About Kate

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Kate is a former aerospace editor and technical writer. She’s a prolific gardener, specializing in Medieval and Renaissance herbs for when she’s portraying her 15th century Italian persona with her local historical re-enactment group. No, she doesn’t grow poisons, though she does have a Lucrezia-style ring. She also grows roses and has a bay tree that’s definitely outgrowing its pot. She’s fond of furry animals, perfumes, and chocolate, all of which she’s used as background in her stories.

Kate and her husband share their Los Angeles home with their extended family, a laid-back dog, and several highly opinionated cats.

Excerpts from an Interview with Kate Dominic, after a reading at Hustler’s Hollywood in August, 2003.

• How long have you been writing?
Since I could pick up a crayon. I started writing erotica in 1996, exclusively under a gay male penname.

• How long have you been writing as a man?
Even in grade school I wrote from a male point of view but I didn't tell the nuns that.

• You're married. How does your husband react to you writing erotica?
He gets the first copy of every publication I am in. He keeps my books on his night stand. And when I am writing from a male point of view, I frequently ask him 'would a guy do it this way?' Especially in the beginning, he'd tell me 'a guy would swear here' or 'a guy wouldn't have to look down to know what these parts are doing.'

• Does your husband get to take advantage of your imagination?
Anything he really wants to do, I'll try at least once... and he was a sailor. Yes, I have written lots of navy stories.

• Are your stories true?
I write as a man and as a woman. In either one of those voices, I write as people who are gay, straight, bi-sexual and transsexual. If we do a reality check here, they can't all be true, that or I am more versatile than you can imagine!

• So are any of them true?
I write fiction.

• Do you ever want to write thing other than erotica?
I can and have written many non-erotic things. I was a technical editor and writer in the aerospace industry for many years. Writing erotica is what I want to do when I grow up, if I grow up.

• Have you tried all the kinky things you write about?
I am very good at research, and that's all I am at liberty to say about that.