Kate Whouley is the author of "Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words" the winner of the 2012 New England Book Award in Nonfiction, and an American Library Association "Best of the Best" for 2012. Her first book, "Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved," was a Book-of-the-Month Club "Memoir-of-the-Month" and a Book Sense Book-of-the-Year nominee. Both titles were selected for the online and print editions of the book group guide, "Reading Group Choices." Kate's personal essays have appeared in Obit magazine, Salon, the Cape Cod Times, Boston Globe, and the book-industry online journal, Shelf Awareness. An avocational flutist, Kate volunteers as a facilitator for the Cape and Islands Arts & Alzheimer's initiative.Kate lives and writes on Cape Cod, where she also works as an independent consultant in the book industry. Her current Cat-of-the-House is a former feral--a handsome tuxedo cat named Mojo Valentine.Photographer Copyright Credit Name: Anne Sweeney, 2011.