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BIO

Kathleen Baldwin is an award-winning author with more than 650,000 copies of her books sold to readers around the globe. Publishers translated her books into several languages, and a Japanese publisher even made Lady Fiasco into a manga. Scholastic licensed her School for Unusual Girls series for school book fairs. The YA series won numerous awards and was optioned for film by Ian Bryce, producer of Spiderman, Transformers, Saving Private Ryan, and other blockbuster films. The series is currently in its third film option.

Kathleen loves adventure in books and in real life. She taught rock climbing in the Rockies, survival camped in the desert and the snow, was stalked by a mountain lion, lost an argument with a rattlesnake, enjoyed way too many classes in college, fell in love at least a dozen times, and married her very own hero. They’ve raised four free-spirited adventurous children and are enjoying their many grandchildren.

“A School for Unusual Girls, by Kathleen Baldwin, is enticing from the first sentence.” –The New York Times Sunday Book Review

#1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot calls Kathleen’s romantic Regency adventure, “completely original and totally engrossing.”

This and That . . . 

If you want to know about the rattlesnake,  here’s a short version from the Refuge for Masterminds blog tour: https://www.jeanbooknerd.com/2017/05/kathleen-author-interview.html

I thought it might be fun to post a personal photo of me looking pretty grubby. Hey, if a picture is worth a thousand words, this is the quickest way for you to get to know me. Right? I enjoy the irony and contrasts of the Regency era, but in my real life I’m an outdoor girl.

So, what does this photo tell you?

Are you loving that chic headgear? LOL.

This photo was taken during my rock-climbing phase. Yeah, I loved balancing on a half-inch lip of granite and tiptoeing up soaring rock faces. Dangling from a rope over a 500 ft precipice was my cup of tea. I craved climbing so much during my college days that I climbed with the local mountain rescue team and occasionally gave climbing lessons.

Except… hold on a minute, this isn’t me on a rock face.

Nope, this is deep inside a cave. Yikes! We were more than a mile underground mapping a deserted geyser pit on the far side of Lake Bonneville–one of my rare spelunking excursions. That geyser tube was so deep we had to hook our ropes to a giant reel of telephone cable. More than a mile of cable later, we still hadn’t reached the bottom. We did, however, see a few interesting rock formations.

In case you can’t tell, I’m not crazy about caves. I especially don’t like squishy, squeezy, skinny ones. I get a little claustrophobic. So, you’re looking at a picture of super uncomfortable Kathleen. After climbing for six hours, I was covered in crusty clay and so tired I couldn’t see straight. That’s when some joker with a camera decided it was a perfect time to take my picture.

Hhmmm.

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