Kate Johnson (writer)
Kate Johnson, also known as Cat Marsters, is a British author who writes in the Paranormal and Speculative Romantic Novel genres. She is the author of the award-winning novel Max Seventeen.
Biography
Kate Johnson was born in Leeds in 1982. Her family moved to Essex when she was two. Johnson lives in Essex and attended Joyce Frankland Academy.She became a published author at the age of 23 with the sale of her first novella, She Who Dares, under her pen name Cat Marsters, and the following year sold her first book under her own name, I, Spy?.
She is the author of the Romantic Novel of the Year award-winning novel Max Seventeen. The novel was self-published, which made it the first time an indie publication won an award from the Romantic Novelists' Association. Under the name Cat Marsters she wrote erotic romance, which won the Wisconsin Romance Writers' Silver Quill and Passionate Ink's Passionate Plume award.
Awards
- 2021 – Shortlisted Jackie Collins Romantic Thriller Romantic Novel of the Year Award for Death Comes To Cornwall
- 2021 – Shortlisted Holt Medallion Mainstream/Single Title for Not Your Cinderella
- 2018 – Shortlisted Paranormal or Speculative Romantic Novel of the Year Award for Max Seventeen: Firebrand
- 2017 – Winner [Romantic Novelists' Association Awards|Paranormal or Romance novel|Speculative Romantic Novel of the Year Award] for Max Seventeen
- 2012 – Shortlisted Contemporary Romantic Novel of the Year Award for The United Kingdom
- 2010 – Epic Award for Mad, Bad and Dangerous
- 2005 – Silver Quill Award for Almost Human
- 2005 – Passionate Plume Award for Almost Human