I present strange slideshows, speak on panels at conferences, and do fiction readings. I have more fun doing this than should perhaps be considered legal.

Find older portfolio examples below, though I update these regularly and based on audience needs. I’m available for guest lectures and presentations; contact me for more information.

Figure 1. Photograph by Pippin Macdonald, July 2026; Katherine presenting the “Saga of Blood Marmalade” at Readercon.

“Faking and Re-Making: The Use of Emotional Responses and Creative Resonances in Communal Multimedia Storytelling” was written and presented with co-authors Dr. Naomi Jacobs, Shivhan Szabo, and myself at Fan Studies North America 2023 (more info here!). The video version was then published through Transformative Works and Culture 42 (2024).

“Weird Research 101 (for papers, shenanigans, etc.)”: A slidedeck originally created in 2022 for students to demonstrate how to do internet research on weird topics… before it morphs into a very concrete example of why checking primary sources is so very important.

It has since become the “Saga of Blood Marmalade” and the subject of further in-progress academic work.

“How Not to Be Evil (By Accident), Or: Baking Consent in from the Beginning” was a slidedeck created for the graduate-student panel discussion “Consent and the Magic Circle” (2024) at WPI, discussing ways creators can attempt to fold audience consent into their games.

“What is a short story? (it depends)”: The slidedeck for the first lecture in my “Writing Short Fiction” course that helps frame how students can think about short stories ahead of starting to write them. (Note! This lecture assumes live instruction in parallel, and maybe, someday! I’ll add a recording to go with it.)

“Characters (and the messes they make)”: The slidedeck for the third lecture in my “Writing Novels” course, in which I offer a way of considering casts of characters in novels and the role they play in plots. (Note: This lecture assumes live instruction in parallel, and maybe, someday! I’ll add a recording to go with it.)

“Self-Publishing: Where you’re your own boss (and solely responsible for what happens)”: The slidedeck for the third lecture in my “Practical Publishing” course, in which I discuss the business end of self-publishing as compared to traditional publishing. (Note: This lecture assumes live instruction in parallel, and maybe, someday! I’ll add a recording to go with it.)

“Think of it, fair reader, not as if the decision of the question depended upon yourself, but upon that hot-blooded, semi-barbaric princess, her soul at a white heat beneath the combined fires of despair and jealousy. She had lost him, but who should have him?”
–The Lady; or, The Tiger (Podcast)

“Under the skin, hidden away, there was a wide, white line, cut eight inches across, held together with little black stitches. Someone had cut me open there.”
–Your Hand in Mine, We’ll Be All Right (YouTube)

“The like frailties are to be found in the Memory; we often let many things slip away from us, which deserve to be retained; and of those which we treasure up, a great part is either frivolous or false; and if good, and substantial… either in tract of time obliterated, or at best so overwhelmed and buried under more frothy notions, that when there is need of them, they are in vain sought for.”
-from Robert Hooke’s 1665 Micrographia, recorded in Tap-Tap 2, (Vimeo)

I’m one of four siblings who were raised by working freelance authors— and when you have a big family with two parents who are full-time writers, the craft of writing basically becomes a family business. We grew up talking about the art of storytelling; now that we’re adults, we’re still talking about it, and we invite you to join the conversation.