Kate Johnson

Kate Johnson, also known as Cat Marsters, is a British author who writes in the Paranormal and Speculative Romantic Novel genres. She is the author of the award-winning novel Max Seventeen.

Biography Kate Johnson was born in Leeds in 1982. Her family moved to Essex when she was two. Johnson lives in Essex and attended Joyce Frankland Academy.

She became a published author at the age of 23 with the sale of her first novella, She Who Dares, under her pen name Cat Marsters, and the following year sold her first book under her own name, I, Spy?.

She is the author of the Romantic Novel of the Year award-winning novel Max Seventeen. which won the Wisconsin Romance Writers' Silver Quill and Passionate Ink's Passionate Plume award.

Awards 2021 – Shortlisted Jackie Collins Romantic Thriller Romantic Novel of the Year Award for Death Comes To Cornwall 2021 – Shortlisted Holt Medallion Mainstream/Single Title for Not Your Cinderella 2018 – Shortlisted Paranormal or Speculative Romantic Novel of the Year Award for Max Seventeen: Firebrand 2017 – Winner Paranormal or Speculative Romantic Novel of the Year Award for Max Seventeen 2010 – Epic Award for Mad, Bad and Dangerous (as Cat Marsters) 2005 – Silver Quill Award for Almost Human (as Cat Marsters) 2005 – Passionate Plume Award for Almost Human (as Cat Marsters)