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About Cat


Why do I write romance? 

Romance novels got me through law school. 

Admittedly, they weren’t much help in learning Torts or Tax Law, but when that last exam of each semester was done and I emerged from the law library blinking in the sunlight like Punxsutawny Phil on Groundhog Day, romance novels made me whole.  I’d devour them, one after another, letting my bruised and abused brain cells rest and recoup in the warm bath of a well-written romance.

When I became a criminal defense lawyer and my crazy hours shifted from the law library to jails, prisons, and courtrooms — romance novels balanced the grit of my everydays.  High stakes and suspense make for great stories, but actually living them? Let’s just say I needed those happily-ever-afters more than ever.

I owe romance novels for picking me up off the ground more times than I count. So, when I got the chance to actually WRITE them?  How could I not jump at that?

I’ve been writing stories since I was a kid.  (Totally freaked out my mom when she found one of my early creations and mistook it for a diary entry and . . . well obviously, my ‘life’ contained a lot more drama than she’d ever noticed. Ha!)

And of course, I’ve spent a lot of years writing legal briefs and law journal articles. (Woot! Or . . . er . . . not.) But the chance to write for FUN?  I’m SOOOOOO in.

So here we are: My Chapter Three.  (Oh, did I forget to mention the whole owning-a-metaphysical-bookstore in there, too?  Yeah, that was Chapter Two. So, murder and magic — my two careers to date! I mean, really. How can there NOT be a novel in there?)

Anyway, I’m so very glad to have you along for the ride and the reads. Whatever stuff is going on in your lives, may my books make your days a little bit brighter, calmer, funnier, sexier, more happily-ever-after-er — like so many of the authors I relied on did for me.  After all, life is all about paying it forward, right??

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Chasing Shadows
by Cat Jameson

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Both! Cat is my real name, but Jameson is a pen name. Turns out there is already a well-known author by the name of Cat Kelly (my real name). And yes, I considered just glomming my books onto her coattails, but in the end, decided it best to avoid the karmic hit of trying to steal another author’s name recognition for my own purposes. Hence – the pen name.  And who knows? I might wind up liking Cat Jameson so much I make it my legal name!

Why Jameson? Jameson Irish Whisky, of course!

Umm . . .  everywhere?  Don’t mean to sound like a broken record, but it’s true.  I keep a running Note in my phone titled “Writing Ideas” where I jot down funny things that happen, stories people tell me about their experiences (which I always ask if I can put in a story someday), random observations on quirky things in life that might wind up part of a character’s personality or backstory.  And of course, most of my stories have a criminal law element because I was a criminal defense lawyer for many, many years — definitely fertile ground for story ideas!

I expect romance will always play a part of anything I write, but maybe not as spicy or central to the story in some things I’m playing around with. So yes, I have ideas!!  More mystery stuff. A young-adult fantasy novel is percolating. A couple of screenplays are rolling around the in back of my brain. Who knows what will find its way out and onto my laptop??

Ooh, I wish!  I do love to travel though. I blame my dad for my travel gene. He took the family on epic road trips all across the country, hauling the pop-up camper behind us with only a direction in mind for our destination.  “Let’s go West this year!” And off we’d go, stopping at whatever caught our eye along the way. He took us to every state in the lower forty-eight, while our educator mom read us books set in whatever part of the country we happened to be exploring that trip. I will be forever grateful to the both of them for those amazing trips. (Though I was telling my mom once how much I loved the trip we took to Washington State and she responded, “Are you kidding me? You bitched that entire trip. We were ready to stick you on a bus and send you home!”  In fairness, I was sixteen that summer, so — ). ANYWAY . . . 

A lot of my pics are from trips to Ireland and the UK. My business partner and best friend and I decided to make a trip to Ireland for our 60th birthdays (which are three months apart)  and I fell in love with the Emerald Isle. I’ve been back three times since, including a fabulous summer of writing there overlooking Galway Bay. I got to travel to Wales with a tour group of like-minded folk, to Edinburgh with a dear friend from law school, and then most recently to the Yorkshires for the awesome Decency Be Damned Writer’s Retreat. (Check out more about that in Shenanigans!) Probably good thing I’m not independently wealthy. I’d never be home!

Okay, let’s see. I’m the middle child of a railroader dad who passed away in 2013 (my text message alert is a train whistle in his honor) and a teacher mom who retired as a director of special education. I have one older sister (children’s author, KJ Williams https://www.kjwilliamsauthor.co) and one younger brother (retired theatre professor and dialect coach who is directing my audio book productions!). 

I am amicably divorced after twenty years of marriage. (We get along much better now that we’re not living together.) 

And I have two fabulous daughters. My oldest is an occupational therapist who married her high school sweetheart and is the mom of my two adorable granddaughters. My youngest is a pediatrician finishing up her residency with plans to go into neonatology. (They both got their science brains from their dad’s side of the family, believe me!) 

So yeah — definitely blessed on the family front! (Though neither my mom nor my daughters will read my books because of the steamy sex scenes. Just not the kind of thing my 89-year-old mom goes in for and, while my daughters will happily enjoy steamy romances written by other people, they think it’s just too weird to read ones written by their MOM.  LOL.)

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