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Kate Seger

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How it was earned: Published work that helped Lantern reach its first one million story words.

Dark stories, sharp edges, and hearts worth fighting for.

Historical gothicDark FantasyParanormal Romance
39,666published words across 2 Lantern stories

Behind the byline

About the author

Kate Seger writes speculative and gothic fiction about impossible choices, dangerous loyalties, and the people who survive the end of their worlds by becoming something new.

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Author marginalia

The fun stuff.

The little things readers always want to know after the last page.

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Forever shelf

Books she’d rescue from the apocalypse

  • Gone with the Wind — for survival, impossible choices, and a heroine too stubborn to disappear
  • Wuthering Heights — for love sharpened into obsession and all the gothic vibes
  • A Game of Thrones — for dangerous loyalties, political knives, and consequences that kill
  • The White Queen — for women making power inside a history determined to underestimate them
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In the headphones

Writing soundtrack

  • Cinematic instrumentals
  • Character playlists
  • Rain against the windows
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Tiny author lore

Things to know

This margin is waiting for secrets.

On Lantern

Stories by Kate Seger

The Tolling Year by Kate Seger

Historical Gothic Fantasy

The Tolling Year

In 1348, Death meets the one enemy she cannot outlast: a courteous man who walked off a plague ship wearing flesh.

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