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Katheryn Mackel's Bio:
Kathryn Mackel is a best-selling author and acclaimed screenwriter for Disney and Fox. She was on the screenwriting team for Left Behind: The Movie, and Frank Peretti's Hangman's Curse. She is the acclaimed author of The Surrogate and The Departed and resides in Boston, Massachusetts, with her husband.

FILM

        NIGHTMARE ACADEMY, script assignment for Namesake Entertainment, based on the Frank Peretti best-seller, 2003 (with Stan Foster)

        WALLY MCDOOGLE: MY LIFE AS A SMASHED BURRITO, animated script assignment for Namesake Entertainment, based on the Bill Myers book., 2002

        HANGMAN’S CURSE, script assignment for Namesake Entertainment, based on the Frank Peretti best-seller, 2001, (with Stan Foster), produced 2003.

        ROCK-A-BYTE BABY, original story, script, Showtime 2000

        LEFT BEHIND, production draft, Cloud Ten Pictures, 2000

        CAN OF WORMS, orignal story and script, produced, Disney Channel, 1999

        LEFT BEHIND, script assignment for Namesake Entertainment, 1997, based on the LaHaye-Jenkins best-seller

        SATYRDAY, writing assignment for Fox Family Films and Don Bluth, 1997

        MOTHER SHIP, spec script purchased by Fox Family Films, 1995

NOVELS

        As Kathryn Mackel

        THE HIDDEN, WestBow Press, 2006

        OUTRIDERS: Book One of the Birthright Project, WestBow Press, 2005

        THE DEPARTED, WestBow Press, 2005

        THE SURROGATE, WestBow Press, 2004

        As Kathy Mackel

        MADCAT, HarperCollins, 2005

        ALIEN IN A BOTTLE, HarperCollins, 2004

        FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH, HarperCollins, 2002

        EGGS IN ONE BASKET, HarperCollins, 2000

        CAN OF WORMS, Avon Books, 1999

        A SEASON OF COMEBACKS, G.P. Putnam, 1997

HONORS/RECOGNITIONS

Season of Comebacks nominated for Texas Bluebonnet Award, Hoosiers Young Readers Award, Maryland’s Reader’s Award, Iowa’s Young Reader’s Award, Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award, Georgia Children’s Books.

Can of Worms named a top SciFi kids’ novel of 1999 by The Voice of Youth Advocates and nominated for:  Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Award,  Florida’s Sunshine Reader’s Award, Pacific Northwest Librarian’s Association Award, Oklahoma Sequoyah Award, Young Reader’s Award (Northern ‘territories’), Rhode Island Children’s Book Award, New Mexico Battle of the Books.

Eggs in One Basket named a Children’s Choice 2001 by the International Reading Association.

Visit Katheryn's website at www.kathrynmackel.com