Kate Gaind
About
I love to read and write speculative fiction. Some of my favorite books include Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven, Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men.I am a former copywriter and now full-time mom based in NYC. When I’m not clearing out deadweight in my manuscript, you can find me deadlifting in the gym or smacking forehands on the tennis court.
I'm querying my debut novel, INTERLUDE
INTERLUDE is an adult upmarket speculative novel. It combines the first-person urgency and unlikeable mother in Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear, the modern maternal burnout and systemic control of Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers, and the motherly rage of Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch—if the moms in these books had also joined a cult.The novel is set in the Enclave, a breakaway, alternate present-day NYC. At the heart is a new mother who discovers that young girls are being kidnapped by her society. To bring them justice, she must risk everything—her family, her freedom, her moral compass in joining a cult, and, most importantly, her vow to no longer make any sacrifices as a mother.Dark, sharp, and slightly absurd, the novel examines the toxic positivity of motherhood and systemic control.