About

I make my living in high tech marketing, but I live to write fiction.

Ranting has a negative definition. It carries the connotation of a writer using excessive emotion and lack of research to make a point. That’s just what inspired me to play on my name with the word “rant”.

• I often find myself with too much emotion over petty frustrations. Life is an incoherent blend of the sublime and the mundane, but daily existence is ruled by the mundane.
• I don’t blog with the intention of providing well-researched essays. Sure, I try to do a quick Google check or jump over to Wikipedia, but mostly I just want to express my thoughts and find like minds out there in cyberspace.

I proudly admit that I rant.

Ranting also appeals to me because it evokes madness. What does it take for a rant to grow out of all proportion and lead to mental instability? That’s one of the ideas the fuels my fiction; of course I’m enthralled with ranting.

My psychological suspense short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

Psychological suspense (Ruth Rendell, Patricia Highsmith) is my favorite genre, but I also love to read literary fiction and often find psychological suspense threads in the work of my favorite writers, including Joyce Carol Oates.

On Sundays you’ll find me on the golf course at sunrise, but only during April – October. I can do without the frozen toes and swampy grass of late fall and winter when I prefer to hibernate with books, a fire, popcorn and a glass of wine or scotch.

Visit me on the web at: http://www.cathryngrant.com