K. L. Butters’s writing vibrates with believability from personal experience as rich and exciting as the tales told.  Butters learned to spin a yarn from a grandfather who spent his life at sea and in logging camps.  Strong interest in maritime and medieval history, defines the author’s eclectic studies, adventurous pursuits, skills, and life experiences that assure intimate understanding of many aspects of medieval life.  Some of Butters’s period skills include calligraphy, leather craft, use of herbs, precious oils and stones, wine making, archery, blue water sailing, crewing on square-rigged tall ships, and navigation.  A certified cetacean naturalist, trained in public speaking and communication, with field experience at sea, K. L. has free dived in diverse seas and backpacked cross-country in the most remote High Sierras.  In addition, the author has performed on early instruments and the Scottish small harp and Great Highland bagpipes.  K. L. enjoyed years of working with a destrier, a great horse trained to carry armored riders for jousting and swordplay.  The author’s writing quickens with understanding gained in real life and through roots in a family with continual presence in Scotland predating the Norman Conquest and in North America since 1652.  Butters’s unique perspective gives stories of medieval life vivid realism that pulls you irresistibly into the tales.

“I hope my stories can convey the great value we can glean from the extraordinary efforts of those who placed keeping their integrity before their lives and valiantly strove against incredible odds to maintain high ideals and unblemished honor. My portrayal of exemplary characters in the high Middle Ages is upheld by real accounts of ordinary and extraordinary individuals of the time. Those true-life experiences are what inspired me to write of both real and fictional persons whose choices and actions are nothing less than heroic.”  K. L. B.