Kate MacLeod

Writer of science fiction and fantasy

Welcome to my website! It’s great to have you here!

Links to all my stories that have been published in magazines can be found under the Short Stories tab. Links to my books and where you can find them, everything from short story singles and collections to novellas to novels and box sets, is under All Books.

But All Books can be pretty overwhelming, so I’ve added a page called Reading Order to make sense of which books are in which series and what order to read them in.

My books are available as ebooks or in print and some novels are also in audio. They are available at all major retailers, or you can order my novels and book-length short story collections direct from me! My eBooks are available here (with the great folks at Bookfunnel providing customer service in case you have tech issues), and print books are available here (via Aer.io). For the books I do have in audiobook, you can get them direct from me via Author’s Direct here.

And don’t forget! Anything I’ve published in print, digital or audio is available to libraries. If your library doesn’t carry it already, just ask them to order it for you. The individual book pages have all the ISBNs.

If you want to contact me directly go here, and to join my reading team and get a free novelette as well as my newsletter, go here.

For Murdina Ritchie, acceptance at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy means one last chance at her dream of becoming a diplomat for the Union of Free Worlds. For Shackleton Fitz IV, it represents his last chance not to fail out of military service entirely.

Strange that fate should throw them together now, among the last group of students admitted after the start of the semester. They had once shared the strongest of friendships. But that all ended a long time ago.

But when an insufferable but politically important woman turns up murdered, the two agree to put their differences aside and work together to solve the case.

Because the murderer might strike again. But more importantly, solving a murder would just have to impress the dour colonel who clearly thinks neither of them belong at his academy.

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Scout Shannon’s whole family died the day the Space Farers dropped an asteroid on their domed city. Now she lives alone, out in the wild with only her dogs for company. She prefers it that way.

But Scout finds herself at a crossroads. One road leads back to a quiet life snug under the protective dome of a city. The other road leads to a life in the rebellion, a life of adventure and excitement but also danger. Dare she try to find the rebels hiding in the hills?

Then a chance encounter with a stranger from the other side of the galaxy threatens to derail what remains of Scout’s life. The entire galaxy awaits her, if she survives the next four days.

“Under Falling Skies”, a young adult science fiction novel, set on a remote planet with a distinctly Old West feel. For fans of gunslinging women and young girl assassins. And dogs.

 

The audiobook is available from me via Author’s Direct here.

 

This eBook is also part of the following digital-only box sets:

The Travels of Scout Shannon Books 1-3

The Travels of Scout Shannon Books 1-6

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When a deadly plague ravaged the Earth refugees fled into space, crowding into any space station or lunar colony that would take them. Decades passed and the descendants of the survivors struggle to live in anything remotely spaceworthy.

Omesh, banished from his Earthly home, finds himself in Barnacle Town. A collection of salvage clinging to the hull of a space station in lunar orbit. Thousands of lives cling precariously to the hull, at the whim of the corporation that owns the station.

The station manager welcomes everyone. But then the CEO arrives, intent on scraping the hull of his craft clean. Omesh and his family, friends and neighbors? Not the corporation’s problem.

With nowhere else to go, Omesh vows to fight for his new home. But physics? More merciless than any CEO.

 

The audiobook is available from me via Author’s Direct here.

 

This eBook is also part of the following digital-only box set:

The Slums of the Solar System Books 1-3

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