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Indie · Silver Spring, Maryland
Katherine Pickett
A Maryland-based author and editor whose debut novel follows a widowed mother with multiple sclerosis training for a 150-mile cycling event.
Katherine Pickett is a Silver Spring, Maryland-based author and editor. Her contemporary/women’s-fiction debut, Debra Lee Won’t Break, follows a widowed mother with multiple sclerosis who trains for a 150-mile cycling event. Pickett began writing adult fiction in 2022, making this an early fiction career despite her prior experience in publishing and nonfiction.
Debra Lee Won’t Break is self-published through Hop On Publishing, an author-affiliated small company Pickett formed with her husband, using a freelance editorial, design, and publicity team — a well-documented author-led publishing case.
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