Young Adult Sci-Fi/Fantasy Author
About
Catherine Rhodes DeWitt began her career on the crew of feature films, documentaries and Austin City Limits, then worked as a video producer, freelance writer and screenplay consultant, before switching her focus to speculative fiction and children's books. She lives in Austin, Texas with her family.
Catherine is currently working on a Young Adult Sci-Fi novel set 200 years in the future on a moon of Jupiter.
Books
October 1, 2024: WLT Manuscript Contest Double-Finalist!
Catherine’s work-in-progress manuscript, Callisto was named a Writers’ League of Texas Manuscript Contest Double-Finalist in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Young Adult categories. Callisto will be featured in the WLT Inklist, a catalog of short pitches delivered to an extensive list of literary agents and book editors across the publishing community.
News
September 15, 2024: 10 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Author Recommended Books
At the recent ArmadilloCon SFFH Conference in Austin, numerous Sci-Fi/Fantasy authors and editors praised their favorite books in the genre. Some are new, others are old favorites they’ve read many times.
Here are 10 of the many SFF Author recommended books I plan to read or re-read this year:
1-THE MURDERBOT DIARIES, sci-fi novel series by Martha Wells 2-SERVICE MODEL, sci-fi novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky 3-THE LONG WAY TO A SMALL, ANGRY PLANET, Wayfarers series, by Becky Chambers 4-A HALF BUILT GARDEN, sci-fi novel by Ruthanna Emrys 5-TOMORROWING, sci-fi short story collection by Terry Bisson 6-THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE, alt-2020 timeline climate fiction novel by Sim Kern 7-FEVRE DREAM, vampire novel by George R. R. Martin 8-AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, YA fantasy novel by Sabaa Tahir 9-THE LEGENDBORN CYCLE, YA fantasy series by Tracy Deonn 10-FAEBOUND, new fantasy series by Saara El-Arifi
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May 4, 2024: SCBWI Mentor Award Winner
Catherine won the Austin Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Cynthia Leitich Smith Writing Mentor Award for novelists, based on the first 10 pages of her upcoming YA Sci-Fi novel, to be mentored by editor Madeline Smoot.
