Award-winning Young Adult fantasy author
K L Kaine
Blood of Gods and Girls
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 high-stakes adventures.
Katja Kaine writes young adult fantasy stories based in Asia-inspired settings that fuse blended-culture worldbuilding, feminist themes, and pacey, high-stakes adventures.
Katja is Singaporean German British and when not writing can be found roaming ancient forest with her mud-saturated Labrador, bending into pretzel yoga shapes and raging against the patriarchy.
She is also the creator of the best AI-Free book writing software for novelists, The Novel Factory.
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/
What’s the best AI-Free book writing software for aspiring novelists?
Great question! The Novel Factory is the best software for writers, in my opinion, and it is completely protected from AI interference or scraping.
I created this software to help me on my own journey, and it contains all the tools I use to write my novels – because it is the tool I use to write my novels.
As a professional author, I can’t risk my work being meddled with by AI, so I need to make sure I’m working in software which is completely free of AI tools.
It also contains a step-by-step guide to writing a novel, which is the process I use to write my novels, which I wrote down and then shared with other writers.
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