As a child, Cathy Holton entertained her classmates with tales of a scaled creature that lived in her carport shed and a magical phone that hung in her family’s bathroom that could be used to summon an English butler (this was in North Carolina in the 1960’s and her family lived in married student housing). 

    She was what we call in the South, a “truth-stretcher.”  Sometime around third grade she learned that there were people out there who got paid for truth-stretching and those people were called writers.   At that moment, Cathy realized her true calling. 

    She is the author of Beach Trip, Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes and Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes, all published through Ballantine/Random House Books.  She lives in the mountains of Tennessee with her husband and three children, in a house that has both electricity and running water but, alas, no magical phone to summon an English butler.