Kate Cary

Warriors Cary was a contributor to the pen name Erin Hunter from 2003 until her retirement from the writing team in 2024. Cary wrote Into the Wild, Fire and Ice, The Sight, The Last Hope and ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', among several other titles in the series. She stated that she becomes attached to the characters of the novels and usually feels distraught when writing death scenes. She also suggests that Loch Lomond offers her the inspiration for ThunderClan's territory in the novels. She also wrote a sequel titled Bloodline: Reckoning in 2007. Kirkus Reviews wrote that bad pacing and characterization hurt the story, but the tension is kept high by bluffs and mysteries. ==Biography==

Cary was born outside Birmingham on 4 November 1967. She wrote her first book when she was four years old, and has been enthusiastic about writing ever since. After leaving the university, she began sending her books to publishers, regularly being rejected. Eventually, she discovered a small publisher who hired her to write "how to" and activity books. In 2003, Cary sent a writing sample to Victoria Holmes at Working Partners. Holmes offered her a position writing for the Warriors series, where she would share the workload with Cherith Baldry and Holmes herself in order to keep up with the publishing schedule. Cary moved to Scotland in 1992, where she gave birth to her son, Joshua, in 1997. Cary returned to England in 2004, where she currently resides. == BlogClan ==

Cary created an unofficial website for the Warriors series called BlogClan. For several years, she regularly posted on the site. In recent years, she has taken a break from the site, and delegated site moderators as volunteers to run the site in her absence. ==References==