Kathryn Caskie was interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay. BookCast is sponsored by Virginia Commerce Bank through the Fairfax Library Foundation.

• Kathryn Caskie is a former magazine editor, TV producer, and copywriter for radio and TV commercials. She began writing romances when her family moved to a 200-year-old Quaker home in the Virginia Blue Ridge and Caskie became interested in 19th-century history.



• Her debut novel, Rules of Engagement, won the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award for Best Long Historical Romance Manuscript. Her novels, including Lady in Waiting, A Lady's Guide to Rakes, Love Is in the Heir and How to Seduce a Duke, can be checked out of the Fairfax County Public Library.



• Caskie began her career as an author while still a child. She wrote "dime novels" and sold them to her friends for 10 cents - the cost of a Good Humor strawberry popsicle at the time.



• Last summer, Caskie was the featured cover story in the July 2006 issue of Romantic Times Book Reviews. In April 2006, she was one of several romance writers featured in a Washington Post article on the genre.