Kitty Thomas

Quirky PNR and Dark Romance


NEW RELEASE

New Release: THE ESCAPE ARTIST



My release week contest ended at midnight January 28th, but please check out my new release. You will love this book!

THE ESCAPE ARTIST is now LIVE! You guys will LOVE this one!

Claire was held captive for 43 days by a man who did unspeakable things to her.

Three years after her escape, she gets her revenge. The only problem is, she’s got the wrong man.

God help her if he escapes.

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What Readers are Saying about THE ESCAPE ARTIST

Kitty described this book as a hybrid love child between Comfort Food and Tender Mercies (my #1 and #2) and it absolutely is that. If you liked either of those, chances are you’ll love this.” – Charlie, Goodreads Reader

Her worlds always seem to be so wrong, yet somehow turn out to have been right all along. And this world is just another incredible example of that. And holy shit does it ever deliver. You almost couldn’t make up a story this crazy.” – Cindi Russell, Goodreads Reader

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  2. James Robert says

    It has been great hearing about your book and although I am not the reader myself, my 2 sisters and 2 daughters are. They love hearing about the genre’s they like and me helping them get to find books they will enjoy. Thanks for sharing!

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  5. AlexD. says

    I know you’ve said in the past that you haven’t told your family you write as KT-correct me if I am wrong. But if one day that changes, which book would you use to introduce them to your work? Which would be the last one you recommend?
    Thank you!

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    • Kitty says

      oh my immediate family knows my pen name, the rest don’t and won’t. And none of my family reads my books. I couldn’t write these books if my family were reading them. They are WAY too personal. It would be like them standing in my bedroom watching me have sex. I’m not ashamed of what I write, but some things are private and I don’t share things like this with family members.

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  7. Mirele Dourado Pauly says

    Your books sound so compelling!
    Question: is there any kind of scene that you think it’s harder to write about for whatever reason (it’s too close to home, it’s too emotional etc)?

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  8. Betul says

    Congrats on your new release. I can’t wait to read this book.
    My question: What type of scenes are the hardest to write, and why?

    Thank you for another amazing giveaway!

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    • Kitty says

      believe it or not… the sex. Sometimes I skip the sex scenes and come back and fill them in when I know the characters better. And I don’t know why. Sex is just hard to write.

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  10. Chris Gutowski says

    Kitty, I LOVE Ari! I’m still not all that fond of Quill/Kane. What made you think he and Quill would be great friends? I thought they were a strange pairing, but they did seem to work as friends.

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    • Kitty says

      LOL Ari just showed up in THE CON ARTIST and Quill trusted him, so it just happened. And I love Quill. He will always be one of my favorites.

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    • Kitty says

      Comfort Food was the hardest to write. It was just really emotionally draining. Though all of them are hard in diff ways. The Escape Artist is my favorite.

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  12. Lynne Brigman says

    Which book of yours was the hardest to write and which book is your favorite?
    Thank you for the awesome giveaway ❤

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  22. Suzana T. says

    Congrats on your new release. You’re new to me and I can’t wait to read one of your books – soonish. Thank you for the giveaway

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    • Kitty says

      Start with The Escape Artist. If you don’t love this book then you won’t like anything I write because everybody says this is my best work yet. And it’s a standalone.

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    • Kitty says

      I don’t have writing snacks. I’m not really a snacker in general. I find having to eat sort of annoying because I’m busy. So I confine it to meal times.

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    • Kitty says

      oh good question! Yes, but usually just once about 6 months after release so I can experience it as close to “the reader experience” as possible. And then I have a few that are favorites that I’ve read multiple times: Tabula Rasa, Con Artist, and Blood Mate. This reminds me we are getting close to time when I can read Twisted Fates.

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  39. Debbie Rice says

    Awesome giveaway thank you so much for the opportunity and your generosity can’t wait to read this book and others thank you

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    • Kitty says

      I wanted to try a little role reversal. And Ari was the perfect guy to put in the story. She gets revenge on the wrong guy, but what happens when he has her under his power? What will he do with that power?

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    • Kitty says

      My favorite is always my most recent, so Escape Artist. Hardest to write was Comfort Food. it was just very emotionally draining.

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  44. Jennifer Shiflett says

    You always have the most beautiful covers! Do you pick them before you start writing, or as you go along?

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    • Kitty says

      My cover artist usually finds the images to go on the cover, though I think this time I found the girl. And I order cover art at various stages it just depends on my promo schedule.

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  46. athena graeme says

    I just got a kindle for Christmas, I travel a ton overseas so getting books in English was a problem until now! So I’m looking for some good dark books. I like the blurbs on yours, which book would you recommend as a jump-off point to start with?

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    • Kitty says

      I would recc THIS one, The Escape Artist. After that, The Con Artist, then the Pleasure House series starting with Guilty Pleasures. And at some point you should definitely read Comfort Food. happy Reading! And congrats on your Kindle!

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  47. Elle says

    Hi Kitty,

    this looks like a book I’d love to read!!! Congrats on the release 😀

    My question: Which one of the books you wrote would be your least favourite one (and optional additional quiestion: why?)?

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    • Kitty says

      hmmm least favorite? I think that’s kind of like asking “Which one of your children would you have left at the hospital?” LOL.

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    • Kitty says

      hmmm least favorite? I think that’s kind of like asking “Which one of your children would you have left at the hospital?” LOL.

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  48. LINDSAY FOSTER says

    YAY! FINGERS CROSSED THANKS GIRLIE IM SO HAPPY I STUMBLED ACROSS YOUR BLOG I FEEL LIKE IVE ALREADY WON ! LOL XOXO

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  49. Erin N says

    I am so excited to read your book! Where did you get your inspiration from? Thank you so much! All the best in 2020!

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  51. Leanne says

    This sounds amazing , I will definitely order it . I love a good thriller . Is this your first book ? I would love to read more .

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    • Kitty says

      LOL no… I have a huge backlist. I’ve been publishing since 2010.
      Check out the “my work” tab at the top of the website to see all my work.

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    • Kitty says

      I honestly have no idea how to answer that. Ideas come from everywhere. I know that sounds like a brush off but it’s just the way writer minds work. And there is no way to pinpoint it because every idea is a combination of several smaller ideas combined.

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  54. Brandilyn Petitto says

    No questions but I wanted to let you know that I loved reading this book. First book I’ve ever read by you and it was fantastic. ❤

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  57. Casey says

    Kitty! I’m halfway through The Escape Artist and, as always, you are KILLING it. So many unbelievably amazing quotes. Bought it in ebook so I could read it immediately but I’m gonna buy it in paperback too!

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  60. Victoria Alexander says

    YES!! No questions, just can’t wait to read this!! Thanks for sharing and for the awesome giveaway 🙂

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    • Kitty says

      oh too many to name so I’m probably leaving some out: Claire Kent, Willow Winters, CJ Roberts, Anna Zaires, JA Huss, Caroline Kepnes… ugh my brain is fried. It’s release week. It’s a big list though.

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  68. Pauline Milner says

    I have been a freelance writer for over 15 years, but I have been writing for clients (articles, white papers, annual reports, etc.). This year, I have pivoted to concentrate on my own writing. I am working for finish a full length screenplay (disaster movie), five horror shorts that are meant to be shown at the same time, making up a full length movie. I have also written a children’s book and a short novel. It seems the only way I can write is to ‘write’ the words first in my head and then type them. Many times, I ‘write’ an entire paragraph before committing it to paper. However, I seem to sometimes have difficulty getting the words typed onto my laptop. Is there any advice you could offer? I really wish I could put one of those memory sticks in my ear and download all of my writing, it would be so much easier! Thanks very much for any input you may have.

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    • Kitty says

      I’m sorry I can’t because I don’t compose that way. I type AS I’m thinking. Like my fingers are on the keyboard and I’m basically taking dictation. I’ve certainly sometimes had images of scenes come up when I”m away from my computer or lines of dialogue. Sometimes I write those down on a scrap of paper so I don’t forget them but I compose on the computer itself.

      And it seems to me that maybe you have a kind of hesitance and are trying to “get it perfect in your head” before you write it down. You’re not chiseling this into a stone tablet and the delete key is easy to use (though in a first draft I wouldn’t get into that habit either.) It would probably benefit you to learn how to compose into the computer as you’re thinking it so that your thoughts and your typing become linked in such a way that writing and thinking are basically the same act.

      It will save you years of angst and writer’s block. A couple of books you might look into: Writing into the dark by Dean Wesley Smith (I wouldn’t recc taking ANY of his marketing advice though as he’s a “build it and they will come” sort which is absolutely untrue), and “If you can talk, you can write.” While that latter book is geared more toward non-fiction it involves a mindset that might help.

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    • Kitty says

      it just comes into my head. I’m sure, like dreams, it’s sort of an amalgam of different things but there is no one specific thing.

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    • Kitty says

      Also, after decades of writing (I’ve been writing fiction since childhood), most of the creative process for me is an unconscious process. It’s largely an act of “channeling”. I trust this process and I no longer question it. Nor do I analyze or scrutinize it. It’s like water that flows over you in the shower. It’s just an experience. And not something that I think about in the sense of analyzing where this or that comes from. Where does a flower come from? Where does a tree come from? Or a cloud? We all have our theories but nobody really KNOWS this stuff and I think art is the same way.

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  73. Marissa Buffett says

    How old were you when you decided you wanted to be a writer?

    A few time’s over the years I thought about it, not sure if it’s too late to start.

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    • Kitty says

      I just wanted to do a turn the tables revenge plot. I really can’t explain where ideas come from. they just COME. A lot of times I wake up with them. Sometimes plots almost fully formed in my head and sometimes I just get a piece of the idea and write my way into it. I truly believe art is magic. Like literally a supernatural force. And basically the writing gods give me my ideas. No joke.

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  77. Anne Scott says

    This book sounds fascinating! I haven’t read it yet, but hope to soon. But what is really gorgeous without even reading it is the cover! You are lucky to have found someone who can do covers like this! Awesome!

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  80. Carla says

    Would you like to Enter this new giveaway for a signed paperback of The Con Artist : facebook.com/darkromanceobsession/posts/445599732988477

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  81. Nina T says

    Thank you for the chance!
    I’m not a big fan of dark romance but this one sounds really good!
    Which dark romance authors would you suggest to a newbie to this (sub)genre? Who are your favorites?

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    • Kitty says

      okay so I’m confused (not being a smartass, genuinely curious)… you aren’t a big fan of dark romance but you want reccs? Can I ask what it is you don’t like about Dark Romance and also what makes you curious enough to ask about them? And definitely if you are newer to this genre give Escape Artist a go! Other authors I would recc? Anna Zaires Twist Me series. Hold by Claire Kent is wonderful. JA Huss has a lot of fabulous twisted weird stuff!, Willow Winters has some great stuff! Her Merciless series as well as her standalone Broken.

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    • Kitty says

      That’s a question I can’t really answer. It’s different each time. And lots of times I literally just wake up with ideas. And it might not be a full book, just a snippet, so I’ll write that down and go about my life, then something in my life or in a movie or something I overhear sparks another idea and it goes together with the first idea. I don’t know it’s a weird freaky magic sort of thing. I usually just say The Writing Gods and leave it at that.

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  84. Chanda says

    For years, while I’ve loved everything you’ve authored, I always had my top three: Comfort Food, Big Sky & Broken Dolls, with Comfort Food being #1. The Escape Artist has officially taken Comfort Food’s #1 spot. I love everything about this book, especially Ari. The Escape Artist has been added to my reread stack. ♥️

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  86. Michelle Catallo says

    Of course #1 ~ congrats! This looks and sounds like a delicious read!

    Question:
    You have worked in different genres, which one is your favorite?

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    • Kitty says

      Thanks! I’m not sure I would say I have worked in diff genres. yes sometimes I write paranormal, sometimes contemporary, sometimes sci-fi ish, sometiems mythology, but it’s all “dark” and so in that way it’s really all the same genre, just manifesting differently. And I don’t have a favorite.

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  89. Janet says

    I am curious to how the title Escape Artist links to the characters/story for you, in your own head?
    I loved the book. Love Quill. Loved him before but now he has another dimension.

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    • Kitty says

      OH the meaning behind the title? I had to read that a couple of times. lol. okay… so The Con Artist is named that way because they are both sort of running a con on the other in different ways. So they are BOTH con artists, and that’s why they are perfect for each other. So I continued this theme with The Escape Artist. They BOTH escape captivity and so just like with The Con Artist, the title applies to both of them equally. Then there is one more book I will be writing in this world following on this theme. It’s going to be Logan’s book (the guy you met at the art show who bought 6 of Saskia’s paintings.)

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  90. Janet says

    Sorry I didn’t word that very well but you understood me. I wondered if it was something like that or a nod to quill being part of the story.
    Thanks for the insight x

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  97. Konnie says

    I’m in the middle of The Escape Artist now, and enjoying every minute of it! I just wanted to clear up one thing that’s been nagging at me… Marcus is bald, right? He seemed to start out bald, and then later in the art gallery scene in The Con Artist, it seemed to me like he had hair? Or was I mistaken? I’ve had trouble picturing Marcus ever since 🤔.

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    • Kitty says

      LOL no Marcus has never had hair. I mean I’m sure he had hair as a kid but as an adult male he’s never had hair. And I don’t tend to write sex scenes that involve “grabbing the guys hair” so you just made it up in your head LOL.

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  100. Rebecca E. says

    Is there any subject you won’t touch? Favorite subject to write about? Something you want to write about but haven’t yet?

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    • Kitty says

      obviously I won’t touch anything illegal (like underage or actual rape). I pretty much only write captive master/slave stories so that’s my fave subject lol. I also really like menage/group situations. Not sure about the last question.

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  101. Artemis Giote says

    Congratulations on your new release!!!!
    I was always wondering. Does writing energize or exhaust an author?

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    • Kitty says

      Hi Artemis. I love your name! Goddess of the hunt! Thank you. The answer is both. Initially up to about 2k words in a writing day it’s energizing, writing much more, especially for days on end gets exhausting.

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    • Kitty says

      I came up with the concept and found the art, but the general “look” and “feel”of things comes from the foundational branding that my cover artist has created for me.

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  109. BookLady says

    Congrats on the new release! It sounds awesome. Who are some authors that have influenced your writing?

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    • Kitty says

      I really don’t know how to answer that. There weren’t really “dark romance books” before I published Comfort Food in 2010. All my major influences that got me on the path to writing were like RL Stine Goosebumps books when I was 12. Development as a writer is such a long and organic process. Outside of that I can’t really pinpoint anything. There was Story of O and Nine and a Half weeks but it wasn’t really the writing that I was responding to. I was mad they didn’t end up together and felt the need to moralize about the “dirtybadwrong” relationship.

      I basically started writing a genre that didn’t really exist, and the market started to define it. So I can’t say “oh this author influenced me” or “that author influenced me” because I started writing seriously when I was 12. Like trying to write NOVELS back then. I was just a kid so so much of my development happened in a different head space and in totally different genres. So when I finally matured to the point as a writer to be ready to publish things, I had already gone through all my “fangirl phases” on like teenager books back in the day. I didn’t have any of that energy left and so by that point I was just doing my own thing telling the stories I felt I needed to tell.

      By the time I looked up and took notice of other authors writing these same types of books I write, I’d already published like five or six of them and my voice and style were set.

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  115. Lilah Chavez says

    I love this switch in roles. I can already see the strength in this woman . I can’t wait to read!

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    • Kitty says

      Thanks so much, Amanda! I think you’ll really love Ari (not that I know but, but everybody really loves Ari so I’m going with the odds here!)

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  125. Tracy Robertson says

    It sounds really intense! I don’t read a lot of romance novels but I love the dark, twisty aspects.

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  126. Jenny Schaber says

    This one has a great twist that I find brilliant. I’m glad your creativity is outside of the box. I’m looking forward to reading this.

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    • Kitty says

      Amy, I deleted your email. You don’t need to post your email. That is all in the rafflecopter. (and also I can see it from my end when you enter a comment. Entering it into a comment directly makes you a target for spam. So I deleted it to protect your privacy and inbox.)

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      • Amy Green says

        Thank you for always thinking of your readers! This is the perfect book to pair with your favorite classical music or singer Sarah Brightman. This fantastic, new read makes you want to dance the dance of love, and cry, “Encore!” Ballet has been a passion of mine since I was four so this was a must-get for me. I’m a huge admirer of ballerina Misty Copeland. ‘The Nutcracker’ is a work my whole family is especially fond of!

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  131. Susan Marina Brown Lane says

    Wow. All that and I’ve only read the excerpt! Looking forward to reading the entire book!

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