Fantasy and Adventure Author Katie Abdou
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Kaitlyn (she/her), who goes by Katie among friends and family, lives in historical Massachusetts with her four fuzzy wee dragons: Binx, MacKenzie, Adso, and Sabrina. She is a writer, a costumer, a hiker, a baker, a wine-maker, and most importantly: the best Auntie in the World™.
She primarily writes historical Young Adult books, leaning into fantasy and adventure more than anything else. Her dream is for her books to be a safe place for teens and young adults to find representation and to understand the experiences of trauma, hardship, romance, and adventure through her characters within the safety of fiction. Her debut young adult novel, “A Prince Among Pirates” comes out summer of 2026 with Atheneum (Simon & Schuster) in North America, and HarperCollin’s Children’s Books in the United Kingdom. It follows the story of Kit Davenport, a young nobleman who runs away from his wedding and accidentally joins a pirate crew.
Katie has been vocal on social media about her experience with infertility, and was even invited by NBC to write a personal essay for the Today Show on the matter.
Katie is an active member of Moonlighters’ Ink—a writer’s collective local to her. It includes authors J.W. Elliot and J.B. Wadsworth. They originally met up in the town library, but eventually branched out on their own and continue their monthly meetings at home.
Katie is represented by Keir Alekseii of Azantian Literary Agency.
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A PRINCE AMONG PIRATES
A charming nobleman accidentally joins a pirate ship and falls for its debonair captain in this swashbuckling queer debut that’s perfect for fans of F.T. Lukens and Our Flag Means Death.
Kit Davenport is in trouble—not that this would surprise anyone who knows him. Headstrong, reckless, and utterly unsuited for the stodgy House of Lords, Kit has spent years dodging his father’s stern disapproval and delighting in clandestine rendezvous. But time is running out. With an arranged marriage looming and the confines of white wigs and stiff decorum closing in, Kit is desperate to escape a life that feels completely wrong for him.
His solution? A wildly impulsive decision that lands him aboard the Deliverance, a galleon captained by the infuriatingly charismatic Reggie Sharpe. With a devil-may-care attitude and a delicious grin, Captain Sharpe commands the waves with his crew of misfits . . . who all turn out to be pirates. Before Kit can say “wrong ship,” he’s trading ballroom etiquette for rum-soaked camaraderie, explosive gunfights, and, perhaps most excitingly, heart-stopping kisses under the stars.
But life at sea holds just as many secrets as treasures. And when Kit’s past catches up with him, he’ll have to decide who he truly wants to be: a gentleman, or a pirate?
Expected publication: June 16 2026
By Atheneum (Simon & Schuster) in North America
and HarperCollins Children’s Books in the UK
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