Kate Rivet

Hello world!  This is my first official blog.  My name is Kate Rivet (well, that’s my pen name…let’s leave my real name out of this, shall we? ;)) and I’m a romance novelist.  I’ve loved romance novels for years now, and have always wanted to write one, so I did.  In fact, I wrote two of them.  The first one took me about a month, and I started the second one days after I’d completed book one.  They’re a set, and there will be more in the series down the line.  I’m taking a little bit of time off of writing them so I can edit book #2 and try to get an agent, and then attempt to become published.

A little bit about me: I’m based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — but I do love writing anywhere and everywhere.  I enjoy taking vacations, and especially love visiting Toronto; Toronto happens to be the setting for the first two novels in my series, and one of my favorite cities in the world.  I’m in my twenties, and I write around my day job.  I’m a nationally-certified pharmacy technician here in the US, and although my job can be rather diffcult some days, I do love it.  I hope to make writing my career sometime, but I don’t think I would ever want to give up pharmacy completely.  There is something soothing about the sound the pills make as you slide five of them at a time across the counting tray, and it brings me strange joy.  Other than work and writing (also known as job number two these days), I like watching sports and participating in social media.  I couldn’t have grown up in Pittsburgh and NOT been a fan of the Pittsburgh Penguins, and my hero growing up was Mario Lemieux.  I spent about two years of my life attending every single hockey game at Mellon Arena before I was financially unable to any longer, and I am pleased to say I’ll be seeing my first game at the Consol Energy Center when the Penguins take on — who else? — the Toronto Maple Leafs on October 13th (next Wednesday!).  Even better is that I’ll be sitting in the first row right behind the net the Maple Leaf will defend twice.  They’re my second favorite hockey team, so it’s always fun to see them play the Pens.  I’m also a football fan, but not American football.  I love Arsenal FC from the Barclay’s English Premier League, and my favorite player is Theo Walcott.  I’ve just gotten rabidly into Arsenal again recently, so it’s been extremely fun waking up early on the weekends and watching the Gunners go for the league title.  Unfortunately, real work gets in the way of most of the Champions’ League games, so I don’t get to watch those unless I DVR them.

So, that’s just a little bit about me.  If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!  I would love to hear about my readers as well, and as soon as I get this all sorted out, I’ll probably be posting an excerpt, if not the entire first chapter, of my first book.

I’ll also be posting a special page that will be a small sample of some of the music that kept me motivated while writing book two.

Until next time,
Kate