How I celebrate beauty in life
Signing launch team copies of Shadow Sister
I’m a writer and editor of non-fiction by training and trade, but fiction is my true literary love. After many years as a freelancer, I turned my hand to writing novels.
Today I write women’s fiction.
My two bestselling novels, Her Memory of Music and Shadow Sister, both feature a global accent—set mainly in Washington state, where I live, but with an additional setting in the developing world.
I write books for women who want stories about realistic relationships, people, and places, and that showcase beauty and redemption.
My books show God’s hand in tending to intricate matters of the heart as well as complicated matters of the world.
My ideal reader is the Christian woman who loves and leads her people—and loves to read fiction.
Where I find beauty
I believe that beauty, as found in the loveliness of the world and in people, is both an attribute of God and a servant of God because of how it opens our hearts to His presence.
Beauty is God’s signature.
Celebrating beauty amidst the brokenness means living a life that reflects a beautiful God, even when life is painful. To be filled by His beauty so that we can serve generously out of the overflow. Which means…
Book event with author Kim Galgano
- Finding beauty in the details of our days, even when the circumstances aren’t what we asked for
- Becoming better practiced at living out the beautiful invitation of Philippians 4:8
- Allowing beauty to minister to us, so that we can in turn minister to those God calls us to love and lead
It is my joy to help readers celebrate beauty in the midst of brokenness.
On the lookout at Lakes of Killarney, Ireland
Beauty amidst the brokenness
One way I find beauty in brokenness is to look for it in the little things.
Toward that end, I’m always on the lookout for lovely books, podcasts, people, news, and tips for healthy soul-care to share with you.
I love authentically relating with women. Few hours delight me more than those spent with a kindred spirit over endless cups of tea or a glass of wine. I wish you and I could do that now, but my prayer is that this space provides a taste of that kind of community.
Can’t wait to meet you!
“All women identify with unmet dreams. Her Memory of Music allows us to question our inner longings within the privacy of the pages of a book. There we identity with well-developed characters who grapple with their own disappointments while leading us toward the promise of hope and capability. In her remarkable debut novel, Katherine Scott Jones captures our universal ache for wholeness.”
Kim Galgano, Life Coach and author of The Chance to Choose
Why women’s fiction with a global accent
Petting a cheetah in South Africa
When I’m not writing, I love to travel. My experience traveling the world informs what I write.
I’ve visited more than thirty countries on five continents, over half of them as a family with my husband and children.
Travel exposes gritty truths that may not be as evident seen from afar.
It has expanded my circle of those I’m called to love and lead, at home and abroad. Because of what I’ve experienced, I’ve become:
- A voice for the voiceless, beginning in college writing letters for Amnesty International
- A trained, lay counselor, and caregiver in Stephen Ministry
- A participant on multiple relief service trips from Appalachia to Mexico, Romania to Eswatini
- An ambassador for World Vision, raising sponsors for dozens of children and thousands of dollars to fund clean water around the world
- A champion for International Justice Mission, fighting abuse of police power, slavery, and violence against women and children around the world
The gritty brokenness of our world not only compels me to write the truth about it, but to donate all profits from the sales of my books to International Justice Mission (IJM).
Why IJM?
For one thing, I know their work firsthand. I trust IJM absolutely to steward my funds faithfully, carry out its mission in the name of Jesus Christ, and best help vulnerable girls and women like those you meet in the pages of my books.
I also appreciate IJM’s attention to the many different components of trauma-informed care surrounding rescue and restoration, including its approach to working with local leaders and law enforcement, and its commitment to finding long-term solutions to this worldwide problem.
“A beautiful story of family, love and hope, Katherine Jones’ novel, Shadow Sister, is a refreshing and gratifying story of one woman’s journey through loss, heartache and redemption. Jones’ ability to create real characters and places will leave you wishing you could roam the streets of Bolivia and it will open your heart to the marginalized around the world and to those serving them. Woven throughout the pages are the beautiful ways of God’s grace and how universal love truly is. I was left inspired and encouraged and reminded how a well-lived story impacts lives in ways we may never know.”
Jamie Lapeyrolerie, INSPY Awards advisory board member
Five facts about me you may not know
With my grown-and-flown kids in Switzerland
- I’m the descendant of a dozen Mayflower passengers and scores of the earliest citizens of Jamestown and Williamsburg, Virginia. Famous forebears include Sir Francis Drake, Philip Delano, and Jacob Towne, the father of three daughters who were tried (and two executed) as witches during the Salem Witch Trials.
- As a Navy kid, I never lived more than three-and-a-half years in one place from coast to coast and overseas, but I’ve lived my entire adult life in the Seattle area.
- Though my own musical skills are modest, I love classical music. Seattle’s Classic King 98.1 is the one station I’ve had consistently dialed in on my kitchen and car radios for over thirty years.
- In my thirties, I played Sarah in a community theatre production of Beau Jest, the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.
- My husband and I were married eleven years before we had our first child, a son. Our second child, a daughter, arrived two-and-a-half years later, on a Leap Day.
Author Bio
With my publisher, Athena Dean Holtz
Katherine Scott Jones writes upmarket fiction for Christian women who want stories that showcase hope and redemption. Her complex characters and page-turning plots have drawn praise from bestselling novelists Lisa Wingate, Jolina Petersheim, and Heather Day Gilbert.
She believes that beauty, as found in the loveliness of the world and in people, is both an attribute of God and a servant of God because of how it opens our hearts to His presence.
She blogs at katherinescottjones.com, where she helps readers celebrate beauty in the midst of brokenness. Katherine lives with her husband near Seattle in their newly empty nest.