Author Spotlight: Kathryn Beck

Kathryn is a transplanted Canadian who now calls Texas home. She loves writing strong, morally gray women tackling complex relationships and their messy lives. Kathryn enjoys road trips, spa weekend getaways, and spending time with family and friends.

 

 

I have been writing for as long as I can remember. Starting with poetry and, in high school, I wrote my first novel. As often happens, life intervenes—marriage, kids, making a living—and weaving stories took a backseat. Writing would pop its head out of the dirt every so often, but it wasn’t until my kids were out of the house that I had the persistence to sit at the keyboard seriously. I am never happier than when I’m at my computer in the middle of the night, fingers flying across the keyboard. I have written seven novels to date and am slowly releasing them into the world. I keep scraps of new novel ideas in a journal book titled “Things I was told by the voices in my head”. There’s no end to where my brain goes once it latches onto a character who needs life breathed into them.

 

Teachers—good teachers inspired me. In high school, I had a creative writing teacher who read my first short story to the class. It was the most embarrassing but exhilarating moment of my life. In college, they ripped me apart (in a good way). My favorite genre is women’s fiction. I love seeing a woman’s twisty turny journey into wholeness. Women’s fiction is messy, so much like life.

 

Kathryn’s works…

Where the Road Ends

Three Waves, One Ocean

Wind Chasers – (Available August 11, 2025)

 

Where The Road Ends Blurb

Bartender Mara Sawyer has sixty days to turn her life around. If she can’t, Mara will lose the chance to regain custody of her daughter. Never having envisioned her life as a living, breathing, public service announcement for the Wyoming judicial system, Mara embraces the judge’s harsh rebuke. Finding a steady job will be easy, finishing school will be easy. Eluding the distraction of the new swaggering Texan, Luke Whitten, will be anything but easy.

With all her cards on the table, Luke and Mara build a strong friendship and along the way, she gives herself permission to fall in love again. When Mara’s ex offers up full custody in exchange for betraying Luke, Mara must choose — her daughter’s happiness, or her own.

 

One of Kathryn’s favourite scenes from Where The Road Ends…

He said it to the bartender last night, to himself plenty of times in the last couple of weeks, but in the valley before him, his new reality stared him in the face.

Rushing, as if it had somewhere to be in a hurry instead of considering all the people inconvenienced, the Green River raced up and over the asphalt of the interstate in the distance.

The End of the Road.

Luke pivoted on the dirt, taking in the white mountains, the pine trees snaking up the incline into the bluest, widest sky he’d ever seen. All the air a man could hope to breathe.

Rock Springs would be a tough town if bartender girl were any sign. A tough town built with tough people who weathered tough times with grit and tenacity.

He cocked his head and smiled. He’d fit right in.

 

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