great review at BOOKFINDS

Bookfinds just gave The Bright Side of Disaster a fantastic review! Here’s an excerpt: “Often, I find myself leaving books half-finished, growing weary with stilted prose or predictable plots. But there are those rare moments when I find a book that really speaks to me. A book that makes me fall in love with both […]

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world-famous tortilla soup!

Last summer, reader and blogger Natasha Maw did an interview with me on her Maw Books Blog.  One of her questions was about a tomato-lime soup that I’d written about in The Bright Side of Disaster.  She thought the soup sounded good, and wondered if I had the recipe. Of course, many of things in […]

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katherine to speak at the fort bend county book & author dinner!

I will speak as a featured author at the Fort Bend County Book and Author Dinner on February 15, 2009. The dinner is just two days before Everyone Is Beautiful goes on sale, but it’s against the rules to sell books before their on-sale date.  But you CAN pre-order Everyone Is Beautiful, and it’ll arrive at […]

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great review for EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL!

The first blog review for Everyone Is Beautiful is in, and it’s great.  Marcia at The Printed Page, starts her review like this: “This book is LOL funny in parts and tackles serious subject matter with a light hand and wisdom in others. The first 5 chapters had my spouse yelling down from upstairs for […]

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great review for BRIGHT SIDE!

A feisty UK website for women readers, Trashionista, just gave Bright Side a great review! The review says: “I mentioned the other day that I loved Katherine Center’s The Bright Side of Disaster and I really did. It’s been a couple of days since I finished reading it and I wish I hadn’t. I miss […]

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university of houston: arts town hall

I had a chance to appear on a panel for an “Arts Town Hall” at the University of Houston’s Hilton hotel this week. Professor of English Elizabeth Brown-Guillory brought artists and arts administrators from every discipline together to talk about how the arts can support and nurture each other.  The panel also included novelist Chitra […]

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excerpt: everyone is beautiful

Here’s the excerpt my great publicist at Random House included with Everyone Is Beautiful when she mailed it out to reviewers this week: “There is no better people-watching than at the airport: The whole world packed into such a tight space, moving fast with all their essentials in their rolling bags. And what caught my […]

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speaking for the children’s museum

I will be speaking at the Children’s Museum of Houston’s big fundraising luncheon on February 23, 2009 — just one week after Everyone Is Beautiful goes on sale. If you’re in Houston, be sure to come!  Contact The Children’s Museum for tickets.

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everyone is beautiful

My new book, Everyone Is Beautiful, comes out February 17, 2009. Here’s the flap copy: From the author of The Bright Side of Disaster, the entertaining and ultimately poignant story of what happens after happily ever after: how a mother of three recaptures her sense of self and falls in love with her husband all […]

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