Cat Rector

@catrector.com

She/Her | Bi | 🇨🇦 | Author of Horror and Dark Fantasy, often staring 30+ers who fk up consistently WIP: A liminal space haunted house novel with daddy issues 🌈✨

If you're hoping to get a book from me at the Friday signing, now's your chance to preorder! This Cat only booked a carry-on so I'll be bringing a few books of my choosing! UNLESS you let me know what you want ahead of time!

Cat Rector@catrector.com · 7d ago

Can*Con is SO SOON. If you'll be attending, let me know! I'll be signing books on Friday and sitting on the Recovering from Author Burnout panel on Sunday! Otherwise you can find me roaming around from panel to panel and hunting down snacks. I need to start packing AHHHH

CanCon Schedule October 16-18 - Ottawa Ontario

Friday 16 - 7:30pm-8pm
Signing Books - Newbridge Room

Sunday 18 - 10am-10:50am 
Recovering From Author Burnout Panel
Shakers Room

Want to meet up? Toss me a DM 
so I know you’re attending!

Can*Con is SO SOON. If you'll be attending, let me know! I'll be signing books on Friday and sitting on the Recovering from Author Burnout panel on Sunday! Otherwise you can find me roaming around from panel to panel and hunting down snacks. I need to start packing AHHHH

CanCon Schedule October 16-18 - Ottawa Ontario

Friday 16 - 7:30pm-8pm
Signing Books - Newbridge Room

Sunday 18 - 10am-10:50am 
Recovering From Author Burnout Panel
Shakers Room

Want to meet up? Toss me a DM 
so I know you’re attending!

Can*Con is SO SOON. If you'll be attending, let me know! I'll be signing books on Friday and sitting on the Recovering from Author Burnout panel on Sunday! Otherwise you can find me roaming around from panel to panel and hunting down snacks. I need to start packing AHHHH

CanCon Schedule October 16-18 - Ottawa Ontario

Friday 16 - 7:30pm-8pm
Signing Books - Newbridge Room

Sunday 18 - 10am-10:50am 
Recovering From Author Burnout Panel
Shakers Room

Want to meet up? Toss me a DM 
so I know you’re attending!

HEY HALIFAX READERS Booktoberfest is THIS SATURDAY and we want to see you there! 70+ authors of all genres are selling and signing books, you can attend workshops and readings, and you can support your local library at the same time Bring a friend, tell your book club, come visit us!

A graphic of a dandelion in seed with the text:

Booktoberfest 2026. 70+ Nova Scotian authors and publishers. Free Writing workshops and readings. Halifax Central Library. Saturday October 3 11-3pm. A list of the 70+ local authors that are attending the event

HEY HALIFAX READERS Booktoberfest is THIS SATURDAY and we want to see you there! 70+ authors of all genres are selling and signing books, you can attend workshops and readings, and you can support your local library at the same time Bring a friend, tell your book club, come visit us!

A graphic of a dandelion in seed with the text:

Booktoberfest 2026. 70+ Nova Scotian authors and publishers. Free Writing workshops and readings. Halifax Central Library. Saturday October 3 11-3pm. A list of the 70+ local authors that are attending the event

This made me tear up. Thank you, Hel 💕 I hardly know what to say, because a review of my work like this is everything I could dream of. I aim to be an honest author, both in my writing and how I talk about my career, and it's amazing to know that it's working 😭

Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷@helynalc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#SPAAW 💙📚 If Cat Rector writes it, I read it. She first drew me in with her tragic, romantic, heartbreaking retelling of the Ragnarok from the viewpoint of Sigyn, Loki's wife, in The Goddess of Nothing At All and its sequel, but since then she wrote women's health and witchiness in the puritan times

The cover of The Goddess of Nothing At All by Cat Rector

Thank you so much for this 💕 GoNaa may be my debut and my oldest baby, but it's by far the most well-loved thing I've ever written and sits in a special place in my heart 💕

Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness@turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today's queer indie Pride book rec: The Goddess of Nothing at All, by @catrector.com. Want the Loki we were cheated out of in the Marvel cinematic universe? Check this book out. It's a chonker, but it's more than worth it!

The cover of The Goddess of Nothing At All, by Cat Rector.  A woman in Viking dress holds a bowl out with glowing runes on the side.

Good morning, happy Pride 🌈 Also happy "I don't keep track of these things and am now scrambling to make themed posts for June OOPS" to those who celebrate

Brain no braining, energy drink only propping up the body. Every time I get up to do something, I walk two steps, squint, and try to figure out what I got up to do. Tonight is going to be listening to The Caretaker and doing chores, I think 😂

I'm so mad that I've been resisting titling Coal Gets In Your Veins as Appalachian Gothic because it's not Appalachia ONLY TO FIND OUT IT IS and we're called the Appalachian Uplands My marketing life could have been so much easier and instead local education failed me 🤣

I'm changing all my ebooks over to D2D from Ingram, and I'm trying to see if I can complete all four moves before I need to drive spouse to the airport in 40 minutes 😂

I'm running a poll over on Instagram with a few basic questions for authors. I'm trying to gauge if people are feeling a particular gap the way I am. If you want to toss your answer into the fold, you can find it in my stories for another 11 hours or answer here! www.instagram.com/cat_rector/

Have you been an author for more than 2 years, yes or no?Has your relationship to your author career become more difficult in the last few years, yes or no?Do you feel a lack of resources for continued learning for experienced authors who are still looking to grow? Have you thought about quitting the industry in the last year, yes or no?

but what if i went to see these movies back to back but left enough time to go to the bookstore next door and maybe got myself a nice meal

The movie listings for Backrooms and Obsession

I'm almost done with All Hail Chaos and I'm going to be devastated to wait for the next book, but in the meantime, there's a Dutch version with an alternate cover with sprayed edges that I can buy on vacation in a few weeks 👀 (one is a preorder but I'll figure it out)

Long Live Evil's Dutch edition called Lang Leve Het Kwaad, with a very goth cover and rose sprayed edgesAll Hail Chaos' Dutch edition Lang Leve De Chaos, with a very green and black cover with snakes, and green roses as sprayed edges

About to jump into a zoom call so the local writers federation can tell me all their offerings and how the community works, so why am I nervous like this is a job interview 😂

Many thanks to the Seattle Times: “David Demchuk’s cult queer horror novel “RED X” has already earned the kind of reputation most horror writers spend decades chasing, and its June reissue is primed to introduce an entirely new audience to its unnerving power.” www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

6 upcoming thrillers and mysteries to read this summer

From a Stephen King-approved novel to the "Big Little Lies" sequel, here's a handful of mysteries and thrillers coming out this summer.

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Thank you! I'm both looking forward to it and a little nervous! It does mean getting lots of audiobook time in since everything is at least an hour away from home base 😂

I'm ramping up my local markets and book fairs this year and am about to become a person who has vehicle expenses on her yearly business taxes I've got five applications out and two acceptances, so fingers crossed!