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About Me

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The Sweet Gum Tree

How do you write a review and explain how fully and deeply it touched you? Do you speak of how you wept, laughed, mourned and rejoiced with Alix? Or how deep in your heart, you long for Alix and Nick to be together despite the pain they have caused each other? There are simply not enough words to describe how Katherine Allred touches your soul in The Sweet Gum Tree. I can only say it's a keeper. In the Library Reviews

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My Interests

Reading, writing, my Australian Shepherds, Buddy and Stix, my cat, Fuzz, my children and my grandchildren, TV shows I like.

I'd like to meet:

All my favorite authors.

Music:

Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood, Montgomery Gentry, Lonestar, The Wreckers, Tim McGraw, Eagles, Rod Stewart, Sting, Meatloaf, Queen, The Fray, Nellie F., and way too many more to list.

Movies:

In no particular order:

Notting Hill, Twister, Man from Snowy, Enemy Mine, Starship Troopers, Along Came a Spider, Dragonheart, The First Knight, Medicine Man, Con Air, Rob Roy, Ladyhawke

Television:

Thank heavens for TiVo!!

Grey's Anatomy, Bones, Survivors, CSI Las Vegas, House, Ghost Whisperer, American Idol, Lost, Medium, Men in Trees, Law and Order, Heroes

Books:

Favorite authors: Nora Roberts, Linda Howard, Sandra Brown, Tami Hoag, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Julie Garwood, Julia Quinn, Judith McNaught, Jayne Ann Krentz, LaVyrle Spencer, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Anne McCaffery, Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Heroes:

My husband and my children, and all those writers who never give up hope of being published.

My Blog

A Writer’s Career: Step One

I was born with a book in one hand and the diagram for a PC in the other. Yes, it was probably uncomfortable for dear old mom, but those are the facts. So I guess you could say I've always wanted to b...
Posted by Katherine Allred on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:37:00 PST

Bodice Rippers (or how to tick off a romance writer)

Want to really tick off a romance writer? Call her book a bodice ripper. Works every time. And there's a very good reason why.According to Wikipedia (which we all know is THE word on any topic of impo...
Posted by Katherine Allred on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:35:00 PST

Myspace Addiction

This has to stop. In the two short months I've had a profile up, I've become addicted to myspace. I'll be sitting at my computer writing (also known as staring into space) and I'll su...
Posted by Katherine Allred on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:55:00 PST