Blog Posts

Love and electricity: The novel ‘Child of Light’

By Kate Blackwood / August 13, 2025

Without breaking out of the character of 1896, Jesi Bender’s CHILD OF LIGHT gives an eerie premonition of electricity’s progress in the past 125 years.

Corn Belt oasis

By Kate Blackwood / May 31, 2025

I rest here, sheltered by trees. So do the birds.

Pace group

By Kate Blackwood / April 30, 2025

Committing to a group pulled my novel draft across the finish line. Same thing with my latest marathon.

I don’t dream about hot planets

By Kate Blackwood / March 31, 2025

Vacuum: the word sucked the oxygen from the car. On my side because I was thinking, “wait, IS space a vacuum?” And on Paul’s because he’s afraid of the noisy appliance we keep in the closet.