Photograph of Kate O'Donnell: a white plus size woman with long brown hair. She's wearing a black dress, black tights and green sneakers with velcro straps. She is sitting on mustard yellow staircase and smiling at the camera.

About

Kate O'Donnell is a YA author from Melbourne. She has worked as a bookseller, editor and in digital marketing but it's a fascination for people, music, the future, as well as small, unexplored places that inspires her writing. Her first novel Untidy Towns was published in 2017, and This One is Ours was released in October 2020.

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it’s mostly books and dogs and alleyways …

Snippets of a year so far. A year designated to action, to decisions, to taking risks and to dreaming of the future and to building a life. And that’s just in my tiny orbit. We lost our Boz this year, so everything changed. Gilbert came to live
File under ‘something I never knew I wanted’: a gorgeous cloth-bound covered copy of Untidy Towns by my extraordinary friend @madsenphd 🚲 🚲 Obviously the original jacket (thank you Astred!) still has my heart but we can have both.
Cat meets Not My Cat #BertOnTheGrid
Last year I read just over 30 books and even though I want to prioritise reading more this year, choosing to challenge myself to read 24 books that I already own makes me already nervous about how many of the shiny new books that are coming out I'll
recent / current / future 🔹Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life by Amy Key 🔹This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone 🔹Body Friend by Katherine Brabon #TheCoverWasBlue #BooksellerCliches #Reading
What’s my ‘roman empire’? Well, from time to time I think about how in France in 1968 there were more (see 1) young people going to uni than ever before so the Sorbonne made ugly suburban satellite campuses and how (see 2) President