Writing & Editorial
A selection of writing samples that reflect Kat Shaw’s experience across articles, marketing copy, book reviews, and creative writing.
Each sample reflects a different way words can inform, connect, and leave a lasting impression.
Social & Promotional Copy
Website Launch + Free Chapter Promotion
Book Cover Reveal
Promotional LinkedIn copy written to reveal the cover of Breaking Kylie while building excitement and encouraging audience engagement.
“You Can Look Now. Please React Responsibly.
After choosing sarcasm, creating unnecessary suspense, providing several wildly informative clues, and stretching this out with absolutely no shame, I can finally share the official cover of Breaking Kylie.
So here it is—the thing I could have shown you a week ago but deliberately did not.
What do you think?”
Promotional LinkedIn copy written to announce a new author website and encourage readers to download the first chapter of Breaking Kylie.
“The website is live, which means Kylie is officially on the internet. Brace yourselves!
After a lot of work behind the scenes, the new site is finally here...
Chapter One of Breaking Kylie is FREE.”
Trauma Awareness + Blog Promotion
Educational social media copy connecting Breaking Kylie with conversations around abuse, trauma, and healing.
“Abuse isn’t always easy to recognize, especially when you’re living inside the patterns that keep you questioning yourself.
Breaking Kylie is fiction.
Narcissistic abuse, emotional abuse, and childhood trauma are not.”
Newsletters & Articles
Narcissism: Pop Culture vs. Reality
“Narcissist” has become a catch-all for everything from selfishness to serious abuse. This article looks at what gets lost when narcissistic traits, NPD, harmful behavior, and abuse are treated as interchangeable, and why the behavior itself often tells us more than the label.
Narcissism in the Workplace:
What It Looks Like and Why It Matters
Narcissistic managers can affect far more than morale. Learn how narcissistic workplace behavior can shape disagreement, credit, evaluations, opportunities, employee voice, and what workers can do to protect themselves.
Creative Writing
Breaking Kylie
Young Adult Fiction by Kat Shaw
Seventeen-year-old Kylie Kline lives in a family where love comes with conditions, loyalty means
silence, and every attempt to defend herself is used against her. As the people she depends on are
pushed beyond her reach and the future she has been fighting for begins to disappear, Kylie must
hold on to who she knows she is before her family’s version of her becomes the only one left.
Book Reviews
What A Woman of No Importance
Reveals About the Power of Being
Overlooked
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell is not simply a story about espionage, as it is often portrayed.
It is what happens when someone the world underestimates becomes the person it depends on.
Looking for Alaska: Grief, Identity,
and Learning to Live Without Answers
Looking for Alaska is often remembered for its sharp humor, iconic quotes, and unforgettable characters, but reducing it to a typical YA coming-of-age story overlooks its emotional architecture.