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Hello! I'm Katy L. Wood, an author/illustrator and disaster educator/researcher from Colorado. I write and self-publish fantasy adventure and survival thriller books, and create disaster education resources aimed at making information related to disasters and preparedness more accessible to everyday people.

My askbox is pretty much always open if you have questions related to art, writing, or disasters. I might not get to it right away, but I will get to it!

Here's a little introduction to all my books! You can find out more about each one on my art and writing website, including links for where to buy. You can also buy all my ebooks directly from my shop, and sometimes physical books too if I've got some extras lying around from in person shows!

You can also subscribe to my newsletter on that website, so you can get news about any new projects right in your inbox! I don't send it very often, just when there's new stuff going on.

My website also has a tip jar if you would like to send a little support that way. :)

🏳️‍🌈All books are super duper queer, but none of them are about BEING queer. The characters just ARE queer while getting up to other nonsense.🏳️‍🌈

📚🐎The Pits🐎

A fantasy western adventure, with an illustration in each chapter.

When Clarabella's girlfriend goes missing, she seeks out the only person who might be able to help: her outlaw older sibling Royal, who she hasn't seen in years. Royal knows more about the strange magic of their world than anyone. More than they should. More than the magic wants them to know.

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📚⛺Camp Daze⛺

A realistic look at trying to survive during a sudden apocalypse.

Conifer was raised to survive the end of the world, any end of the world. Except this one. When the bombs drop, she finds herself stranded in the mountains with over a hundred young campers, and only a handful of other young counselors to help her.

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📚🌲Poison in the Blood🌲

A fantasy adventure with characters that you love to hate.

Three hundred years ago, the world changed forever when vampires came out of the shadows to feed on the sick and dying after plagues swept the world.

Ten years ago, Dustin Lockwood's little sister Shae went missing as their family fled across the desolate, abandoned portions of North America. He would do anything to find her, even now.

Shae Lockwood, living it up as a rare human actress, would do anything not to be found.

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📚🔥Lie Down in the Ashes🔥

Coming soon! Releasing everywhere summer 2025.

A realistic survival thriller told through prose and epistolary elements.

Five teens go out for one last camping trip before school starts, only for one of them to accidentally start a wildfire that risks all of their lives, and the lives of many others. Their only hope is an old friend who dropped out of school to work at the local mine, in a truck he stole.

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I have been fascinated with how we tell the stories of disasters, both fictionally and in non-fiction, for years. I think there is a lot we can learn from narrative methods when it comes to better sharing disaster related information, and I'm aiming to hopefully do a PhD to dig into it more! (Might have to move to Canada to do it at this point, but I'll fuckin' figure it out.)

All my disaster related work is collected on this website.

I create posters and infographics related to different disasters and disaster preparedness. The aim is to create easy to understand, easy to share resources to help people in various disaster scenarios. You can view all of them here.

I also do periodic giveaways for my evacuation wallet cards, a handy little resource that will help you remember what to bring in the event of an evacuation, with different sections based on how much time you have. I'll always post about it when I've got some to give away!

If you would like to support the giveaways of the wallet cards, I have a Ko-fi where you can donate to help me buy stamps and envelopes!

🔥Patreon🔥

I have also recently launched a Patreon for my disaster related blogging! The majority of the posts are FREE, so you can follow without paying anything! You'll get the full posts directly in your inbox. If you do subscribe, you'll get more behind the scenes stuff, early looks at projects, and some more general ramblings. Check it out here.

I just started a new book and the font they used has tiny plus signs as periods. I hate it.

My new rosebush has buds! :D

Can't wait for her to grow. She's a lovely orange and yellow climbing rose, and I planted her right outside my office window so I'll be able to see the flowers while I work once she's all grown up.

Where to find me:

I will ride this ship to its watery grave. But I do also exist elsewhere, so, here's those spots:

📚My art and writing website. This is the best spot to keep up with all my projects, including new books and Kickstarters. You can join my newsletter there as well, which will get news about my projects directly in your inbox whenever I remember my newsletter exists.

🔥My disaster work website. This is where I stick all of my disaster specific work from disaster blogging, disaster posters, etc. etc. etc..

🌪️ My disaster blogging Patreon. I have a free Patreon for my disaster work as well! You can sign up and get all my disaster stuff directly in your inbox for free. And if you do subscribe, you'll get early access and behind the scenes stuff too!

🔵My Bluesky. I use it off and on, but if Tumblr does ever go down entirely, I'll probably start using it more.

I've got TikTok too, but that is 100% gonna be dead here in a couple months, so I'm not going to bother to link it.

How about we DON'T do that, mmkay?

Just applied for a Graduate Certificate at CU Denver and good god, could they have asked any more questions to get me to prove my Colorado residency? I don't know when I first had a car registration in my name, y'all. I can puzzle out the year, but the month? Fuck if I know.

Over the last 24-48 hours, TikTok has gone gloves off and basically said, "alrighty, you think we're a propaganda machine? Then we're going to be a fucking propaganda machine. Specifically, we're going to undo YOUR propaganda."

Dozens of Chinese manufacturers are getting pushed to the FYP right now and spilling all SORTS of tea about luxury brands and how much they actually cost and the factory conditions and how you too can just get stuff directly and even with the tariffs it'll still be cheaper than buying it here in the US.

Now, is this still propaganda from China, with things probably being glossed over and sweetened up? Of course. But it's still utterly fascinating to watch this unfold. The whole TikTok fight this year has been. Papers need to be written about this shit from cultural perspectives, sociological perspectives, economic perspectives, political perspectives, political perspectives, all the perspectives because we are in the middle of a literal digital war between two global super powers and the main battlefield is a social media app. It's wild.