Award-winning Young Adult fantasy author
K L Kaine
Coming July 2nd
At five years old, Nisha was selected to be the Mortal Goddess – a vessel for the great Goddess Shantavi: worshipped by day, subjected to dark magic rituals by night… and never allowed to bleed. But on her twelfth birthday Nisha fled, taking with her the dark secret of the Immortal King. She has lived on the streets in hiding ever since. Until now, when little Ratna – the only family she has left – is chosen to be the next Mortal Goddess.
Award-winning Young Adult fantasy author Katja Kaine blends Asian-inspired worlds, feminist themes, and magical realism; signed to Penguin Random House.
Katja Kaine is a Yorkshire-based author who writes Young Adult Fantasy stories with powerful, immersive narratives that fuse Asian-inspired worldbuilding, feminist themes, and pacey, high-stakes adventures.
Her debut novel, Blood of Gods and Girls, was acquired by Penguin Random House in a major six-figure deal and is set for release in Summer 2026.
A lifelong storyteller, Katja’s writing has earned multiple accolades, including being selected for the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices and winning the Northern Writers’ Northern Promise Award. She is set to be one of the most exciting emerging voices in YA fantasy fiction today.
Quick Answers
I’m A Writer – Can You Help Me?
I can certainly try! Before I got my book deal I spent a lot of time working out what my process was, learning the craft of writing and packaging it all up in ways that could be used efficently by myself, and by others.
The culmination of all that is The Novel Factory. It’s an app that I built and that I use to write all my novels, and in includes a detailed guide to my process, where I go from concept, through plotting, character development and editing through to polishing a final manuscript.
Its free to try it out, and you can find out more here (https://www.novel-software.com/)
Where can I buy your book?
My debut novel is due to be released in Summer 2026. If you’d like to be on the list to find out when it becomes available for pre-order, please sign up to my mailing list. Don’t worry, I hate spam as much as anyone. Unless you mean the tinned kind, which is delicious.
How did you become a published author?
That’s a very long story, which you can read a lot more about here
https://www.novel-software.com/katja-kaine-how-i-got-my-agent/
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