

For several generations, her family has been telling of a powerful and mysterious protector.

Kate Straddling’s novel “Kingdom Of Ruses” tells the life of Viola Moreland which happens to be a well orchestrated lie. She can often be found drinking yogurt smoothies and is glad to be living her dream life. After living most of her life in Arizona, she has come to enjoy the air conditioning and the hot weather. She believes that in the end all kinds of fiction would fit in the fantasy definition, with the proper fantasy genre just being more upfront about the fantastical elements. What she loves best about the genre is the fantasy settings and versatility it provides. Straddling considers herself a fantasy writer and loves writing. What was supposed to have been an epic trilogy remains unfinished with just two titles. Since then, she has bounced through the genres from time travel, dystopia lite, Beowulf inspired tales and rewritten fairy tales. It would take Kate Straddling another five years before she finished her debut novel and she decided to publish it as an indie several years following completion. When she finally spilled her secrets to her cousin and three siblings it was in her parents’ basement.Īt that time she felt as if she was confessing to a drug addition even though writing could never come close to doing drugs.


She has asserted that she never did admit to writing anything until about a decade after that as she hid her love for writing just like one would hide their most evil vices. It was not long before she was writing the debut novel of what would become an epic fantasy trilogy. She said she would become an author but always thought fantasy would just be a waste of her talents. She has always known she wanted to become an author ever since her sophomore English teacher asked her what she wanted to do for a career in adulthood. Kate Straddling is a fantasy and young adult fiction author from Arizona in the United States.
