Kate Thompson - Children's Author

About Me

My name is Kate Thompson and I am a children's author. I also write as K.R. Thompson when writing my longer fiction for children, including Werelock and Scratch, my new puzzle solving, interactive, werewolf detective adventure series for readers aged 7 years and up.

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I spent most of my childhood reading, off on exciting bookish adventures with hobbits and dragons and crime-solving detectives. I started writing and illustrating picture books when I was about 6 years old.

Childhood Kate Writing
Childhood Kate Painting

The first complete book I ever wrote (and illustrated) was this one:

My first book cover

It even had a little finger puppet inside that I'd made (loosely based on another children's book I'd read at the time!):

My first book (inside page)

I decided then and there that when I grew up I was going to be a children’s author (while doing some detective work on the side).

However, instead when I grew up I became a lawyer. I was good at this job, and it did involve lots of reading and writing, and sometimes even a bit of detective work, but it never felt quite right for me.

But then I was lucky enough to become a mum to two lovely boys and from my very first bedtime story session, I fell back into love with picture books and storytelling. 

It took lots of hard work and persistence, but I now live by the sea and spend my days having bookish adventures of my own making, which even involves creating my very own mysteries to solve! And who knows, maybe one day I'll find a real-life mystery that needs solving too!

Five (Slightly) Interesting Facts About Me

  1. I am completely deaf in my right ear.
  2. When I was sixteen I won a family holiday to Lapland by writing a slogan for Le Crunch Apples - "I would share my favourite Le Crunch apple with Rudolph because.... Just a munch from LeCrunch gives a glow from head to toes, not just the nose!"
  3. I am very accident-prone on my birthday - over the years on my birthday I have fallen into brambles, run through neck-high stinging nettles, slipped over in sheep poo and set my hair on fire.
  4. I am a master of the dewey decimal system thanks to my previous life as a Library Assistant.
  5. I am almost definitely a brilliant crime-solving detective*.

*Disclaimer: No actual training has been undertaken, unless you count the reading of approximately 527 fictional detective stories as training.