a squirrel sitting in a nest made of autumn leaves.
A photo of the actor Gary Jones portraying the STARGATE SG-1 character of Walter Norman Davis. In the first season or so he's always there in the background but doesn't say much. Then he starts getting lines, ever so slowly more and more lines. You know, like Gunther on FRIENDS.
Movie poster for the film Love and Basketball. A guy and a girl play one on one basketball, and it’s hot. (But, if you’ve seen the film, complicated.)
A picture of the northern lights, all salmon and green.
Pictures of the northern lights in salmon and green.
A photo of polar airship captain Umberto Nobile and his terrier Titina. By Unknown (Mondadori Publishers) - http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/italian-colonel-and-explorer-umberto-nobile-smiling-holding-news-photo/186170556, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43552222
Image from the Norwegian-Belgian animated film Titina about the first dog to travel to the North Pole. Standing behind Titina are Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen.
A photo of what appears to be blood sprayed all over the corner of a dingy room.
A Facebook Memory from 9 years ago of a meme that says "Describe yourself by using three fictional characters" with photos of Rachel Weisz showing off one of her many quirky talents in the movie THE BROTHERS BLOOM, Kate McKinnon working on something techy from the female cast version of THE GHOSTBUSTERS and the character Raven from the animated TEEN TITANS GO! show.
A picture of my black and white pit butt, Tachikoma, chilling with my ratcha Radical Edward. He's her puppy, and she loves him. Bunnies, raccoons, and otters, on the other hand...
Cover for the book Threat From the North, the fourteenth book in the Viking Witch Cozy Mystery series. The image is of a red-haired witch with her black cat chilling in a snowy, mountainous, forested landscape. Magical symbols float around her like snowflakes, and everything is coolly blue.
Half-rendered digital drawing of a still from the movie YinYang Dream Master. Two men in Chinese courtly garments are kung fu fighting over a lute. The drawing is not complete, it is only blocked-in colors in gray tones to check for color value. But it looks kind of cool.
Photograph of the space shuttle at the Udvar-Hazy center in Washington DC.
The Amazon rankings for free teen and YA space opera showing my book Murder on the Intergalactic Railway in the top spot with a book called Spaceship Ass in the second rank.
A digital fanart illustration of Edward Elric from FullMetal Alchemist. He is wearing his signature red coat and is looking down in sad exhaustion. The sky behind him is twilight.
A silver and white plushie of Snoopy types away at his typewriter, pausing to hit the carriage return and occasionally laughing out loud, as the song "Linus and Lucy" plays.
A still from the movie Drop Dead Fred. A disheveled and stressed Phoebe Cates is getting well-meaning if problematic support from her childhood imaginary friend Rik Mayall.
A girl with her red hair in fun buns is standing on a balcony overlooking a steampunk city of old stone buildings, train-like trams running on cables, and dirigibles flying overhead. Her dog beside her is half robot, half Shiba Inu. The building in the center of the city is tall with a palace on top of it. It's not built of stone. In fact, it might not really be a building at all...
A black and white rat terrier looks sleepy and sad in a postop cone of shame. He’s not happy.
A green Lego praying mantis is on a book shelf, front legs upraised. Behind him is a collection of Cate Martin books and an MST3K snow globe.
A screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3 of my halfling druid Birch dead on a beach with Gale and a random PC. We got the important hostages out in time, but were there when everything exploded so we drowned and washed ashore. It took a solid five minutes for my son and I to stop laughing about the wind blowing through the grass and nothing happening here because everyone is dead.
Screenshot of Baldur's Gate 3 where my halfling druid Birch is basically taking a selfie in hell (Avernus? House of Hope anyway), standing on a balcony with red mountains in the background.