Cate's Writing

Welcome to Cate's page.

This site features the novels of Cate Culpepper.

Her next release, coming from Bold Strokes Books in July, 2012:

A Question of Ghosts

Becca Healy always believed she understood the shameful circumstances of parents’ deaths – until the night her mother’s spirit whispers a simple message out of the static of a radio: “Not true.” Becca turns to the terse Dr. Joanne Call, an expert in ghost voices, to unravel the mystery that has haunted her life. Jo can coax messages from a silent grave, but coping with this feisty, emotional Healy person might be completely beyond her. Together, Becca and Jo must tackle childhood grief, a serial killer, Xena withdrawal, and a growing attraction between the two most mismatched women in Seattle.

“Any night La Llorona walks the river is a night to stay indoors.”

One moonlit midnight, two very different women meet on the banks of the muddy Rio Grande. Grady is a cultural anthropologist, enthralled by a local ghost story about a vengeful spirit known as the River Walker. Elena, a spiritual healer, is that tortured spirit’s only defender. Together, Grady and Elena must find a way to end the River Walker’s murderous vendetta – and overcome a maze of cultural barriers to find each other.

In 2011, River Walker was the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Romance of the year, a Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Paranormal Romance, and named one of the top five general fiction novels by the Lesbian Readers' Choice Awards.

Three extraordinary women – Mac, a counselor, Abby, a doctor, and Cleo, an attorney -- bring their skills and dedication to Fireside, a domestic violence shelter in rural Virginia. The healing Fireside offers its residents forms the backdrop to the growing love between Mac and Abby.

This novel can be ordered from :

Bold Strokes Bookstore

The Tristaine novels

Tales about a modern-day Amazon clan, struggling to survive against odds more brutal than any faced by their ancient ancestors.

The Clinic is available from the following internet retailers:

Bold Strokes Bookstore

StarCrossed Productions

Amazon.com

BATTLE FOR TRISTAINE

The second book in the trilogy, Battle for Tristaine, won the 2004 Golden Crown Literary Society's award for Speculative Fiction.

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Battle for Tristaine is available from the following internet retailers:

Bold Strokes Bookstore

StarCrossed Productions

Amazon.com

TRISTAINE RISES

Tristaine Rises continues the love story between Jess and Brenna, as Tristaine is threatened by a centuries-dead queen.

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Tristaine Rises is available from the following internet retailers:

Bold Strokes Bookstore

StarCrossed Productions

Amazon.com

QUEENS OF TRISTAINE

(Cover image for Queens of Tristaine by Barbara Kiwak)

Tristaine's hard-won peace is shattered when a lethal epidemic threatens to devastate the Amazon clan. Their only hope for a cure lies in the sinister laboratories of the City Clinic. To save the sisters they love, Jess and Brenna must leave their mountain village and return to the malevolent Government facility that almost cost them their lives. The danger they face is harrowing, the stakes enormous . . . and they have precious little time.

Queens of Tristaine is now on sale from the following retailers:

Bold Strokes Bookstore

Amazon.com

February, 2008

I was pleased to be named one of the recipients of the Alice B Reader's Appreciation Award for 2008. As this award acknowledges a writer's body of work, my thanks to my editors at Bold Strokes Books, Cindy Cresap, Shelley Thrasher, and JB Greystone for shaping every book this body has thus far produced.

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All of Cate's novels are published through Bold Strokes Books.

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From the Fortitude Press anthology of short stories,

First Blush:

Bus Stop Revisited

Xena: Warrior Princess Fanfiction

Tales from Cate's best-beloved cheesy television series

Friends Remembered

Aspen's Child

Assumptions

How well do you know this clan? Test your knowledge of Tristainian Trivia

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Read autographs left by Friends of Cate

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Email: culp2923@aol.com