Kate's Blog
Second-Chance Giveaway (Plus Winners Announced)
Greetings, once again, fellow readers!Have you ever been offered a second chance? I have. The theme of second chances fascinates me. When I ponder how musicians, athletes, actors, writers, everyday people, women, children, marriages, and friendships have benefited...
A Few Photos for Your Weekend
I hope you all get the chance to take a walk this weekend! Lancaster County I bought this soft book for our granddaughter at Riehl's Quilts & Crafts, in Lancaster County. All sorts of goodies!
Arthur’s Homecoming | Guest Post by Shelley Shepard Gray
I’m delighted to have the chance to visit Kate’s blog! Thank you, Kate, for the invitation!I thought I would share a blog I wrote four years ago. It makes me smile because now I realize that the changes I was talking about were just the beginning of the many changes...
Win an Amish Basket and Copies of My Books (Plus a Winner Announced)
Greetings, fellow book lovers! Are you like me: you've got to read before turning in at night? No matter where I am or how late, I must read at bedtime to get a good night’s sleep. Reading clicks my brain to a lower gear. I can let go of my must-do and...
A Few Photos for Your Weekend
This is our tiny local nursery. Not many in the city and I love it! Could you live without electricity? This photo reminds me of the time our smoke-detector, hardwired into our alarm system, went off for a couple days. (I took this photo in Lancaster.)
Emulating the Amish
After several turbulent gusts of late afternoon wind, our electricity blinked out at our beach cabin for fourteen hours, moments after my husband had emptied a can of chili into a pan and turned on the stovetop. Soon an icy shroud descended on our outdated...
Win a Bill Coleman Matted Print AND a Copy of ‘Pennsylvania Patchwork’ (Plus a Winner Announced)
“At Mother’s Knee” a 16” X 20” Bill Coleman matted print! Bill Coleman is my favorite photographer of the Amish. I was thrilled when my publisher, David C Cook, purchased one of Bill’s marvelous images for the cover of my soon-to-be-released Amish novel, Pennsylvania...
A Few Photos for Your Weekend
I hope you all have a relaxing weekend and can sit back and just watch the view. I'm wishing my son would make another pie like this one he made last year! He's a much better chef than I am! A trip to Zook's Fabric Shop is in order! You can read more about Zook's...
About Kate
Kate Lloyd is a novelist and a passionate observer of human relationships. A native of Baltimore, MD, she and her husband live in Seattle the setting of several of her novels. She lived in Rome and studied Italian in college. Kate has worked a variety of jobs, including car salesman and restaurateur.