Media Kit
Official Bio:
Cathy Yardley is a published and award-winning author, selling over 1.2M books over the last twenty-six years for publishers like St. Martin’s, Avon, and Harlequin in addition to her own indie titles. Her novel ROLE PLAYING was on the NYT’s list of best romances of 2023, as well as winning the American Library Association’s RUSA award for best romance. She writes fun, geeky, and diverse characters, believes firmly that life (and love!) don’t stop after you turn forty… and that sometimes, being a bit “wrong” is just right.
Possible Topics
Why do people seem to think romance stops at 40? After writing novels for 26 years, observations on the youth focus of romance novels (and why “later in life” romance is a growing, if underserved, area of publishing.)
Menopause and neurodivergence. Online, there is a growing trend of women realizing they’d been “masking” and missing their ADHD and other neurodivergent symptoms. Now, with menopause, they simply can’t… and they’re letting the world know they won’t be gaslit and they certainly won’t be silenced. Cathy writes books about the 40+ perimenopause and menopausal experience with diagnosed ADHD and Bipolar 2, giving humorous insight into the discourse.
Success can happen later. After years of writing, Cathy finally hit her stride in a book that wdashe felt would have no audience, but said “hell with it” and wrote it anyway. It became her most successful, winning awards and recognition as well as her best sales… as she hit fifty.
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