Children's Author, Magazine Writer, Speaker, Writing Teacher...

Kathryn Lay's BLOG

Wendy's Weather Warriors series, from Calico Chapter Books, a division of Magic Wagon, ABDO Book Publishers, a six-book chapter book series of fun and fact.

Click here for more info!

Look for my picture book from Pelican Books, Josh's Halloween Pumpkin.

School elections. Local elections. National elections. Talk about leadership, elections, and friendship with Crown Me!, a middle grade novel.
See what they're saying about my School Program in conjuction with the book.

** CROWN ME news! CROWN ME! has been published with Scholastic Book Club and Fairs in the Fall of 2006 under a new title, HOW TO RULE THE SCHOOL. Watch for it in your Scholastic paper and book fairs!

*** CROWN ME! was chosen as the 2007 Community Read book for Victor Intermediate School in Rochester, New York. Click here to learn more about this amazing event.

Crown Me! is the winner of the Texas State Reading Association's Golden Spur Award, 2005. Voted on by Texas students.

Welcome to my website! It’s great to have you visit. As my website grows, I hope you’ll come back to check out my information for writers, my books and magazine writing information, my online writing classes, and how I can speak for your writing group, conference or school.

Have you always wanted to write saleable stories for magazines? Take one of my classes.

Do you need a speaker for your conference or writer’s workshop? Look at my list of topics. My writing experiences span a variety of genres, ages, and topics.

Need some inspiration, information, and motivation? Check out my book, The Organized Writer Is A Selling Writer.

Come on in and visit a prolific lover of the written word!

- Kathryn Lay